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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-04-14 (95 years old)

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Bradford Dillman

Biography:

Bradford Dillman was an American stage, screen, and television actor, as well as an author starred in the taut crime drama Compulsion (1959). The lanky, dark-haired Dillman also played Robert Redford's best friend J.J. in The Way We Were (1973).

Dillman also appeared opposite Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry films The Enforcer (1976) and Sudden Impact (1983).

In director Richard Fleischer's Compulsion, derived from the infamous Leopold & Loeb case of the 1920s, Dillman and Stockwell starred as the brazen killers Arthur A. Straus and Judd Steiner, respectively, who think they have committed the perfect murder.

Dillman, Stockwell and Orson Welles (who played their attorney) shared best actor honors at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. The Fox film was an adaptation of a Broadway hit, with Dillman taking on the role that Roddy McDowall had originated on the stage.

Known For

Acting

1992

The Heart of Justice as Mr. Burgess

1989

Heroes Stand Alone as Walt Simmons

1987

The Man Outside as Frank Simmons

1985

Covenant as Eric Noble

1984

Hot Pursuit as Victor Modrian
Murder, She Wrote as Dennis McConnell
Murder, She Wrote as Dep. Police Comm. Bradley Folkes
Murder, She Wrote as Eric Benderson
Murder, She Wrote as Carl Dorner
Murder, She Wrote as Richard Ellston
Murder, She Wrote as Avery Stone
Murder, She Wrote as Arthur Brent
Murder, She Wrote as Simeon Kershaw

1983

Sudden Impact as Captain Briggs

1982

King's Crossing as Paul Hollister

1981

Falcon Crest as Darryl Clayton

1980

Running Scared as Arthur Jaeger
Tourist as Harry Flemington
The Memory of Eva Ryker as Jason Eddington

1979

Love and Bullets as Jim Brickman
Before and After as Jack Matthews

1978

Piranha as Paul Grogan
The Swarm as Maj. Baker

1977

The Lincoln Conspiracy as John Wilkes Booth
The Hostage Heart as Dr. Eric Lake

1976

The Enforcer as Captain McKay
Kingston as Avery Stanton
Widow as Richard
Street Killing as Howard Bronstein
One Away as Ruben Bass
Charlie's Angels as Tony Kramer

1975

Bug as Prof. James Parmiter
Please Call It Murder as Lt. Danny Ianello
Force Five as Michael Dominick
Death in Deep Water as Gary Stevens
Wonder Woman as Arthur Deal III

1974

The Disappearance of Flight 412 as Maj. Mike Dunning
Gold as Manfred Steyner
99 and 44/100% Dead as Big Eddie
Chosen Survivors as Peter Macomber
Murder or Mercy as Sam Champion
A Black Ribbon for Deborah as Michel Lagrange
Last Bride Of Salem as Matt Clifton

1973

The Iceman Cometh as Willie Oban
Deliver Us from Evil as Steven Dennis
Thriller as Stan Kay
Thriller as Gary Stevens
Barnaby Jones as Terry McCormack
Barnaby Jones as Charles Kohlmeyer / Stanley Rickland

1972

Moon of the Wolf as Andrew Rodanthe
The Eyes of Charles Sand as Jeffrey Winslow
The Delphi Bureau as Randy Jamison

1971

The Mephisto Waltz as Bill Delancey
Brother John as Lloyd Thomas
Revenge! as Frank Klaner
Five Desperate Women as Jim Meeker
Longstreet as Duke Paige
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler as Sen. Clayton Zachary Wheeler
Columbo as Tony Goodland

1970

Black Water Gold as Lyle Fawcett
Night Gallery as Richard Upton Pickman (segment "Pickman's Model")

1969

The Bridge at Remagen as Maj. Barnes
Mastermind as Jabez Link
Fear No Evil as Paul Varney
Marcus Welby, M.D. as Ken McGurney
Medical Center as Inspector Fellows

1968

The Helicopter Spies as Luther Sebastian
Jigsaw as Jonathan Fields
Sergeant Ryker as Capt. David Young
The Name of the Game as Earl Keith

1967

1966

The Plainsman as Lt. Stiles
Mission: Impossible as Paul Shipherd
Shane as Maj. George Hackett

1965

A Rage to Live as Sidney Tate
The F.B.I. as Roger Leroy Mason
The Big Valley as Eric Mercer
Court Martial as Capt. David Young
The F.B.I. as George Bellamy
The F.B.I. as Lawrence Reynolds
The F.B.I. as Neil Stryker
The F.B.I. as Curtis Breer
The Big Valley as Dr. James Beldon

1964

Profiles in Courage as Edmund G. Ross

1963

Monstrosity as Narrator (voice; uncredited)
Kraft Suspense Theatre as Capt. David Young

1962

Jane as Self
The Virginian as Sam Harder
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Howard Clements

1961

Francis of Assisi as Francis Bernardone of Assisi
Sanctuary as Gowan Stevens
Dr. Kildare as Tony Warren
Dr. Kildare as Andrew Webb
Dr. Kildare as Rev. Andrew Webb

1960

Circle of Deception as Capt. Paul Raine
Crack in the Mirror as Larnier / Claude

1959

Compulsion as Arthur A. Straus

1958

A Certain Smile as Bertrand Griot
In Love and War as Alan Newcombe
Naked City as Roger Fallon

1955

1954

Climax! as Greg Fletcher

1953

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Erik Valkay