Reed Hadley


Reed Hadley was an American film, television, and radio actor.

Career

Hadley was born in Petrolia, Texas. Before moving to Hollywood, he acted in Hamlet on stage in New York City, a last-minute substitute for the scheduled actor who failed to appear to portray Fortinbras.

Radio

In the 1950s, Hadley played Chad Remington on Frontier Town. He also was one of the actors who portrayed cowboy hero Red Ryder on the Red Ryder series during the 1940s.
On September 16, 1950, Hadley was on Tales of the Texas Rangers episode "Candy Man".

Television

Hadley starred in two television series, Racket Squad, as Captain Braddock, and The Public Defender, as Bart Matthews, a fictional attorney for the indigent. He also was a guest star on such programs as the religion anthology series, Crossroads, and Rory Calhoun's CBS Western series, The Texan. In 1959, he played Sheriff Ben Tildy in The Texan episode "The Sheriff of Boot Hill" and was pitted against bad guys Denver Pyle cast as saloon keeper Joe Lufton and his gunslinging partner Charles Maxwell cast as Luke Stricker. He also guest-starred in Sea Hunt season four, episode four, "Vital Error". In 1958, he played the rapacious mining baron Mort Galvin in season one's "The Sacramento Story" on Wagon Train.

Film

Throughout his 35-year career in film, Hadley was cast as both a villain and a hero of the law, in such movies as The Baron of Arizona, The Half-Breed, Highway Dragnet, and Big House, U.S.A., and narrated a number of documentaries. In films, he starred as Zorro in the 1939 serial Zorro's Fighting Legion.
Hadley was the narrator of several Department of Defense films: Operation Ivy, about the first hydrogen bomb test, Ivy Mike; Military Participation on Tumbler/Snapper; Military Participation on Buster Jangle; The B-47 ; and Operation Upshot–Knothole, all of which were produced by Lookout Mountain Studios. The films were originally intended for internal military use, but have been "sanitized" and declassified, and are now available to the public.
In 1945, he narrated The Nazi Plan, a documentary film using captured propaganda and newsreel footage to dramatize the Nazis' rise to power and was used by the prosecution in the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. He served as the narrator on various Hollywood films, including House on 92nd Street, Boomerang, and The Iron Curtain.

Personal life and death

Hadley and his wife, Helen, had one son, Dale. On December 11, 1974, Hadley died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. He was 63. He was survived by his wife and son.

Recognition

Hadley has a star at 6553 Hollywood Boulevard in the Television section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.

Filmography

Film

Hollywood Stadium Mystery - Ralph Mortimer Female Fugitive - Bruce DunningThe Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok - Jim BlakelySunset Murder Case - Oliver HeltonOrphans of the Street - MillerSergeant Madden - Lawyer Calling Dr. Kildare - Tom CrandellBachelor Mother - Polly's First Dance Partner Stronger Than Desire - Flagg's Party Guest Man from Montreal - Ross Montgomery aka L. R. RawlinsZorro's Fighting Legion - Don Diego Vega / ZorroI Take This Woman - Bob HamptonSki Patrol - Ivan DubroskiMeet the Wildcat - Basso—HenchmanThe Bank Dick - FrancoisFlight Command - Admiral's Aide Adventures of Captain Marvel - Rahman Bar Sky Raiders - Caddens - HenchmanThe Flame of New Orleans - Party Guest Ziegfeld Girl - Geoffrey's Friend in Audience I'll Wait for You - Tony BerolliWhistling in the Dark - Beau SmithUnfinished Business - Party Guest Sea Raiders - Carl TonjesAppointment for Love - Ferguson Look Who's Laughing - Master of Ceremonies Road Agent - Henchman ShayneArizona Terrors - Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de BerendoThe Bugle Sounds - Court-Martial Judge Jail House Blues - BostonJuke Box Jenny - Brother WicksThe Mystery of Marie Roget - Naval OfficerLady in a Jam - Man Now, Voyager - Henry Montague I Married a Witch - Young Man Wintertime - Radio Announcer Guadalcanal Diary - War Correspondent / NarratorHappy Land - Off-Screen Narrator Four Jills in a Jeep - Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker Buffalo Bill - Narrator Pin Up Girl - Radio Announcer The Eve of St. Mark - Radio Announcer Roger Touhy, Gangster - FBI Agent BoydenHome in Indiana - Narrator in Opening Scene Wing and a Prayer - Cmdr. O'DonnellWislon - White House Usher Rainbow Island - High Priest KahunaIn the Meantime, Darling - Maj. PhillipsCircumstantial Evidence - ProsecutorDiamond Horseshoe - Intern Don Juan Quilligan - Announcer of Pearl Harbor Attack Captain Eddie - News Announcer A Bell for Adano - Cmdr. RobertsonThe Caribbean Mystery - Dr. Rene MarcelHouse on 92nd Street - Narrator Leave Her to Heaven - Dr. MasonDoll Face - Flo HartmanThe Last Bomb - NarratorShock - District Attorney O'NeillThe Dark Corner - Police Lt. Frank ReevesIt Shouldn't Happen to a Dog - Mike ValentineIf I'm Lucky - Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign ManagerThe Razor's Edge - Party Waiter 13 Rue Madeleine - Narrator Boomerang - Off-Screen Narrator The Brasher Doubloon - Dr. Moss Louisiana The Fabulous Texan - JessupT-Men - Narrator Captain from Castile - Juan Escudero Panhandle - Matt GarsonThe Man from Texas - Marshal GreggThe Iron Curtain - Narrator Canon City - Narrator A Southern Yankee - Fred MunseyThe Return of Wildfire - Marty QuinnJungle Goddess - Radio Newscaster Walk a Crooked Mile - Narrator He Walked by Night - Narrator Last of the Wild Horses - Riley MorganI Shot Jesse James - Jesse JamesRimfire - The Abilene KidGrand Canyon - Mitch BennettApache Chief - Narrator Red Desert - Narrator Riders of the Range - Clint BurrowsThe Baron of Arizona - GriffMotor Patrol - Detective Robert FlynnA Modern Marriage - Dr. Donald AndrewsThe Return of Jesse James - Frank JamesThe Killer That Stalked New York - Narrator Dallas - Wild Bill HickokInsurance Investigator - Chuck MaloneLittle Big Horn - Sgt. Maj. Peter GriersonThe Wild Blue Yonder - Commanding Officer The Half-Breed - Frank CrawfordSon of Ali Baba - Minor Role Kansas Pacific - Bill QuantrillWoman They Almost Lynched - Bitterroot Bill MarisHighway Dragnet - Det. Lt. Joe White EagleBig House, U.S.A. - FBI Special Agent James MaddenAll in a Night's Work - General Pettiford Gunfight at Comanche Creek - Narrator Moro Witch Doctor - Robert CollinsYoung Dillinger - Federal Agent ParkerThe St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Hymie WeissThe Fabulous Bastard from Chicago - Narrator Brain of Blood - Amir

Television