Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman (born April 14, 1930 in San Francisco , California - † January 16, 2018 in Santa Barbara , California) was an American film and theater actor .
Life
The son of Dean and Josephine Dillman studied English literature at Yale University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts . He had already been involved in the school theater during his school days.
Initially, Dillman planned to start a military career; so he served between 1951 and 1953 in the United States Marine Corps , where he worked as a communications coach. But in 1953 he decided to give up the military career in favor of acting.
He studied acting at the Actors Studio in Manhattan and gained his first stage experience in 1953 in a theater in the small town of Sharon, Connecticut . In 1955 he made his television debut in an edition of the Kraft Television Theater . In 1956 he first appeared on Broadway in One Long Day's Journey into the Night as Edmund Tyrone, for which he was awarded the Theater World Award .
Over the years Dillman has taken on numerous television and film roles; most of all, however, he worked with 20th Century Fox .
Dillman was married twice. On June 15, 1956, he married Frieda Harding; the marriage, which resulted in two children, was divorced on April 4, 1962. A year later, on April 20, 1963, he married the film actress Suzy Parker , with whom Dillman was married until her death on May 3, 2003. The two had three children together.
Filmography (selection)
- 1958: A certain smile (A Certain Smile)
- 1958: Hell, where's your horror (In Love and War)
- 1959: The compulsion to evil (Compulsion)
- 1960: Drama in the Mirror (Crack in the Mirror)
- 1961: Confession of a sinner (Sanctuary)
- 1961: Francis of Assisi (Francis of Assisi)
- 1965: Nymphomania (A Rage to Live)
- 1966: A Thousand Rifles for Golden Hill (The Plainsman)
- 1968: The Despicable Three (The Helicopter Spies)
- 1968: The Naked Dead (Jigsaw)
- 1968: Hang the Traitor (Sergeant Ryker)
- 1969: The Bridge at Remagen (The Bridge at Remagen)
- 1971: Brother John ... The Man From Nowhere (Brother John)
- 1971: Escape from the Planet of the Apes (Escape from the Planet of the Apes)
- 1971: Mephisto Waltz (The Mephisto Waltz)
- 1973: Cherie Bitter (The Way We Were)
- 1973: The Iceman Cometh
- 1974: gold (gold)
- 1974: König Ballermann (99 and 44/100% Dead)
- 1975: fire beetle (bug)
- 1975: Columbo - Flowers of Evil ( The Greenhouse Jungle , Movie made for TV)
- 1976: Dirty Harry III - The Enforcer
- 1976: Escape through the desert (One Away)
- 1977: The Tiger from Taipei (The Amsterdam Kill)
- 1978: Piranhas (Piranha)
- 1978: The Swarm (The Swarm)
- 1979: Guiana - Cult of the Damned (Guyana, el crimen del siglo)
- 1979: A man cleans up (Love and bullets)
- 1979: The Incredible Hulk ( The Incredible Hulk TV series, one episode)
- 1981: Running Scared
- 1983: Dirty Harry Comes Back (Sudden Impact)
- 1985: The Secret of the Blue Diamond (The Treasure of the Amazon)
- 1985–1995: Murder is her hobby ( Murder, She Wrote , TV series, 8 episodes)
- 1987: There's Always a Way (Man Outside)
- 1989: Lords of the Deep
- 1989: Heroes Die Alone
Awards
- 1959: In addition to an Emmy nomination, Dillman won a Golden Globe for Best Newcomer . He also received the Actor Award together with Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959 .
literature
- Bradford Dillman: Are You Anybody? To actor's life. Foreword by Suzy Parker. Fithian Press, Santa Barbara CA 1997, ISBN 1-564-74199-0 .
Web links
- Bradford Dillman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Barnes: Bradford Dillman, Actor in 'Compulsion' and 'The Way We Were,' Dies at 87 . The Hollywood Reporter , January 18, 2018, accessed January 19, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dillman, Bradford |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and stage actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 2018 |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara (California) |