Bradford Dillman

Born: 1930-04-14, San Francisco, California, USA

Died: 2018-01-16

Biography

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

Filmography

• Ironside (1967)
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Dynasty (1981)
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)
• Dr. Kildare (1961)
• The Wild Wild West (1965)
• Night Gallery (1970)
• The Virginian (1962)
• Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969)
• The Big Valley (1965)
• Hotel (1982)
• Climax! (1954)
• The F.B.I. (1965)
• The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
• Ben Casey (1961)
• Medical Center (1969)
• Matt Houston (1982)
• McCloud (1970)
• Felony Squad (1966)
• Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
• 12 O'Clock High (1964)
• The Mod Squad (1968)
• Alcoa Premiere (1961)
• Espionage (1963)
• Breaking Point (1963)
• The Manhunter (1974)
• Sudden Impact (1983)
• Medical Story (1975)
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)