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Reed Hadley (June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 movie, television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 and radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
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Reed Hadley was born Reed Herring in Petrolia, Texas
Petrolia, Texas

Petrolia is a city in Clay County, Texas, Texas, United States. It is part of the Wichita Falls, Texas Wichita Falls metropolitan area. The population was 782 at the 2000 United States Census....
 to Bert Herring, an oil well driller, and his wife Minnie; Reed had one sister, Bess Brenner, and grew up in Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York

Buffalo , is the second largest city in the state of New York. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the county seat of Erie County, New York....
. He graduated from Bennett High School in Buffalo and was involved in local theater with the Studio Arena Theater
Studio Arena Theater

History Founded in the 1920s in Buffalo, NY by a group of local enthusiasts, the Studio Theater evolved as both a theater and a theater school. It was located on Lafayette Street for many years before moving in the 1970s to Main Street into the space previously occupied by the Town Casino ....
. Hadley was married to Helen and had one son Dale.






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Reed Hadley (June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 movie, television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 and radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Reed Hadley was born Reed Herring in Petrolia, Texas
Petrolia, Texas

Petrolia is a city in Clay County, Texas, Texas, United States. It is part of the Wichita Falls, Texas Wichita Falls metropolitan area. The population was 782 at the 2000 United States Census....
 to Bert Herring, an oil well driller, and his wife Minnie; Reed had one sister, Bess Brenner, and grew up in Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York

Buffalo , is the second largest city in the state of New York. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the county seat of Erie County, New York....
. He graduated from Bennett High School in Buffalo and was involved in local theater with the Studio Arena Theater
Studio Arena Theater

History Founded in the 1920s in Buffalo, NY by a group of local enthusiasts, the Studio Theater evolved as both a theater and a theater school. It was located on Lafayette Street for many years before moving in the 1970s to Main Street into the space previously occupied by the Town Casino ....
. Hadley was married to Helen and had one son Dale. Before moving to Hollywood he acted in Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
 on stage in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
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Throughout his thirty-five-year career in film, Hadley was cast as both a villain and a hero of the law. With his bass voice, he did voice over for documentaries. He starred in two television shows: Racket Squad
Racket Squad

Racket Squad is an United States of America Police procedural series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional cop working for the San Francisco, California Police Department....
 (1950-1953) and Public Defender (1953-1954). He also worked on the Red Ryder
Red Ryder

File:Harmanredryder25.jpgRed Ryder a popular American fictional cowboy from the 1940s, was created by Stephen Slesinger and drawn by artist Fred Harman....
 radio show during the 1940s. In films,among other things, he starred as Zorro in the 1939 serial Zorro's Fighting Legion
Zorro's Fighting Legion

Zorro's Fighting Legion was a 1939 in film Republic Pictures Serial film consisting of 12 chapters. It featured Reed Hadley as Zorro and his alter-ego Don Diego's fight against the evil Don Del Oro....
. He is immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his television work.

He was the narrator of several Department of Defense films: "Operation Ivy", about the first hydrogen bomb test, Ivy Mike
Ivy Mike

Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first US test of a nuclear fusion device where a major part of the explosive yield came from fusion. It was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the United States at on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Operation Ivy....
, "Military Participation on Tumbler/Snapper
Operation Tumbler-Snapper

Operation Tumbler-Snapper was a series of Nuclear testing conducted by the United States in the spring of 1952 at the Nevada Test Site. The Tumbler-Snapper Series of tests preceded Operation Ivy, and followed Operation Buster-Jangle....
"; "Military Participation on Buster Jangle
Operation Buster-Jangle

Operation Buster-Jangle was a series of seven nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States in late 1951 at the Nevada Test Site. Buster-Jangle was the first joint test program between the DOD and Los Alamos National Laboratory National Laboratories....
"; and "Operation Upshot-Knothole
Operation Upshot-Knothole

File:Operation Upshot test 2.oggOperation Upshot-Knothole was a series of eleven nuclear test shots conducted in 1953 at the Nevada Test Site....
" 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.

Reed Hadley died on December 11 1974 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, of a heart attack. He was aged 63 at the time of his death, and the place of his burial is unknown.