Bradford Dillman
Date of birth: 1930-04-14
Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Brad 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.
Movie Credits
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971-05-20
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a s
The Way We Were
1973-10-17
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hu
Keep Our Honor Bright
1953-10-14
A college student faces embarrassment and expulsion for having cheated on an exam. Her fiance is a m
The Enforcer
1976-12-16
Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they m
Sudden Impact
1983-12-08
When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Di
Piranha
1978-08-03
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests becom
The Mephisto Waltz
1971-04-09
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Dunc
Guyana: Crime of the Century
1979-09-20
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly c
The Iceman Cometh
1973-11-10
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the
Compulsion
1959-04-01
Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves
The Disappearance of Flight 412
1974-10-01
Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford) is commander of the Whitney Radar Test Group, which has been experie
The Bridge at Remagen
1969-06-25
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and Amer
Bug
1975-06-06
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed
Love and Bullets
1979-04-05
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goon
The Swarm
1978-06-26
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisibl
Gold
1974-06-08
Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles acro
Moon of the Wolf
1972-09-26
After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974-08-29
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harr
Monstrosity
1963-09-01
A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of
Treasure of the Amazon
1985-05-30
An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle
Chosen Survivors
1974-05-24
A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a fut
The Helicopter Spies
1968-05-23
The men from U.N.C.L.E must stop a band of would-be sorcerers from using a deadly weapon.
Francis of Assisi
1961-07-12
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army
A Certain Smile
1958-07-31
A pretty Parisian law student falls in love with her boyfriend's uncle.
Mastermind
1976-09-10
Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?
Brother John
1971-08-15
An enigmatic man returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the su
Adventures of the Queen
1975-02-14
A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a millionai
A Rage to Live
1965-10-20
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble r
The Lincoln Conspiracy
1977-10-01
Speculates that John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being t
The Hostage Heart
1977-09-09
When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to
Inside 'the Swarm'
1978-01-01
A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen's all-star disaster flick The
Revenge!
1971-11-06
A deranged mother avenges herself on the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a
Deliver Us from Evil
1973-09-11
Several men hiking in the mountains discover an injured skyjacker who parachuted from a plane with $
Sanctuary
1961-04-18
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for
Lords of the Deep
1989-06-02
Man has finally conquered the ocean. America's first self-contained undersea laboratory is the pride
Heroes Stand Alone
1989-01-01
Chad Everett and his crack team of commandoes are sent into enemy territory in South America to reco
The Eyes of Charles Sand
1972-02-29
A young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave.
Covenant
1985-08-05
A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of e
Five Desperate Women
1971-09-28
Five young women find themselves at the mercy of a mysterious killer while vacationing on an isolate
The Plainsman
1966-08-01
Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
Longstreet
1971-02-23
The pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator i
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
1971-11-30
A U.S. Senator is spirited away to a secret New Mexico medical lab after a serious car crash. His in
Circle of Deception
1960-11-01
Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divu
Running Scared
1980-11-01
It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera a
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970-09-11
War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby So
The Amsterdam Kill
1977-12-26
Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug mo
The Legend of Walks Far Woman
1980-08-24
Walks Far Woman is a an Indigenous woman of the Blackfoot tribe. She takes revenge on two men who ki
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
1972-03-06
The Delphi Bureau is a top-secret spy cadre answerable only to the U.S. president. The organization
Fear No Evil
1969-03-03
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by
Jigsaw
1968-06-05
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the midd
Jane
1962-01-02
Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas pre
Please Call It Murder
1975-01-21
The wife of an executive finds her husband shot to death and destroys his suicide note in order to c
Murder or Mercy
1974-04-10
An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy
In Love and War
1958-10-31
Three Marines take shore leave in San Francisco during World War II. Frankie O'Neill visits his lowe
Kingston
1976-09-15
In this pilot for the "Kingston: Confidential" series, an investigative reporter, backed by the head
Tourist
1980-07-17
A group of tourists on a "once-in-a-lifetime" European vacation try to rekindle their romances with
Widow
1976-01-22
A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband.
Crack in the Mirror
1960-05-19
Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
1975-03-27
The curse of the legendary blue Hope Diamond on all its owners is dramatized from the gem's discover
Street Killing
1976-09-12
In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a rece
A Black Ribbon for Deborah
1974-10-04
A young woman with psychic powers is obsessed with having a child. Even though she is unable to conc
Sergeant Ryker
1968-02-01
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then return
Demon, Demon
1975-11-11
An executive falls in love with and marries his secretary. However, he soon begins to suspect that s
Force Five
1975-03-28
The Memory of Eva Ryker
1980-05-05
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed d
The Heart of Justice
1992-10-14
David Leader investigates a seemingly senseless murder, and in the course of it is drawn into the la
Death in Deep Water
1975-11-04
A former hitman hides out in a remote fishing village but his secret soon begins to surface.
Before and After
1979-10-05
Patty Duke loses weight and discovers her husband has been cheating on her.
The Man Outside
1987-12-11
A lawyer, running away from his past, becomes a recluse in the Alabama woods and becomes the primary
One Away
1976-01-01
Two brothers plot to get their third brother out of jail.
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
1979-03-05
The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardro
Last Bride Of Salem
1974-05-08
A woman tries to protect her family from supernatural forces who are trying to take control.
Black Water Gold
1970-01-06
A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an hi
The Next Voice You See
1975-05-17
An American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first return
Hot Pursuit
1984-09-22
Jim (a practicing veterinarian) and Kate (an automotive engineer) live a nice upper-middle class exi