Reed Hadley
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Reed Hadley (June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974) was an American movie, television and radio actor.
Reed Hadley was born Reed Herring in Petrolia in Clay County near Wichita Falls, Texas, to Bert Herring, an oil well driller, and his wife Minnie. Hadley had one sister, Bess Brenner. He was reared in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Bennett High School in Buffalo and was involved in local theater with the Studio Arena Theater. Hadley and his wife, Helen, had one son, Dale. Before moving to Hollywood, he acted in Hamlet on stage in New York City.
Throughout his thirty-five-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 (1950), The Half-Breed (1952), Highway Dragnet (1954) and Big House, USA (1955). With his bass voice, he narrated a number of documentaries. He starred in two television series, Racket Squad (1950–1953) as Captain Braddock, and The Public Defender (1954–1955) as Bart Matthews, a fictional attorney for the indigent. Hadley also worked on the Red Ryder radio show during the 1940s, being the first actor to portray the title character. In films, among other things, he starred as Zorro in the 1939 serial Zorro's Fighting Legion. He is immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his television work.
He was the voice of cowboy hero Red Ryder on radio and 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"; 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", edited, and de-classified, and are now available to the public. During the period he narrated these films, Hadley held a Top Secret security clearance.
Hadley also served as the narrator on various Hollywood films, including House on 92nd Street (1945), Call Northside 777 (1947) and Boomerang (1947).
He died at age 63 on December 11, 1974, in Los Angeles, California, of a heart attack. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
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Known for
Perry Mason
Medical Examiner
Wagon Train
Mort Galvin
Rawhide
Clement
Green Acres
Pilot
Panhandle
Matt Garson
Bat Masterson
Raoul Cummings
The Texan
The Texan
Wild Jack Tobin
Sea Raiders
Carl Tonjes
Happy Land
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Shock
District Attorney O'Neill
Sea Hunt
Bachelor Mother
Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited)
Wilson
White House Usher (uncredited)
Circumstantial Evidence
Prosecutor
Kansas Pacific
Bill Quantrill
Lady in a Jam
Man at Auction (uncredited)
Wintertime
Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
The Dark Corner
Lt. Frank Reeves
Big House, U.S.A
Special FBI Agent James Madden
The Fabulous Texan
Jessup
Cavalcade of America
Boomerang!
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Baron of Arizona
John Griff
Guadalcanal Diary
War Correspondent/ Narrator
Navy Log
Public Defender
Bart Matthews
Whistling in the Dark
Beau Smith
A Bell for Adano
Cmdr. Robertson
Stronger Than Desire
Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited)
Doll Face
Flo Hartman
Jungle Goddess
Radio Newscaster (uncredited)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Self (archive footage)
Red Desert
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Killer That Stalked New York
Narrator (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
Adventures of Captain Marvel
Rahman Bar
Highway Dragnet
Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle
All in a Night's Work
General Pettiford (uncredited)
Leave Her to Heaven
Dr. Mason
I Shot Jesse James
Jesse James
Racket Squad
Rainbow Island
High Priest Kahuna
Arizona Terrors
Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo
I Take This Woman
Bob Hampton
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Hymie Weiss
Walk a Crooked Mile
Narrator (voice)
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Naval Officer
Captain from Castile
Juan Escudero (uncredited)
Rimfire
The Abilene Kid
Hazard House
Television Host
Grand Canyon
Mitch Bennett
Calling Dr. Kildare
Tom Crandell
Sky Raiders
Caddens
The Razor's Edge
Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited)
The Return of Jesse James
Frank James
13 Rue Madeleine
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
Narrator
Ziegfeld Girl
Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (uncredited)
Dallas
Wild Bill Hickok
Hondo
Curse of the Fly
Ike
The Brasher Doubloon
Dr. Moss (uncredited)
Meet the Wildcat
Basso--Henchman
Insurance Investigator
Chuck Malone
He Walked by Night
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
Narrator (voice)
The Half-Breed
Frank Crawford
Four Jills in a Jeep
Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited)
The Man from Montreal
Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins
Tightrope
Raymond Braddock
The Man from Texas
Marshall Gregg
Ski Patrol
Ivan Dubroski
Female Fugitive
Bruce Dunning
Sunset Murder Case
Oliver Helton
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Jesse James (archive footage)
Appointment for Love
Ferguson (uncredited)
In the Meantime, Darling
Maj. Phillips
The Return of Wildfire
Marty Quinn
The House on 92nd Street
Narrator (voice)
Riders of the Range
Clint Burrows
The Many Faces of Zorro
Archive Footage
I'll Wait for You
Tony Berolli
Young Dillinger
Federal Agent Parker
If I'm Lucky
Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager
Bailing Out
Narrator
Home in Indiana
Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited)
Brain of Blood
Amir
The Caribbean Mystery
Dr. Rene Marcel
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Mike Valentine
The Bank Dick
Francois
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Ralph Mortimer
Return of the Dead
Bart Matthews
Roger Touhy, Gangster
FBI Agent Boyden
Last of the Wild Horses
Riley Morgan
Road Agent
Henchman Shayne
Moro Witch Doctor
Robert Collins
Zorro's Fighting Legion
Don Diego Vega / Zorro
Jail House Blues
Boston
Mobs, Inc.
Capt. John Braddock
Little Big Horn
Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson
Lincoln Speaks for Himself
Abraham Lincoln
The Last Bomb
Narrator
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
First Dive-bomber Pilot
Sergeant Madden
Lawyer
Flight Command
Admiral's Aide (uncredited)
A Modern Marriage
Dr. Donald Andrews
Woman They Almost Lynched
Bitterroot Bill Maris
Motor Patrol
Detective Robert Flynn
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
Tactics Colonel
Operation Ivy
Host / Narrator