Leslie Bradley

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Leslie E. Bradley (born September 1, 1907 in Aldershot , Hampshire , † July 20, 1974 in Desert Hot Springs , California , USA ) was a British actor .

life and career

The southern Englishman Leslie Bradley made his film debut in 1934 alongside Sebastian Shaw in the now largely forgotten crime film The Way of Youth , in which he played a lieutenant. Most of the films he shot in Great Britain over the next 15 years are similarly unknown, especially during the Second World War , where he increasingly appeared in uniform roles in front of the camera. In the late 1940s, he moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in front of the camera in both smaller and larger supporting roles. He was often seen in history and adventure films, in which he mostly played socially high-ranking and villainous characters - for example as the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in Slaves of Babylon (1953) with Linda Christian or as the aristocratic opponent of Maureen O'Hara in The Naked Hostage (1955).

Probably his best-known role is that of the Spanish Baron Gruda in the adventure classic The Red Corsair (1952), who acts as the main antagonist to Burt Lancaster's pirate captain. Outside of the costume film, Bradley often took on smaller roles, in which he embodied mostly authority figures such as officers, captains, priests or judges. Since the early 1950s, he also took on guest roles in a number of US television series. His last of almost 90 film and television appearances he had in 1970 in the television series The Young Rebels with Louis Gossett junior . Four years later, Bradley, whose personal life is little known, died at the age of 66 in Desert Hot Springs, California.

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SURNAME Bradley, Leslie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bradley, Leslie E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Aldershot , Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 1974
Place of death Desert Hot Springs , California , USA