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.
Bradford Dillman Biography / Wiki
| Name | Bradford Dillman |
| Also Know | Brad Dillman |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1930-04-14 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 87 |
| Deathday | 2018-01-16 |
Bradford Dillman Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Piranha | Paul Grogan | 1978-08-03 | When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort’s rivers, the guests become their next meal…. |
| Bug | Prof. James Parmiter | 1975-06-06 | An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The s… |
| Francis of Assisi | Francis Bernardone of Assisi | 1961-07-12 | In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his… |
| The Lincoln Conspiracy | John Wilkes Booth | 1977-10-01 | Speculative Sunn Classics chestnut detailing a wide-ranging government conspiracy to murder the 16th American President and the subsequent cover up an… |
| Lords of the Deep | Dobler | 1989-06-02 | Man has finally conquered the ocean. America’s first self-contained undersea laboratory is the pride of the nation, and expectations are high for an e… |
| Circle of Deception | Capt. Paul Raine | 1960-11-01 | Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured…. |
| Murder or Mercy | Sam Champion | 1974-04-10 | An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife…. |
| A Black Ribbon for Deborah | Michel Lagrange | 1974-10-04 | A young woman with psychic powers is obsessed with having a child. Even though she is unable to conceive, her desire to do so creates a supernatural f… |
| Demon, Demon | Sam | 1975-11-11 | An executive falls in love with and marries his secretary. However, he soon begins to suspect that she may be a demon who is after possession of his s… |
| Death in Deep Water | Gary Stevens | 1975-11-04 | A former hitman hides out in a remote fishing village but his secret soon begins to surface…. |
| One Away | Ruben Bass | 1976-01-01 | Two brothers plot to get their third brother out of jail…. |
| 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 appearance in England at an engangement party wher… | |
| Please Call It Murder | Lt. Danny Ianello | 1975-01-21 | The wife of an executive finds her husband shot to death and destroys his suicide note in order to claim his insurance…. |
| The Disappearance of Flight 412 | Maj. Mike Dunning | 1974-10-01 | Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford) is commander of the Whitney Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft…. |
| A Rage to Live | Sidney Tate | 1965-10-20 | Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous at… |
| The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler | Sen. Clayton 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 injuries are completely healed by a secret organizat… |
| Street Killing | Howard Bronstein | 1976-09-12 | In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a recent mugging. In the end, he is led to convict a hig… |
| Heroes Stand Alone | Walt Simmons | 1989-01-01 | Chad Everett and his crack team of commandoes are sent into enemy territory in South America to recover the black box from a crashed Air Force cargo p… |
| Sergeant Ryker | Capt. David Young | 1968-02-01 | During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy.He’s court-martialed and … |
| The Legend of Walks Far Woman | Singer | 1982-05-30 | Walks Far Woman is a squaw of the Blackfoot tribe. She takes revenge on two men who killed her husband and then she is ostracized by her tribe. She th… |
| Before and After | Jack Matthews | 1979-10-05 | Patty Duke loses weight and discovers her husband has been cheating on her…. |
| Jennifer: A Woman’s Story | Donald Prince | 1979-03-05 | The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardroom intrigue in her bitter struggle to maintain con… |
| Last Bride Of Salem | Matt Clifton | 1974-05-08 | A woman tries to protect her family from supernatural forces who are trying to take control…. |
| Black Water Gold | Lyle Fawcett | 1970-01-06 | A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an historic Spanish galleon before a well-armed commerc… |
| Widow | Richard | 1976-01-22 | A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband…. |
| Tourist | Harry Flemington | 1980-07-17 | A group of tourists on a “once-in-a-lifetime” European vacation try to rekindle their romances with themselves…. |
| Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Dr. Lewis Dixon | 1971-05-20 | The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans… |
| The Way We Were | J.J. | 1973-10-17 | Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart…. |
| Moon of the Wolf | Andrew Rodanthe | 1972-09-26 | After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf…. |
| 99 and 44/100% Dead | Big Eddie | 1974-08-29 | Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry’s new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank’s e… |
| Brother John | Lloyd Thomas | 1971-08-15 | An enigmatic man (Sidney Poitier) returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials… |
| Revenge! | Frank Klaner | 1971-11-06 | A deranged mother avenges herself on the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement…. |
