Reed Hadley
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Reed Hadley in 1953 Kansas Pacific
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| Born |
Reed Herring June 25, 1911 Petrolia, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | December 11, 1974 (aged 63) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Bennett High School |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1938-1971 |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Hadley (?-1974) (his death) |
| Children | Dale Hadley |
Reed Hadley (born Reed Herring; June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974) was an American film, television and radio actor.
Reed Hadley was born in Petrolia in Clay County near Wichita Falls in northern 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 and graduated from Bennett High School there. He was involved in the local 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, U.S.A. (1955), and 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 was the voice of cowboy hero Red Ryder on the radio show during the 1940s. In films, he starred as Zorro in the 1939 serial Zorro's Fighting Legion.
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