Reed Hadley
Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reed Hadley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Jesse James (archive footage)
The Many Faces of Zorro
Self (archive footage)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Self (archive footage)
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
Narrator
Brain of Blood
Amir
The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
Narrator (voice)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Hymie Weiss
Curse of the Fly
Ike
Young Dillinger
Federal Agent Parker
Moro Witch Doctor
Robert Collins
All in a Night's Work
General Pettiford (uncredited)
Mobs, Inc.
Capt. John Braddock
Lincoln Speaks for Himself
Abraham Lincoln
Big House, U.S.A
Special FBI Agent James Madden
Return of the Dead
Bart Matthews
Highway Dragnet
Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle
Hazard House
Television Host
Woman They Almost Lynched
Bitterroot Bill Maris
Kansas Pacific
Bill Quantrill
The Half-Breed
Frank Crawford
Operation Ivy
Host / Narrator
Little Big Horn
Sgt. Maj. Peter Grierson
Insurance Investigator
Chuck Malone
Dallas
Wild Bill Hickok
The Killer That Stalked New York
Narrator (uncredited)
The Return of Jesse James
Frank James
A Modern Marriage
Dr. Donald Andrews
Motor Patrol
Detective Robert Flynn
The Baron of Arizona
John Griff
Riders of the Range
Clint Burrows
Red Desert
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Grand Canyon
Mitch Bennett
Rimfire
The Abilene Kid
I Shot Jesse James
Jesse James
He Walked by Night
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Bailing Out
Narrator
Last of the Wild Horses
Riley Morgan
Walk a Crooked Mile
Narrator (voice)
The Return of Wildfire
Marty Quinn
Jungle Goddess
Radio Newscaster (uncredited)
The Iron Curtain
Narrator (voice)
The Man from Texas
Marshall Gregg
Panhandle
Matt Garson
Captain from Castile
Juan Escudero (uncredited)
The Fabulous Texan
Jessup
Boomerang!
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Brasher Doubloon
Dr. Moss (uncredited)
13 Rue Madeleine
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Razor's Edge
Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited)
If I'm Lucky
Jed Conklin, Magonnagle's Campaign Manager
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Mike Valentine
The Dark Corner
Lt. Frank Reeves
Shock
District Attorney O'Neill
Doll Face
Flo Hartman
Leave Her to Heaven
Dr. Mason
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
Tactics Colonel
The Last Bomb
Narrator
The House on 92nd Street
Narrator (voice)
A Bell for Adano
Cmdr. Robertson
The Caribbean Mystery
Dr. Rene Marcel
Circumstantial Evidence
Prosecutor
Rainbow Island
High Priest Kahuna
In the Meantime, Darling
Maj. Phillips
Wilson
White House Usher (uncredited)
Home in Indiana
Narrator in Opening Scene (uncredited)
Roger Touhy, Gangster
FBI Agent Boyden
Four Jills in a Jeep
Fighter Pilot Dispatcher on Loudspeaker (uncredited)
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
First Dive-bomber Pilot
Happy Land
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Guadalcanal Diary
War Correspondent/ Narrator
Wintertime
Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
Lady in a Jam
Man at Auction (uncredited)
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Naval Officer
Jail House Blues
Boston
Arizona Terrors
Jack Halliday aka Don Pedro de Berendo
Road Agent
Henchman Shayne
Appointment for Love
Ferguson (uncredited)
Sea Raiders
Carl Tonjes
Whistling in the Dark
Beau Smith
I'll Wait for You
Tony Berolli
Ziegfeld Girl
Geoffrey's Friend in Audience (uncredited)
Sky Raiders
Caddens
Adventures of Captain Marvel
Rahman Bar
Flight Command
Admiral's Aide (uncredited)
The Bank Dick
Francois
Meet the Wildcat
Basso--Henchman
Ski Patrol
Ivan Dubroski
I Take This Woman
Bob Hampton
Zorro's Fighting Legion
Don Diego Vega / Zorro
The Man from Montreal
Ross Montgomery, aka L. R. Rawlins
Bachelor Mother
Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited)
Stronger Than Desire
Flagg's Party Guest (uncredited)
Calling Dr. Kildare
Tom Crandell
Sergeant Madden
Lawyer
Sunset Murder Case
Oliver Helton
Female Fugitive
Bruce Dunning
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Ralph Mortimer