Reed Hadley

Actor

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Also Known As

Reed Herring

Birth Place

Petrolia, Texas, USA

Born

June 25, 1911

Died

December 11, 1974

Biography

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Reed Hadley was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Hadley began his acting career with roles in such films as "Female Fugitive" (1938), the western "The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" (1938) with Gordon Elliott and "Calling Dr. Kildare" (1939). He also appeared in "Zorro's Fighting Legion" (1939), the Hedy Lamarr dramatic adaptation "I Take This Woman" (1940) and...

Filmography

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Brain of Blood (1971)

The Fabulous Bastard From Chicago (1969)

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)

Young Dillinger (1965)

Federal Agent Parker

Moro Witch Doctor (1964)

Frigid Wife (1962)

Dr. Donald Andrews

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I Shot Jesse James (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Bob Ford A Free Man

I Shot Jesse James (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Open, James Gang Foiled

Biography

Reed Hadley was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Hadley began his acting career with roles in such films as "Female Fugitive" (1938), the western "The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" (1938) with Gordon Elliott and "Calling Dr. Kildare" (1939). He also appeared in "Zorro's Fighting Legion" (1939), the Hedy Lamarr dramatic adaptation "I Take This Woman" (1940) and the comedy "The Bank Dick" (1940) with W C Fields. He continued to act in productions like the musical comedy "Rainbow Island" (1944) with Dorothy Lamour, "Roger Touhy, Gangster" (1944) and the action film "Wing and a Prayer" (1944) with Don Ameche. He also appeared in "Diamond Horseshoe" (1945) with Betty Grable. In the latter half of his career, he continued to act in the Rod Cameron western "Panhandle" (1948), "Walk a Crooked Mile" (1948) with Louis Hayward and the Preston Foster western "I Shot Jesse James" (1949). He also appeared in "Rimfire" (1949). Hadley more recently acted in the Kent Taylor horror flick "Brain of Blood" (1971). Hadley passed away in December 1974 at the age of 63.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Brain of Blood (1971)

The Fabulous Bastard From Chicago (1969)

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)

Young Dillinger (1965)

Federal Agent Parker

Moro Witch Doctor (1964)

Frigid Wife (1962)

Dr. Donald Andrews

Big House, U.S.A. (1955)

Highway Dragnet (1954)

Lt. Joe White Eagle

Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)

Bitterroot Bill Maris

Kansas Pacific (1953)

William Quantrill

The Half-Breed (1952)

Insurance Investigator (1951)

Little Big Horn (1951)

Sgt. Maj. [Peter] Grierson

The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)

Commanding officer

The Return of Jesse James (1950)

Frank James [also known as Ben Woodson]

The Baron of Arizona (1950)

Wild Bill Hickok

Motor Patrol (1950)

A Modern Marriage (1950)

Dr. Donald Andrews

Riders of the Range (1949)

I Shot Jesse James (1949)

Jesse James [also known as Tom Howard]

The Abilene Kid

Grand Canyon (1949)

The Return of Wildfire (1948)

Captain from Castile (1948)

The Iron Curtain (1948)

Canon City (1948)

Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)

A Southern Yankee (1948)

Man from Texas (1948)

He Walked by Night (1948)

Last of the Wild Horses (1948)

Panhandle (1948)

Louisiana (1947)

13 Rue Madeleine (1947)

The Fabulous Texan (1947)

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)

Leave Her to Heaven (1946)

The Dark Corner (1946)

Lt. Frank Reeves

If I'm Lucky (1946)

The Caribbean Mystery (1945)

Dr. Rene Marcel

Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (1945)

The House on 92nd Street (1945)

A Bell for Adano (1945)

Commander Robertson

Doll Face (1945)

Circumstantial Evidence (1945)

Wing and a Prayer (1944)

Cmdr. O'Donnell

The Eve of St. Mark (1944)

Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)

F.B.I. agent Boyden

Rainbow Island (1944)

High Priest Kahuna

In the Meantime, Darling (1944)

Guadalcanal Diary (1943)

Juke Box Jenny (1942)

Now, Voyager (1942)

I Married a Witch (1942)

Lady in a Jam (1942)

The Bugle Sounds (1942)

Jail House Blues (1942)

The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)

Arizona Terrors (1942)

Jack Halliday, alias Don Pedro de Berendo

Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

Man in audience

Appointment for Love (1941)

The Sunset Murder Case (1941)

[Oliver] Halton

Look Who's Laughing (1941)

