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Reed Hadley was an American movie, television and radio actor, and known for his deep 'authoritative' voice. Reed Hadley was born Reed Herring 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...  MORE

Reed Hadley was an American movie, television and radio actor, and known for his deep 'authoritative' voice. Reed Hadley was born Reed Herring 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, The Half-Breed, Highway Dragnet and Big House, USA, and narrated a number of documentaries. He starred in two television series, Racket Squad as Captain Braddock, and The Public Defender 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 and was the first actor to portray the title character. In films, he starred as Zorro in the 1939 serial Zorro's Fighting Legion. LESS