Bradford Dillman
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Bradford Dillman as a guest star in The F.B.I. in 1966.
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April 14, 1930 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, author |
| Years active | 1953–1995 |
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Frieda Harding Dillman (m. 1956; div. 1962) Suzy Parker (m. 1963; d. 2003) |
| Children | 5 |
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Bradford Dillman (born April 14, 1930) is an American actor and author.
Bradford Dillman was born on April 14, 1930 in San Francisco, California, the son of Josephine (née Moore) and Dean Dillman, a stockbroker. Bradford’s paternal grandparents were Charles Francis Dillman (the son of William P. Dillman and Sarah J. Rhodes) and Stella Borland Dean (the daughter of Elisha B. Dean and Jannette Wilcox). He studied at Town School for Boys and St. Ignatius High School. Later, he attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, where he became involved in school theatre productions. He attended Yale University, studying theatre and drama. While at Yale, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1948. He graduated from Yale with a BA in English Literature.
After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps as an officer candidate, training at Parris Island. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in September 1951. As he was preparing to deploy to Korea, his orders were changed, and he spent the rest of his time in the Marine Corps, 1951 to 1953, teaching communication in the Instructors' Orientation Course. He was discharged in 1953 at the rank of first lieutenant.
Studying with the Actors Studio, he spent several seasons apprenticing with the Sharon, Connecticut Playhouse before making his professional acting debut in The Scarecrow in 1953. Dillman took his initial Broadway bow in the Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night in 1956, playing the author's alter ego character Edmund Tyrone and winning a Theatre World Award in the process. This distinct success put him squarely on the map and 20th Century Fox took notice by placing the darkly handsome up-and-comer under contract. Cast in the melodramatic soaper A Certain Smile (1958), he earned a Golden Globe award. In 1957, Actress and Producer Katharine Cornell placed him in her Broadway production of Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize winning play, There Shall Be No Night. The play was adapted for television in a Hallmark Hall of Fame production.
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