Harold Bradley (actor)
| Harold Bradley, Jr. | |
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Position (s): Guard |
Jersey numbers: 60, 65 |
| born on October 13, 1929 in Chicago , Illinois | |
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| Active : 1954 - 1958 | |
| College : Iowa | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Games played | 47 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
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Harold Willard Bradley (born October 13, 1929 in Chicago , Illinois ) is a retired American football player , later known as an actor , artist and musician . He was a member of the football team at Iowa State University and played four seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Bradley played various roles in more than 25 Italian films and opened an art and music studio in Rome.
Life
Bradley graduated in fine arts and played - like his father earlier - football, from 1954 to 1956 three seasons for the Cleveland Browns and 1958 for the Philadelphia Eagles . In January 1959 he went to Italy to study art at Perugia University for Foreigners ; he knew the country from his stay in the military. He earned money as a folk singer in the bars of the city.
In 1960 he made his debut as an actor and played numerous roles until 1967, in which the tall, bulky Bradley played impressive supporting roles - mostly as a slave, friend of the hero or servant - in adventure films due to his black skin color.
In 1968 he returned to Illinois, where he was the curator of the Illinois Arts Council for the next nineteen years ; he also taught and worked for television in various formats. In 1987 he moved to Rome again, where he now played around 120 concerts a year as the singer of Jona's Blues Band . He then founded several spiritual singing groups, with which he is still active, and occasionally appeared in films again.
Filmography (selection)
- 1960: La tragica notte di Assisi
- 1962: The mighty seven (Maciste il gladiatore più forte del mondo)
- 1963: The Slaves of Damascus (L'eroe di Babilonia)
- 1963: The strongest under the sun (Maciste l'eroe più grande del mondo)
- 1965: Uncle Tom's hut
- 1967: His change is lead (I gironi della violenza)
- 2002: Gangs of New York (Gangs of New York)
- 2011: Habemus papam
Web links
- Harold Bradley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://people.famouswhy.com/harold_bradley/
- ↑ Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli: Dictionnaire del cinema italiano. Attori stranieri del nostro cinema . Gremese 2006, p. 24
- ↑ Bradley on Matt Blake's The Wild Eye
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| SURNAME | Bradley, Harold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bradley, Harold Willard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player, actor, artist, and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |