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Reed Hadley (born Reed Herring, June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974) was an American film, television and radio actor.

Reed Hadley
Reed Hadley in Kansas Pacific (1953)
Born	Reed Herring (1911-06-25)June 25, 1911 Petrolia, Texas, U.S.
Died	December 11, 1974(1974-12-11) (aged 63) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Burial place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1938–1971
Spouse	Helen Hadley (m. 19??)
Children	1

Early life

Hadley was born in Petrolia, Texas,[1] to Bert Herring, an oil well driller, and his wife Minnie. Hadley had one sister, Bess Brenner. He was reared in Buffalo, New York, where he attended and graduated from Bennett High School.

Career

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.[2]

Radio

In the 1950s, Hadley played Chad Remington on Frontier Town.[3] He also was one of the actors who portrayed cowboy hero Red Ryder on the Red Ryder series during the 1940s.[4]

On September 16, 1950, Hadley was on Tales of the Texas Rangers episode Candy Man.[5]

Television

Hadley 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. He also was a guest star on such programs as the religion anthology series, Crossroads, and on Rory Calhoun's CBS western series, The Texan. In 1959, he played fictitious Sheriff Ben Tildy in "The Sheriff of Boot Hill", with Denver Pyle cast as Joe Lufton. He also guest starred in Sea Hunt Season 4/Episode 4;Vital Error. In 1958 he played a crooked businessman/millionaire in an episode of 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 (1950), The Half-Breed (1952), Highway Dragnet (1954) and Big House, U.S.A. (1955), 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,[6] about the first hydrogen bomb test, Ivy Mike, "Military Participation on Tumbler/Snapper"; "Military Participation on Buster Jangle"; "The B-47" (T.F. 1–4727); 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 de-classified, and are now available to the public.[7]

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.[8] He served as the narrator on various Hollywood films, including House on 92nd Street (1945), Boomerang (1947),[9] and The Iron Curtain (1948).

Personal life

Hadley and his wife, Helen, had one son, Dale.[10]

Death

On December 11, 1974, Hadley died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. He was 63.[1] He was survived by his wife and son.[10]

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.[11]

Filmography

Film

Television

Other works

Radio

Year	Program	Episode/source
1942-44	Red Ryder
1950	Tales of the Texas Rangers	Candy Man
1952	Stars in the Air	"On Borrowed Time"[16]

See also

References

External links

• Reed Hadley at IMDb
• Reed Hadley at the Internet Broadway Database (as Reed Herring)
• Video Detective filmography

На других языках

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[ru] Хэдли, Рид

Рид Хэдли (англ. Reed Hadley), имя при рождении Рид Берт Херринг (англ. Reed Bert Herring) (25 июня 1911 года — 11 декабря 1974 года) — американский актёр радио, кино и телевидения, более всего известный своими работами в фильмах 1940-х годов.

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