Richard Bradford

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Richard Edwin Bradford Jr. , also Dick Bradford (born November 10, 1934 in Tyler , Texas - † March 22, 2016 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor .

Life

Richard Bradford initially attended Texas A & M University with a American football - scholarship , but an injury prevented a possible early sports career. He moved to the University of Texas and tried his hand at a career in baseball . When this failed too, he moved to New York City and studied acting at Berghoff Studios there from 1957 ; In 1962 he moved to Lee Strasberg's The Actors Studio for two years . He made his feature film debut in 1966 in Arthur Penn's drama A Man Is Hunted ; alongside Marlon Brando , Robert Redford and Jane Fonda he had a major supporting role.

Instead of pursuing a Hollywood career , he moved to the UK , where he got the lead role in the British agent series The Man with the Suitcase . Between 1967 and 1968 a season with 30 episodes of the series was created, which was then discontinued. He returned to the United States, where he played alongside Edward G. Robinson one of the leading roles in the pilot film For the Life and Death of Boris Sagal , but did not resume his role in the series that was subsequently produced under the name Medical Center .

In the first half of the 1970s, Bradford was mainly in guest roles on various television series such as High Chaparral , The Waltons and Kojak - Use in Manhattan . In Arthur Penn's late-western duel on the Missouri , he starred alongside Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando in 1975, and two years later he acted under Nicholson's direction in the western comedy The Gallows Rope . In 1982 he played Hammett in Wim Wenders ' first Hollywood film . In the late 1980s he had a major supporting role in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables alongside Sean Connery and Kevin Costner and one of the leading roles in Robert Redford's comedy film Milagro - The War in the Bean Field . He was often cast as a police officer or sheriff , including in Harlem, NYC - The Price of Power by Bill Duke .

Bradford was Jack Nicholson's best man . In 1986, The Smiths used a photo of Bradford on the cover of their single Panic .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Bradford. In: legacy.com. (English).
personal data
SURNAME Bradford, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bradford, Richard Edwin Jr. (full name); Bradford, Dick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyler , Texas
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2016
Place of death Los Angeles , California