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Reed Hadley

Reed Hadley
Reed Hadley
Born: 1911 in Petrolia, Texas
Died: Dec 11, 1974 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '30s-'50s
Major Genres: Drama, Crime
Career Highlights: Little Big Horn, I Shot Jesse James, Zorro's Fighting Legion
First Major Screen Credit: Female Fugitive (1938)
9 Videos for Reed Hadley
Little Big Horn (1951) The Dark Corner (1946) The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
The Return of Jesse James (1950) I Married a Witch (1942) The Adventures of Captain Marvel [Serial] (1941)
Rimfire (1949) Now, Voyager (1942) The Bank Dick (1940)
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Biography:

While the name and face may not be familiar, the voice of Reed Hadley will be instantly recognizable to filmgoers of the 1940s. Working as an actor by night and floorwalker by day, the tall, spare Hadley began picking up radio gigs in the 1930s. His best-known airwaves assignment was the voice of western hero Red Ryder.

In films from 1938, Hadley spent his first few years before the camera bouncing around between heroes and heavies; he starred in the 1939 serial Zorro's Fighting Legion, and was seen briefly as a burlesqued Hollywood matinee idol in W.C. Fields' The Bank Dick (1940). Signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1943, Hadley appeared onscreen and served as the offscreen narrator of such docudramas as House on 92nd Street (1945), Call Northside 777 (1947) and Boomerang (1947).

From 1950 through 1953, Hadley starred as Captain Braddock, the unctuous, chain-smoking star/narrator of the popular TV series Racket Squad; in 1954, he played a similar role on the 39-week series Public Defender. Considering the fact that Reed Hadley's deep, persuasive voice was his fortune, it is ironic that his last screen role was a non-speaking supporting part in Roger Corman's The St.

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