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Bradford Dillman

Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman
Born: Apr 14, 1930 in San Francisco, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '60s-'80s
Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
Career Highlights: Compulsion, The Bridge at Remagen, The Way We Were
First Major Screen Credit: Hallmark Hall of Fame: There Shall Be No Night (1957)
8 Videos for Bradford Dillman
The Treasure of the Amazon (1984) The Swarm (1978) Brother John (1970)
Sudden Impact (1983) Murder or Mercy (1974) Francis of Assisi (1961)
Guyana, Cult of the Damned (1980) The Way We Were (1973)
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Biography:

Yale graduate Bradford Dillman began his career in the sort of misunderstood-youth roles that had previously been the province of Montgomery Clift and James Dean. His first significant stage success was as the younger son in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night.

Signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1958, Dillman at first played standard leading men; his subtle shift to villainy occurred after he was cast as a wealthy psychopath in Compulsion, the 1959 drama based on the Leopold-Loeb case. Compulsion won Dillman an award at the Cannes Film Festival, and also threatened to typecast him for the rest of his film career, notwithstanding his leading role in Fox's Francis of Assisi (1961).

It was during his Fox years that Dillman married popular cover girl Suzy Parker. Bradford Dillman has remained much in demand as a television guest star, and in 1965 was the lead on the filmed-in-Britain TV drama series Court-Martial. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.