Bradford Dillman
- Highest Rated: Compulsion (1959)
- Lowest Rated: The Swarm (1978)
- Birthday: Apr 14, 1930
- Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
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Yale graduate Bradford Dillman began his career in the sort of misunderstood-youth roles that had previously been the province of Montgomery Clift and James Dean. His first significant stage success was as the younger son in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night. Signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1958, Dillman at first played standard leading men; his subtle shift to villainy occurred after he was cast as a wealthy psychopath in Compulsion, the 1959 drama based on the Leopold-Loeb case. Compulsion won Dillman an award at the Cannes Film Festival, and also threatened to typecast him for the rest of his film career, notwithstanding his leading role in Fox's Francis of Assisi (1961). It was during his Fox years that Dillman married popular cover girl Suzy Parker. Bradford Dillman has remained much in demand as a television guest star, and in 1965 was the lead on the filmed-in-Britain TV drama series Court-Martial.
Highest Rated Movies
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Compulsion
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The Enforcer
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Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
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Year |
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Jane | Actor | — | 2014 | |
The Heart of Justice | Burgess | — | 1993 | |
Heroes Stand Alone | Walt Simmons | — | 1989 | |
Lords of the Deep | Dobler | — | 1989 | |
Man Outside | Frank Simmons | — | 1986 | |
Treasure of the Amazon | Clark | — | 1985 | |
Treasure of the Amazons | Actor | — | 1984 | |
57% | Sudden Impact | Capt. Briggs | — | 1983 |
The Legend of Walks Far Woman | Actor | — | 1982 | |
Force - Five | Actor | — | 1981 | |
Guyana: Crime of the Century | Dr. Gary Shaw | — | 1980 | |
One Away | Actor | — | 1980 | |
Love and Bullets | Brickman | — | 1979 | |
Jennifer: A Woman's Story | Donald Prince | — | 1979 | |
Running Scared | Arthur Jaeger | — | 1979 | |
72% | Piranha | Paul Grogan | — | 1978 |
11% | The Swarm | Maj. Baker | — | 1978 |
The Amsterdam Kill | Odums | — | 1977 | |
79% | The Enforcer | Capt. McKay | — | 1976 |
25% | Bug | Prof. James Parmiter | — | 1975 |
Chosen Survivors | Peter Macomber | — | 1974 | |
Gold | Manfred | — | 1974 | |
The Disappearance of Flight 412 | Dunning | — | 1974 | |
99 And 44/100% Dead (Call Harry Crown) | Actor | — | 1974 | |
Murder or Mercy? | Actor | — | 1974 | |
Death in Deep Water | Actor | — | 1974 | |
90% | The Iceman Cometh | Willie | — | 1973 |
65% | The Way We Were | J.J. | — | 1973 |
Columbo: The Greenhouse Jungle | Actor | — | 1972 | |
Moon of the Wolf | Andrew Rodanthe | — | 1972 | |
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler | Sen. Clayton Zachary Wheeler | — | 1971 | |
78% | Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Dr. Lewis Dixon | — | 1971 |
67% | The Mephisto Waltz | Bill Delancey | — | 1971 |
Brother John | Lloyd Thomas | — | 1971 | |
Revenge | Frank Klaner | — | 1971 | |
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? | Captain Myerson | — | 1970 | |
The Bridge at Remagen | Maj. Barnes | — | 1969 | |
Black Water Gold | Lyle Wawcett | — | 1969 | |
Mastermind | Jabez Link | — | 1969 | |
The Helicopter Spies | Luther Sebastian | — | 1968 | |
Sergeant Ryker | Capt. David Young | — | 1968 | |
Jigsaw | Jonathan Fields | — | 1968 | |
A Rage to Live | Sidney Tate | — | 1965 | |
Francis of Assisi | Francis Bemardone | — | 1961 | |
Sanctuary | Gowan Stevens | — | 1961 | |
A Circle of Deception | Capt. Paul Raine | — | 1960 | |
Crack in the Mirror | Larnier / Claude | — | 1960 | |
100% | Compulsion | Arthur A. Straus | — | 1959 |
In Love and War | Alan Newcombe | — | 1958 |
TV
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Year |
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Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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Arthur Brent Richard Ellston Dennis McConnell Commissioner Folkes Stone Lt. Kershaw |
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The Incredible Hulk
1978-1982
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Michael Sutton |
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100% |
Wonder Woman (1976)
1975-1979
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Arthur Deal/Thor |
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The Streets of San Francisco
1972-1977
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Tom Fitz |
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Columbo
1968-2003
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Tony |
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970-1977
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Matt Bryan |
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Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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Paul Shipherd Larry Edison |
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Bonanza
1959-1973
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Griff Bannon |
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Ironside
1967-1975
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Prince Dr. William Danner |
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Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-1976
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Ken |
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100% |
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
1964-1968
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Luther Sebastian Sebastian |
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The Wild Wild West
1965-1969
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QUOTES FROM Bradford Dillman CHARACTERS
- Harry Callahan
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Captain if your gonna jerk all these people off don't do it with me.
- Capt. McKay
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That's it Callahan you just got yourself a 60 day suspension.
- Harry Callahan
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Make it 90.
- Capt. McKay
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180, give me your star.
- Harry Callahan
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There's a seven point depository captain.
- Capt. McKay
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What did you say?
- Harry Callahan
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I said stick it in your ass.