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Bradford Dillman

December 03, 2023

Bradford Dillman (April 14, 1930 – January 16, 2018) was an American actor and author.

Bradford Dillman
Dillman as a guest star in The F.B.I. in 1966.
Born(1930-04-14)April 14, 1930
San Francisco, California, U.S.
DiedJanuary 16, 2018(2018-01-16) (aged 87)
Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Actor, author
Years active1953–1995
Spouses
Frieda Harding McIntosh
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(m. 1956; div. 1962)​
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(m. 1963; died 2003)​
Children5
Signature

Early life edit

Bradford Dillman was born on April 14, 1930, in San Francisco, the son of Dean Dillman, a stockbroker, and Josephine (née Moore).[1] Bradford's paternal grandparents were Charles Francis Dillman and Stella Borland Dean. He studied at Town School for Boys and St. Ignatius High School. He later attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, where he became involved with school theatre productions. While at Yale University, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1948. While a student, he was a member of the Yale Dramatic Association, Fence Club, Torch Honor Society, The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, WYBC and Berzelius.[2] He graduated from Yale in 1951 with a BA in English Literature.[3][2]

After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps as an officer candidate, training at Parris Island. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in September 1951. As he was preparing to deploy to the war in Korea, his orders were changed, and he spent the rest of his time in the Marine Corps, from 1951 to 1953, teaching communication in the Instructors' Orientation Course. He was discharged in 1953 with the rank of first lieutenant.[3]

Career edit

Studying with the Actors Studio,[4] Dillman spent several seasons apprenticing with the Sharon, Connecticut Playhouse before making his professional acting debut in The Scarecrow in 1953.[5]

Broadway edit

Dillman first performed in a Broadway play as part of the U.S. premiere cast of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night in November 1956. He portrayed the author's alter-ego character Edmund Tyrone and won a Theatre World Award for his performance. The production also featured Fredric March, Florence Eldridge and Jason Robards Jr., and played for 390 performances until March 1958.[6]

During 1955 he appeared in an episode of the television series The Big Picture as an MP patrolling the city of Augusta, Georgia. In 1957, Katharine Cornell cast him in a Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize winning 1940 play, There Shall Be No Night.[7]

20th Century Fox edit

Dillman was cast in the movie melodrama A Certain Smile (1958). He followed this with In Love and War (1958), a war movie featuring many of 20th Century Fox's young contract players, for which he earned a Golden Globe award.[8] It was a financial success. So too was Compulsion (1959), featuring Dillman, Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles for producer Richard Zanuck and director Richard Fleischer.[9]

Dillman shared an award for Best Actor with Stockwell and Welles at the Cannes Film Festival.[10] After making the movie Circle of Deception (1960) in London, Dillman was reunited with Welles, Fleischer and Zanuck for Crack in the Mirror (1960), filmed in Paris.[11] It was unsuccessful. Back in Hollywood, Fox cast Dillman in support of Yves Montand and Lee Remick in Sanctuary (1961). They also had him in the title role in Francis of Assisi (1961).[12]

Television edit

When he quit Fox, Dillman mostly concentrated on television. He guest-starred in a 1963 episode of The Virginian, titled: "Echo of Another Day" also appearing in S2E22 12 O’Clock High, “Twenty-Fifth Mission’. He co-featured with Diana Hyland in the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "To Catch A Butterfly" in February 1963, and with Barbara Barrie in the 1964 Hitchcock Hour episode "Isabel". He appeared in seven episodes of Dr. Kildare (1964–66) and 26 of Court Martial (1965–66).[13][14] He guest-featured in television series such as The F.B.I. (six episodes), Ironside (two episodes), Shane, The Name of the Game, Columbo, The Wild Wild West, The Eleventh Hour, Wagon Train, The Greatest Show on Earth, Breaking Point, Mission: Impossible (two episodes), The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cannon, Barnaby Jones (six episodes), Three for the Road, Wonder Woman and a two-part episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which was made into the feature movie The Helicopter Spies (1968).[15][16]

Dillman appeared twice in the Western television series The Big Valley (1965–69), once in season two, episode 15, titled "Day of the Comet", broadcast December 26, 1966; and the second time in season three, episode 9, titled "A Noose is Waiting", which was broadcast November 13, 1967.[17] He appeared in occasional movies during this period, including A Rage to Live (1965), Sergeant Ryker (1968), and The Bridge at Remagen (1969).[18]

Dillman played painter Richard Pickman in the television adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's 1926 story, Pickman's Model, presented as the opening act of a December 1971 Night Gallery episode.[19] In 1970 Bradford in the roll of a U.S. Army captain starred with Brian Keith and Tony Curtis in the TV film Suppose They Gave A War and Nobody Came. He starred as Tony Goodland in "the Greenhouse Jungle", the second episode of the second season of Columbo (initially aired on October 15, 1972). He also starred as the sadistic hunter Michael Sutton in "The Snare", the ninth episode in the third season of The Incredible Hulk (initially aired on December 7, 1979).

Later career and author edit

Dillman appeared in made-for-television movies such as Fear No Evil (1969), Moon of the Wolf (1972), and Deliver Us from Evil (1973).[18] His film work included Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), The Way We Were (1973), Gold (1974), Bug (1975), The Enforcer (1976), The Swarm (1978), Piranha (1978), Sudden Impact (1983), and Lords of the Deep (1989).[20] He appeared in 10 episodes of Falcon Crest (1982–83), and 2 of Dynasty (1984). His last known acting appearance was an episode of Murder, She Wrote in 1995, his eighth guest appearance on the series.[18]

Dillman's football fan book, Inside The New York Giants, was published in 1995.[21] An autobiography, Are You Anybody?: An Actor's Life, was published in 1997.[22]

Personal life edit

From 1956 to 1962, Dillman was married to Frieda Harding and had two children (Jeffrey and Pamela) with her. He met actress and model Suzy Parker during the production of Circle of Deception (1960). The couple married on April 20, 1963, and had three children, Dinah, Charles, and Christopher. The marriage lasted until Parker's death on May 3, 2003.

Dillman was a cousin of the eccentric author and heiress Aimee Crocker.

Dillman lived for many years in Montecito, California, and helped raise money for medical research.[23] He died in Santa Barbara, California, on January 16, 2018, aged 87, due to complications of pneumonia.[24]

Bradford Dillman was the actor's real name. He said "Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony, theatrical name -- so I kept it."[25]

Selected filmography edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Bradford Dillman Biography". filmreference.com; Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Yale Class of 1951 Banner and Pot Pourri (yearbook). New Haven, Conn: Yale University. 1951.
  3. ^ a b Wise, James E.; Anne Collier Rehill (1999). "Bradford Dillman". Stars in the Corps: Movie actors in the United States Marines (2nd ed.). Naval Institute Press. pp. 91–98. ISBN 978-1-55750-949-9. Retrieved March 21, 2009.
  4. ^ Garfield, David (1980). "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio. New York: MacMillan. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-0254-2650-4.
  5. ^ "Overview for Bradford Dillman". Turner Classic Movies.
  6. ^ "Long Day's Journey Into Night – Broadway Play – Original". Internet Broadway Database.
  7. ^ . AllMovie. Archived from the original on 2018-03-13. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  8. ^ "Bradford Dillman". Golden Globes.
  9. ^ "Compulsion (1959) - Richard Fleischer - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
  10. ^ "Compulsion (1959) - Richard Fleischer - Awards". AllMovie.
  11. ^ "Crack in the Mirror (1960)". AFI-Catalog. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  12. ^ . British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016.
  13. ^ "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Isabel (1964) - Alf Kjellin - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
  14. ^ "Court-Martial". TV Guide.
  15. ^ "Bradford Dillman". TV Guide.
  16. ^ Newman, Kim (January 26, 2007). "The Helicopter Spies". Empire.
  17. ^ "The Big Valley (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)". epguides.com.
  18. ^ a b c "Bradford Dillman - Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
  19. ^ Gaita, Paul (October 27, 2009). "Honored Horror: 'Night Gallery: Pickman's Model'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  20. ^ "Bradford Dillman". AFI-Catalog.
  21. ^ Dillman, Bradford; Giddings, Mike (June 22, 1994). Inside the New York Giants. Third Story Books. ISBN 978-1884506161.
  22. ^ Dillman, Bradford (June 22, 1997). Are you anybody?: an actor's life. Fithian Press. ISBN 978-1564741998.
  23. ^ "Bradford Dillman: Orson Welles: The View from Mount Olympus". American Legends. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  24. ^ Barnes, Mike (January 21, 2018). "Bradford Dillman, Actor in 'Compulsion' and 'The Way We Were,' Dies at 87". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  25. ^ Bernstein, Adam (January 19, 2018). "Bradford Dillman, multifaceted and prolific actor of stage and screen, dies at 87". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 23, 2018.

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Bradford Dillman news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message Bradford Dillman April 14 1930 January 16 2018 was an American actor and author Bradford DillmanDillman as a guest star in The F B I in 1966 Born 1930 04 14 April 14 1930San Francisco California U S DiedJanuary 16 2018 2018 01 16 aged 87 Santa Barbara California U S Occupation s Actor authorYears active1953 1995SpousesFrieda Harding McIntosh m 1956 div 1962 wbr Suzy Parker m 1963 died 2003 wbr Children5Signature Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Broadway 2 2 20th Century Fox 2 3 Television 2 4 Later career and author 3 Personal life 4 Selected filmography 5 References 6 External linksEarly life editBradford Dillman was born on April 14 1930 in San Francisco the son of Dean Dillman a stockbroker and Josephine nee Moore 1 Bradford s paternal grandparents were Charles Francis Dillman and Stella Borland Dean He studied at Town School for Boys and St Ignatius High School He later attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut where he became involved with school theatre productions While at Yale University he enlisted in the U S Naval Reserve in 1948 While a student he was a member of the Yale Dramatic Association Fence Club Torch Honor Society The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus WYBC and Berzelius 2 He graduated from Yale in 1951 with a BA in English Literature 3 2 After graduation he entered the United States Marine Corps as an officer candidate training at Parris Island He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in September 1951 As he was preparing to deploy to the war in Korea his orders were changed and he spent the rest of his time in the Marine Corps from 1951 to 1953 teaching communication in the Instructors Orientation Course He was discharged in 1953 with the rank of first lieutenant 3 Career editStudying with the Actors Studio 4 Dillman spent several seasons apprenticing with the Sharon Connecticut Playhouse before making his professional acting debut in The Scarecrow in 1953 5 Broadway edit Dillman first performed in a Broadway play as part of the U S premiere cast of Eugene O Neill s Long Day s Journey into Night in November 1956 He portrayed the author s alter ego character Edmund Tyrone and won a Theatre World Award for his performance The production also featured Fredric March Florence Eldridge and Jason Robards Jr and played for 390 performances until March 1958 6 During 1955 he appeared in an episode of the television series The Big Picture as an MP patrolling the city of Augusta Georgia In 1957 Katharine Cornell cast him in a Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of Robert E Sherwood s Pulitzer Prize winning 1940 play There Shall Be No Night 7 20th Century Fox edit Dillman was cast in the movie melodrama A Certain Smile 1958 He followed this with In Love and War 1958 a war movie featuring many of 20th Century Fox s young contract players for which he earned a Golden Globe award 8 It was a financial success So too was Compulsion 1959 featuring Dillman Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles for producer Richard Zanuck and director Richard Fleischer 9 Dillman shared an award for Best Actor with Stockwell and Welles at the Cannes Film Festival 10 After making the movie Circle of Deception 1960 in London Dillman was reunited with Welles Fleischer and Zanuck for Crack in the Mirror 1960 filmed in Paris 11 It was unsuccessful Back in Hollywood Fox cast Dillman in support of Yves Montand and Lee Remick in Sanctuary 1961 They also had him in the title role in Francis of Assisi 1961 12 Television edit When he quit Fox Dillman mostly concentrated on television He guest starred in a 1963 episode of The Virginian titled Echo of Another Day also appearing in S2E22 12 O Clock High Twenty Fifth Mission He co featured with Diana Hyland in the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode To Catch A Butterfly in February 1963 and with Barbara Barrie in the 1964Hitchcock Hour episode Isabel He appeared in seven episodes of Dr Kildare 1964 66 and 26 of Court Martial 1965 66 13 14 He guest featured in television series such as The F B I six episodes Ironside two episodes Shane The Name of the Game Columbo The Wild Wild West The Eleventh Hour Wagon Train The Greatest Show on Earth Breaking Point Mission Impossible two episodes The Mary Tyler Moore Show Cannon Barnaby Jones six episodes Three for the Road Wonder Woman and a two part episode of The Man From U N C L E which was made into the feature movie The Helicopter Spies 1968 15 16 Dillman appeared twice in the Western television series The Big Valley 1965 69 once in season two episode 15 titled Day of the Comet broadcast December 26 1966 and the second time in season three episode 9 titled A Noose is Waiting which was broadcast November 13 1967 17 He appeared in occasional movies during this period including A Rage to Live 1965 Sergeant Ryker 1968 and The Bridge at Remagen 1969 18 Dillman played painter Richard Pickman in the television adaptation of H P Lovecraft s 1926 story Pickman s Model presented as the opening act of a December 1971 Night Gallery episode 19 In 1970 Bradford in the roll of a U S Army captain starred with Brian Keith and Tony Curtis in the TV film Suppose They Gave A War and Nobody Came He starred as Tony Goodland in the Greenhouse Jungle the second episode of the second season of Columbo initially aired on October 15 1972 He also starred as the sadistic hunter Michael Sutton in The Snare the ninth episode in the third season of The Incredible Hulk initially aired on December 7 1979 Later career and author edit Dillman appeared in made for television movies such as Fear No Evil 1969 Moon of the Wolf 1972 and Deliver Us from Evil 1973 18 His film work included Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1971 The Way We Were 1973 Gold 1974 Bug 1975 The Enforcer 1976 The Swarm 1978 Piranha 1978 Sudden Impact 1983 and Lords of the Deep 1989 20 He appeared in 10 episodes of Falcon Crest 1982 83 and 2 of Dynasty 1984 His last known acting appearance was an episode of Murder She Wrote in 1995 his eighth guest appearance on the series 18 Dillman s football fan book Inside The New York Giants was published in 1995 21 An autobiography Are You Anybody An Actor s Life was published in 1997 22 Personal life editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Bradford Dillman news newspapers books scholar JSTOR May 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message From 1956 to 1962 Dillman was married to Frieda Harding and had two children Jeffrey and Pamela with her He met actress and model Suzy Parker during the production of Circle of Deception 1960 The couple married on April 20 1963 and had three children Dinah Charles and Christopher The marriage lasted until Parker s death on May 3 2003 Dillman was a cousin of the eccentric author and heiress Aimee Crocker Dillman lived for many years in Montecito California and helped raise money for medical research 23 He died in Santa Barbara California on January 16 2018 aged 87 due to complications of pneumonia 24 Bradford Dillman was the actor s real name He said Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished phony theatrical name so I kept it 25 Selected filmography editA Certain Smile 1958 as Bertrand Griot In Love and War 1958 as Alan Newcombe Compulsion 1959 as Arthur A Straus Crack in the Mirror 1960 as Larnier Claude Circle of Deception 1960 as Capt Paul Raine Sanctuary 1961 as Gowan Stevens Francis of Assisi 1961 as Francis Bernardone of Assisi Monstrosity 1963 as Narrator voice uncredited Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1963 as Bill Nelson in episode To Catch a Butterfly A Rage to Live 1965 as Sidney Tate The Plainsman 1966 as Lt Stiles The Helicopter Spies 1968 as Luther Sebastian archive footage Sergeant Ryker 1968 as Capt David Young uses archive footage This was a recut version of a TV film first shown as a two part episode of NBC s Kraft Suspense Theatre which spawned the series Court Martial Jigsaw 1968 as Jonathan Fields Fear No Evil 1969 TV Movie as Paul Varney The Bridge at Remagen 1969 as Major Barnes Mastermind 1969 as Jabez Link Black Water Gold 1970 TV Movie as Lyle Fawcett Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came 1970 as Capt Myerson Brother John 1971 as Lloyd Thomas The Mephisto Waltz 1971 as Bill Delancey Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1971 as Dr Lewis Dixon Five Desperate Women 1971 TV Movie as Jim Meeker The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler 1971 as Sen Clayton Zachary Wheeler Moon of the Wolf 1972 TV movie as Andrew Rodanthe Mission Impossible 1972 TV series as Larry Edison Deliver Us from Evil 1973 TV Movie as Steven Dennis The Way We Were 1973 as J J The Iceman Cometh 1973 as Willie Oban Chosen Survivors 1974 as Peter Macomber 99 and 44 100 Dead 1974 as Big Eddie Gold 1974 as Manfred Steyner A Black Ribbon for Deborah 1974 as Michel Lagrange The Disappearance of Flight 412 1974 TV Movie as Maj Mike Dunning Bug 1975 as James Parmiter Mastermind 1976 as Jabez Link The Enforcer 1976 as Capt Jerome McKay One Away 1976 as Ruben Bass The Hostage Heart 1977 TV movie as Dr Eric Lake The Amsterdam Kill 1977 as Howard Odums The Lincoln Conspiracy 1977 as John Wilkes Booth The Swarm 1978 as Major Baker Piranha 1978 as Paul Grogan Love and Bullets 1979 as Jim Brickman Guyana Crime of the Century 1979 as Dr Gary Shaw The Memory of Eva Ryker 1980 TV Movie as Jason Eddington Running Scared 1980 as Arthur Jaeger The Legend of Walks Far Woman 1982 TV Movie as Singer Sudden Impact 1983 as Captain Briggs Treasure of the Amazon 1985 as Clark Man Outside 1987 as Frank Simmons Lords of the Deep 1989 as Dobler Heroes Stand Alone 1989 as Walt SimmonsReferences edit Bradford Dillman Biography filmreference com Retrieved April 11 2015 a b Yale Class of 1951 Banner and Pot Pourri yearbook New Haven Conn Yale University 1951 a b Wise James E Anne Collier Rehill 1999 Bradford Dillman Stars in the Corps Movie actors in the United States Marines 2nd ed Naval Institute Press pp 91 98 ISBN 978 1 55750 949 9 Retrieved March 21 2009 Garfield David 1980 Appendix Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980 A Player s Place The Story of The Actors Studio New York MacMillan p 278 ISBN 978 0 0254 2650 4 Overview for Bradford Dillman Turner Classic Movies Long Day s Journey Into Night Broadway Play Original Internet Broadway Database Hallmark Hall of Fame There Shall Be No Night 1957 George Schaefer Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie Archived from the original on 2018 03 13 Retrieved 2018 03 12 Bradford Dillman Golden Globes Compulsion 1959 Richard Fleischer Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie Compulsion 1959 Richard Fleischer Awards AllMovie Crack in the Mirror 1960 AFI Catalog Retrieved January 4 2021 Francis of Assisi 1961 British Film Institute Archived from the original on October 9 2016 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Isabel 1964 Alf Kjellin Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie Court Martial TV Guide Bradford Dillman TV Guide Newman Kim January 26 2007 The Helicopter Spies Empire The Big Valley a Titles amp Air Dates Guide epguides com a b c Bradford Dillman Movies and Filmography AllMovie Gaita Paul October 27 2009 Honored Horror Night Gallery Pickman s Model Los Angeles Times Retrieved January 4 2021 Bradford Dillman AFI Catalog Dillman Bradford Giddings Mike June 22 1994 Inside the New York Giants Third Story Books ISBN 978 1884506161 Dillman Bradford June 22 1997 Are you anybody an actor s life Fithian Press ISBN 978 1564741998 Bradford Dillman Orson Welles The View from Mount Olympus American Legends Retrieved January 4 2021 Barnes Mike January 21 2018 Bradford Dillman Actor in Compulsion and The Way We Were Dies at 87 The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved January 4 2021 Bernstein Adam January 19 2018 Bradford Dillman multifaceted and prolific actor of stage and screen dies at 87 The Washington Post Retrieved January 23 2018 External links editBradford Dillman at the Internet Broadway Database nbsp Cinema Retro s interview with Bradford Dillman Bradford Dillman at IMDb nbsp Bradford Dillman at the TCM Movie Database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bradford Dillman amp oldid 1188123277, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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