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.
99 movies · 13 shows
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002·5.8
The Many Faces of Zorro
2000·4.4
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1995·7.2
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
1971·6.0
Brain of Blood
1971·2.9
The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
1969·4.2
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967·6.3
Curse of the Fly
1965·5.4
Young Dillinger
1965·7.3
Moro Witch Doctor
1964·6.5
The Upper Chamber
1963·0.0
All in a Night's Work
1961·6.0
Mobs, Inc.
1956·7.0
Lincoln Speaks for Himself
1955·0.0
Big House, U.S.A
1955·6.6
Return of the Dead
1954·5.0
Highway Dragnet
1954·5.7
Hazard House
1954·0.0
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953·6.6
Kansas Pacific
1953·5.0
The Half-Breed
1952·7.0
Operation Ivy
1952·3.5
Little Big Horn
1951·6.1
Insurance Investigator
1951·5.7
Dallas
1950·6.4
The Killer That Stalked New York
1950·6.2
The Return of Jesse James
1950·6.0
A Modern Marriage
1950·7.0
Motor Patrol
1950·7.0
The Baron of Arizona
1950·6.7
Riders of the Range
1950·6.3
Red Desert
1949·7.0
Grand Canyon
1949·10.0
Rimfire
1949·5.3
I Shot Jesse James
1949·6.2
He Walked by Night
1949·6.7
Bailing Out
1949·0.0
Last of the Wild Horses
1948·3.3
Walk a Crooked Mile
1948·6.2
Jungle Goddess
1948·2.9
The Return of Wildfire
1948·8.0
The Iron Curtain
1948·6.0
The Man from Texas
1948·8.0
Panhandle
1948·5.8
Captain from Castile
1947·7.2
The Fabulous Texan
1947·6.5
Boomerang!
1947·7.0
The Brasher Doubloon
1947·6.0
13 Rue Madeleine
1947·6.1
The Razor's Edge
1946·6.9
If I'm Lucky
1946·6.7
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1946·5.8
The Dark Corner
1946·6.6
Shock
1946·5.9
Doll Face
1945·4.6
Leave Her to Heaven
1945·7.4
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
1945·0.0
The Last Bomb
1945·6.2
The House on 92nd Street
1945·6.6
A Bell for Adano
1945·6.0
The Caribbean Mystery
1945·6.7
Circumstantial Evidence
1945·5.2
Rainbow Island
1944·7.5
In the Meantime, Darling
1944·6.8
Wilson
1944·5.6
Home in Indiana
1944·5.9
Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944·7.0
Four Jills in a Jeep
1944·6.8
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
1944·0.0
Happy Land
1943·7.1
Guadalcanal Diary
1943·5.6
Wintertime
1943·5.3
I Married a Witch
1942·6.9
Lady in a Jam
1942·5.6
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942·5.7
Jail House Blues
1942·9.0
Arizona Terrors
1942·7.0
Road Agent
1941·7.0
Appointment for Love
1941·5.8
Sea Raiders
1941·6.5
Whistling in the Dark
1941·5.9
I'll Wait for You
1941·6.8
Ziegfeld Girl
1941·6.7
Sky Raiders
1941·7.3
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941·6.4
Flight Command
1940·5.9
The Bank Dick
1940·6.5
Meet the Wildcat
1940·9.0
Ski Patrol
1940·4.6
I Take This Woman
1940·5.8
Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939·5.4
The Man from Montreal
1939·4.9
Stronger Than Desire
1939·5.5
Bachelor Mother
1939·7.2
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939·6.6
Sergeant Madden
1939·7.5
Sunset Murder Case
1938·3.7
Female Fugitive
1938·7.0
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
1938·6.3