Reed Hadley
Jun 25, 1911 — Dec 11, 1974 (63 years)
Petrolia, Clay County, Texas, USA
73 Movies
7 Series
Reed Hadley is a American actor. He appears in the film 'Leave Her to Heaven' as Dr. Mason.
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73Movies
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Reed Hadley
73 Movies
7 Series
Reed Hadley is a American actor. He appears in the film 'Leave Her to Heaven' as Dr. Mason.
63 R.I.P.
R.I.P.
73
Movies
7
Series
Movies
Dallas
1950
Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944
Young Dillinger
1965
The Razor's Edge
1946
Jungle Goddess
1948
Appointment for Love
1941
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
1938
Little Big Horn
1951
All in a Night's Work
1961
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
Flight Command
1940
A Bell for Adano
1945
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
Whistling in the Dark
1941
The Caribbean Mystery
1945
Captain from Castile
1947
Riders of the Range
1950
I'll Wait for You
1941
The Dark Corner
1946
The Baron of Arizona
1950
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939
Rimfire
1949
I Shot Jesse James
1949
Lady in a Jam
1942
Wilson
1944
Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939
The Bank Dick
1940
Last of the Wild Horses
1948
Four Jills in a Jeep
1944
Panhandle
1948
Sky Raiders
1941
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953
Sunset Murder Case
1938
Curse of the Fly
1965
Doll Face
1945
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942
Big House, U.S.A
1955
Bachelor Mother
1939
In the Meantime, Darling
1944
I Take This Woman
1940
Ski Patrol
1940
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
The Man from Montreal
1939
Motor Patrol
1950
If I'm Lucky
1946
Insurance Investigator
1951
The Brasher Doubloon
1947
Shock
1946
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Brain of Blood
Amir
1971
Film
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Hymie Weiss
1967
Film
Green Acres
Pilot
1969
TV
Curse of the Fly
Ike
1965
Film
Young Dillinger
Federal Agent Parker
1965
Film
Moro Witch Doctor
Robert Collins
1964
Film
All in a Night's Work
General Pettiford (uncredited)
1961
Film
Tightrope
Raymond Braddock
1960
TV
Bat Masterson
Raoul Cummings
1958
TV
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Reed Hadley still alive?
Reed Hadley passed away on December 11, 1974 at age 63.
What are the most famous roles of Reed Hadley?
Reed Hadley is best known for roles in Leave Her to Heaven, I Married a Witch, The Bank Dick.
How many movies has Reed Hadley been in?
Over a 36-year career (since 1938), Reed Hadley has appeared in 96 movies and 13 TV shows.
What was Reed Hadley's first movie?
The career of Reed Hadley began with Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938).
What is Reed Hadley's most recent movie or series?
Reed Hadley's most recent release is Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story, which premiered on December 31, 1971.
What TV shows has Reed Hadley appeared in?
On television, Reed Hadley has appeared in Perry Mason, Green Acres, Rawhide, Wagon Train.
Reed Hadley
1911-06-25 · Petrolia, Clay County, Texas, USA
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.Reed Hadley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.