Master of ceremonies

The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

Unfinished Business (1941)

Whistling in the Dark (1941)

Road Agent (1941)

I'll Wait for You (1941)

Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

Sky Raiders (1941)

The Bank Dick (1940)

I Take This Woman (1940)

Ski Patrol (1940)

Flight Command (1940)

Meet the Wildcat (1940)

Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)

Stronger Than Desire (1939)

Sergeant Madden (1939)

Man from Montreal (1939)

Ross Montgomery

Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)

Orphans of the Street (1938)

Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938)

Female Fugitive (1938)

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938)

Cast (Short)

Hazard House (1952)

Jack Pot (1940)

Life Events

Videos

I Shot Jesse James (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Bob Ford A Free Man Following a display of kindness from Jesse (Reed Hadley) and Zee (Barbara Woodell), Bob Ford (John Ireland) finally pulls the trigger and ex-newsman writer-director Sam Fuller turns to headlines, in I Shot Jesse James, 1949.

I Shot Jesse James (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Open, James Gang Foiled Newsy credits and the first-ever bank alarm-bell as Jesse (Reed Hadley) and Bob Ford (John Ireland) do their business in the opening scene from writer-director and former journalist Samuel Fuller's first film, I Shot Jesee James, 1949.

I Shot Jesse James (1949) -- (Movie Clip) ...But Them Fords! Saintly, Lincolnesque Jesse (Reed Hadley) tolerates wife Zee (Barbara Woodell) and her distrust of the Fords, in writer-director Samuel Fuller's first film, I Shot Jesse James, 1949.

I Shot Jesse James (1949) -- (Movie Clip) There's My Back Terrific tension in an improbably intimate scene as the bathing Jesse (Reed Hadley) gives a gift to Bob Ford (John Ireland), who considers murder for bounty, twice, in writer-director Sam Fuller's I Shot Jesse James, 1949.

He Walked By Night (1948) -- (Movie Clip) This Is Los Angeles Narration by Reed Hadley introduces Los Angeles to the world in the true-crime thriller He Walked By Night, 1948, directed by Alfred Werker, from a script by Crane Wilbur and John C. Higgins.

Kansas Pacific (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Just An Ordinary Fight Kansas, 1860, Sterling Hayden as undercover U.S. Army officer Nelson has just arrived to oversee railroad construction when he meets Reed Hadley as Quantrill (About twice the age the historic figure lived to become), who in fact is an agent for the incipient Confederacy, joining in fisticuffs as civic duty, his new associate Barton MacLane arriving, Harry Shannon, Eve Miller and Irving Bacon in support, in Allied Artists’ Kansas Pacific, 1953.

Boomerang! (1947) -- (Movie Clip) It's All Connecticut Reed Hadley narrates, following the credits, the terse opening of what director Elia Kazan considered his breakthrough film, Boomerang!, 1947, starring Dana Andrews, Lee J. Cobb and Arthur Kennedy.

Boomerang! (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Police Still Baffled Lt. White (Karl Malden) with murder witnesses in church for the viewing of the slain priest, his crusty boss Robinson (Lee J. Cobb) intervening, reporter Dave (Sam Levene) attempting an ambush, early in director Elia Kazan's Boomerang!, 1947.

Bank Dick, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Motion Picture History Lush Egbert Sousè (screenwriter and star W.C. Fields) has bluffed his way into substitute-directing a movie shooting in his hometown, Reed Hadley his star, his young daughter (Evelyn Del Rio) blowing it, in The Bank Dick, 1940.

Leave Her To Heaven (1946) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Cripple! Ellen (Gene Tierney) consults with Dr. Mason (Reed Hadley) about his patient, her young brother-in-law, then turns duplicitous when husband Richard (Cornel Wilde) arrives, in John M. Stahl's Leave Her To Heaven, 1946.

T-Men (1947) -- (Movie Clip) A Tight And Tough Outfit Herbert Heyes as Treasury officer Carson could pass for a non-actor, framing the case before Reed Hadley's narration introduces our heroes, Dennis O'Keefe as O'Brien, Alfred Ryder as Genaro, in Anthony Mann's terse quasi-documentary Noir T-Men, 1947.

Dallas (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Fry You For Breakfast First scene for Gary Cooper (as "Blayde Hollister") in which the great man gets himself shot, by Wild Bill Hickock (Reed Hadley), new-in-town marshal Weatherby (Leif Erickson), and others, baffled, from Dallas, 1950.

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