- Born Name: Reed Herring
- Birthday: 1911-06-25 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Helen Hadley (?-1974) (his death) 1 child
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- Medium: Actor
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Reed Hadley, Reed Hadley (June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974) was an American movie, television and radio actor.Reed Hadley was born Reed Herring in Petrolia in Clay County near Wichita Falls, Texas, to Bert Herring, an oil well driller, and his wife Minnie. Hadley had one sister, Bess Brenner. He was reared Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Bennett High School in Buffalo and was involved in local theater with the Studio Arena Theater. Hadley and his wife, Helen, had one son. Dale.[citation needed]. 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, USA (1955). With his bass voice, he 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 also worked on the Red Ryder radio show during the 1940s, being the first actor to portray the title character. In films,among other things, he starred as Zorro in the 1939 serial Zorros Fighting Legion. He is immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his television work.He was the voice of cowboy hero Red Ryder on radio and the narrator of several Department of Defense films: Operation Ivy, about the first hydrogen bomb test, Ivy Mike, Military Participation on Tumbler/Snapper; Military Participation on Buster Jangle; and Operation Upshot-Knothole all of which were produced by Lookout Mountain studios. The films were originally intended for internal military use, but have been sanitized, edited, and de-classified, and are now available to the public. During the period he narrated these films, Hadley held a Top Secret security clearance.Hadley also served as the narrator on various Hollywood films, including House on 92nd Street (1945), Call Northside 777 (1947) and Boomerang (1947).Reed Hadley died at age 63 on December 11, 1974, in Los Angeles, California, of a heart attack. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.Texas portalNew York portalCalifornia portal[edit] References^ a b c IMDb.com Reed Hadley biography. IMDb.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352914/bio IMDb.com. Retrieved 2008-09-24. ^ imdb data base^ videodetective[edit] External linksBiography portalReed Hadley at the Internet Movie DatabaseReed Hadley at the Internet Broadway Database (as Reed Herring)Video Detective filmographyReed Hadley at Find a GravePersondataNameHadley, ReedAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birthJune 25, 1911Place of birthPetrolia, Texas, U.S.Date of deathDecember 11, 1974Place of deathLos Angeles, California, U.S.Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_HadleyCategories: American actors | 1911 births | 1974 deaths | People from Texas | Actors from CaliforniaHidden categories: Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCards | All articles with unsourced statements | Articles with unsourced statements from March 2009Personal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable version This page was last modified on 24 February 2011 at 21:49.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimersif ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.config.set({wgCanonicalNamespace: , wgCanonicalSpecialPageName: false, wgNamespaceNumber: 0, wgPageName: Reed_Hadley, wgTitle: Reed Hadley, wgAction: view, wgArticleId: 6758892, wgIsArticle: true, wgUserName: null, wgUserGroups: [*], wgCurRevisionId: 415759002, wgCategories: [Infobox person using deprecated parameters, Articles with hCards, All articles with unsourced statements, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2009, American actors, 1911 births, 1974 deaths, People from Texas, Actors from California], wgBreakFrames: false, wgRestrictionEdit: [], wgRestrictionMove: [], wgSearchNamespaces: [0], wgFlaggedRevsParams: {tags: {status: {levels: 1, quality: 2, pristine: 3}}}, wgStableRevisionId: null, wgRevContents: {error: Unable to get content., waiting: Waiting for content}, wgWikimediaMobileUrl: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki, wgCollapsibleNavBucketTest: false, wgCollapsibleNavForceNewVersion: false, wgArticleAssessmentJUIPath: http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions-1.17/UsabilityInitiative/js/js2stopgap/jui.combined.min.js, Geo: {city: , country: }, wgNoticeProject: wikipedia});}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.loader.load([mediawiki.legacy.wikibits, mediawiki.util, mediawiki.legacy.ajax, mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest, ext.vector.collapsibleNav, ext.vector.collapsibleTabs, ext.vector.editWarning, ext.vector.simpleSearch]);mediaWiki.loader.go();}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.user.options.set({ccmeonemails:0,cols:80,contextchars:50,contextlines:5,date:default,diffonly:0,disablemail:0,disablesuggest:0,editfont:default,editondblclick:0,editsection:1,editsectiononrightclick:0,enotifminoredits:0,enotifrevealaddr:0,enotifusertalkpages:1,enotifwatchlistpages:0,extendwatchlist:0,externaldiff:0,externaleditor:0,fancysig:0,forceeditsummary:0,gender:unknown,hideminor:0,hidepatrolled:0,highlightbroken:1,imagesize:2,justify:0,math:1,minordefault:0,newpageshidepatrolled:0,nocache:0,noconvertlink:0,norollbackdiff:0,numberheadings:0,previewonfirst:0,previewontop:1,quickbar:1,rcdays:7,rclimit:50,rememberpassword:0,rows:25,searchlimit:20,showhiddencats:0,showjumplinks:1,shownumberswatching:1,showtoc:1,showtoolbar:1,skin:vector,stubthreshold:0,thumbsize:4,underline:2,uselivepreview:0,usenewrc:0,watchcreations:1,watchdefault:0,watchdeletion:0,watchlistdays:3,watchlisthideanons:0,watchlisthidebots:0,watchlisthideliu:0,watchlisthideminor:0,watchlisthideown:0,watchlisthidepatrolled:0,watchmoves:0,wllimit:250,flaggedrevssimpleui:1,flaggedrevsstable:false,flaggedrevseditdiffs:true,flaggedrevsviewdiffs:false,vector-simplesearch:1,useeditwarning:1,vector-collapsiblenav:1,usebetatoolbar:1,usebetatoolbar-cgd:1,variant:en,language:en,searchNs0:true,searchNs1:false,searchNs2:false,searchNs3:false,searchNs4:false,searchNs5:false,searchNs6:false,searchNs7:false,searchNs8:false,searchNs9:false,searchNs10:false,searchNs11:false,searchNs12:false,searchNs13:false,searchNs14:false,searchNs15:false,searchNs100:false,searchNs101:false,searchNs108:false,searchNs109:false});mediaWiki.loader.state({user.options:ready});/* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-js:3:ae2156c08a06314b12473d37e57711e2 */} if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha();