Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman was born in San Francisco, California, United States on April 14th, 1930 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 87, Bradford Dillman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Bradford Dillman (February 14, 1930-January 16, 2018) was an American actor and writer.
Early life
Bradford Dillman was born in San Francisco on April 14, 1930, the son of Dean Dillman, a stockbroker, and Josephine (née Moore). Charles Francis Dillman and Stella Borland Dean were Bradford's paternal grandparents. He attended Town School for Boys and St. Ignatius High School. He later attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, where he became involved with school drama performances. He enlisted in the United States while attending Yale University. In 1948, the Naval Reserve was established. As a student, he was a member of Yale Dramatic Association, Fence Club, Torch Honor Society, The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, WYBC, and Berzelius. He earned a BA in English Literature from Yale in 1951.
After graduating, he joined the United States Marine Corps as an officer candidate, including training at Parris Island. In September 1951, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. His orders were changed as he was planning to deploy to Korea and spent the remainder of his time in the Marine Corps, from 1951 to 1953, teaching in the Instructors' Orientation Course, and the Instructors' Orientation Course taught communication. In 1953, he was commissioned as the first lieutenant.
Personal life
Dillman was married to Frieda Harding and had two children with her (Jeffrey and Pamela). Suzy Parker, an actor and actress, appeared in A Circle of Deception (1960). Dinah, Charles, and Christopher were married on April 20, 1963, the couple had three children; Dinah, Christopher, and Christopher. The couple lived together until Parker's death on May 3, 2003.
Dillman was a cousin of eccentric author and heiress Aimee Crocker.
Dillman lived in Montecito, California, for many years, raising funds for medical research. He died in Santa Barbara, California, on January 16, 2018, at the age of 87, from pneumonia-related issues.
Bradford Dillman was the actor's real name. "Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony, dramatic name, so I kept it," he said.
Career
Dillman spent several seasons apprenticing with the Sharon, Connecticut Playhouse before making his professional debut in The Scarecrow in 1953.
In November 1956, Dillman first appeared in a Broadway play as part of Eugene O'Neill's Journey into Night's premiere cast. Edmund Tyrone, the author's alter-ego protagonist, received a Theatre World Award for his role. Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, and Jason Robards Jr. appeared on the program from 390 performances until March 1958.
He appeared in an episode of The Big Picture as an MP patrolling the city of Augusta, Georgia, during 1955. Katharine Cornell appeared in a Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1940 play There Shall Be No Night in 1957.
In the film melodrama A Certain Smile (1958), Dillman was cast. In Love and War (1958), a war film starring many of 20th century Fox's young talent actors for which he received a Golden Globe award, followed him. It was a financial success. Compulsion (1959), starring Dillman, Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles for producer Richard Zanuck and director Richard Fleischer, was also available in 1959.
At the Cannes Film Festival, Dillman received an award for Best Actor with Stockwell and Welles. Dillman was reunited with Welles, Fleischer, and Zanuck for Crack in the Mirror (1960), filmed in Paris, after making the film A Circle of Deception (1960) in London. It was unsuccessful. In Hollywood, Fox starred Dillman in support of Yves Montand and Lee Remick in Sanctuary (1961). In Francis of Assisi (1961), they had him also in the title role.
When he left Fox, Dillman mainly concentrated on television. In a 1963 episode of The Virginian titled "Echo of Another Day," he appeared. In February 1963, he co-starred with Diana Hyland in the Alfred Hitchcock Hour's "To Catch A Butterfly," 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). In television series such as The F.B.I., he appeared guest-starred. (six episodes); Ironside (two episodes), Shane, The Name of the Game, Columbo, The Golden Hour, Mission Impossible, The Greatest Show on Earth, Breaking Point, Mission Impossible, Three for the Road, Wonder Woman, and a two-part episode of The Man From U.C.L.E. (1968).
Dillman appeared in two episodes of The Big Valley (1965–69), including "Day of the Comet," broadcast on December 26, 1966; and the second time in season three, episode 9, titled "A Noose is Waiting," which was broadcast on November 13, 1967. During this period, he appeared in occasional films, including A Rage to Live (1965), Sergeant Ryker (1968), and The Bridge at Remagen (1969).
In the television version of H.P., Dillman played painter Richard Pickman. Pickman's Model, Lovecraft's 1926 tale, was featured as the opening act of a 1971 Night Gallery exhibition. In "the Greenhouse Jungle," the second episode of Columbo's second season (initially aired on October 15, 1972), he appeared as Tony Goodland.
Dillman appeared in made-for-television films such as Fear No Evil (1969), Moon of the Wolf (1972), and Deliver Us From Evil (1973). Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), The Way We Were (1975), Gold (1974), The Enforcer (1978), Lords of the Deep (1989), and Lords of the Deep (1989). He appeared in ten episodes of Falcon Crest (1982–83), as well as two of Dynasty (1984). She Wrote's last known acting appearance on the series was on an episode of Murder, his eighth guest appearance on the series.
Inside The New York Giants, Dillman's football fan book, was published in 1995.