| Deliver Us from Evil | Steven Dennis | 1973-09-11 | Several men hiking in the mountains discover an injured skyjacker who parachuted from a plane with $600,000. They kill him, then start fighting each o… |
| Sanctuary | Gowan Stevens | 1961-04-18 | In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake’s infant child. Temple,… |
| Five Desperate Women | Jim Meeker | 1971-09-28 | Five young women vacation together at a resort on an isolated island. They are the resort’s only customers and, aside from the boat captain who brough… |
| Longstreet | Duke Paige | 1971-02-23 | The pilot for the 1971 – 1972 series of the same title. Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator in New Orleans loses his sight and his wife in an e… |
| Jigsaw | Jonathan Fields | 1968-06-05 | After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot…. |
| Crack in the Mirror | Larnier / Claude | 1960-05-19 | A Story of two love triangles…… |
| Jane | Self | 1962-01-02 | Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for Broadw… |
| The Man Outside | Frank Simmons | 1987-12-11 | A lawyer, running away from his past, becomes a recluse in the Alabama woods and becomes the primary suspect in the abduction of a local boy…. |
| The Enforcer | Captain McKay | 1976-12-20 | Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vie… |
| Sudden Impact | Captain Briggs | 1983-12-07 | When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it’s up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, t… |
| The Mephisto Waltz | Bill Delancey | 1971-04-09 | A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not… |
| Guyana: Crime of the Century | Dr. Gary Shaw | 1979-09-20 | This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who… |
| Compulsion | Arthur A. Straus | 1959-04-01 | Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishm… |
| The Bridge at Remagen | Maj. Barnes | 1969-06-25 | In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead acros… |
| Treasure of the Amazon | Clark | 1985-05-30 | An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle…. |
| Chosen Survivors | Peter Macomber | 1974-05-24 | A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, nearly two mil… |
| The Helicopter Spies | Luther Sebastian | 1968-05-23 | The men from U.N.C.L.E must stop a band of would-be sorcerers from using a deadly weapon…. |
| A Certain Smile | Bertrand Griot | 1958-07-31 | A pretty Parisian law student falls in love with her boyfriend’s uncle…. |
| Mastermind | Jabez Link | 1969-06-03 | Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?) played by Felix Silas. The inspector has delusio… |
| Adventures of the Queen | Martin Reed | 1975-02-14 | A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a millionaire pays him the the contents of a safe deposit box… |
| Running Scared | Arthur Jaeger | 1980-11-01 | It’s 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military f… |
| The Amsterdam Kill | Odums | 1977-12-26 | Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug money, is hired by Chung Wei, a leader in the Amster… |
| Fear No Evil | Paul Varney | 1969-03-03 | A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man’s fiance di… |
| The Plainsman | Lt. Stiles | 1966-08-01 | Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war…. |
| The Iceman Cometh | Willie Oban | 1973-11-10 | Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props… |
| Gold | Manfred Steyner | 1974-06-08 | Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drillin… |
| The Eyes of Charles Sand | Jeffrey Winslow | 1972-02-29 | A young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave…. |
| In Love and War | Alan Newcombe | 1958-10-31 | Three Marines take shore leave in San Francisco during World War II. Frankie O’Neill visits his lower-class dysfunctional family; Nico Kantaylis visit… |
| The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond | Ned McLean | 1975-03-27 | The curse of the legendary blue Hope Diamond on all its owners is dramatized from the gem’s discovery in 17th Century India until its donation to the … |
| The Memory of Eva Ryker | Jason Eddington | 1980-05-07 | A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an inves… |
| The Delphi Bureau | Randy Jamison | 1972-03-06 | A government agent with a photographic memory is assigned to solve the disappearance of an entire fleet of old Air Force planes…. |
| Kingston | Avery Stanton | 1976-09-15 | In this pilot for the “Kingston: Confidential” series, an investigative reporter, backed by the head of a newspaper and TV chain, uncovers a plot to u… |
| The Greenhouse Jungle | Tony Goodland | 1975-03-27 | Columbo arrives at a kidnapping case, which at some point turns to worse. Everything seems to be related to a trust fund managed by a man with a great… |
| Love and Bullets | Jim Brickman | 1979-04-05 | Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa’s goons are threatening Jackie’s life, the FBI moves in … |
| Force Five | Michael Dominick | 1975-03-28 | … |
| Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? | Capt. Myerson | 1970-09-11 | War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries t… |
| The Heart of Justice | Mr. Burgess | 1992-10-14 | David Leader investigates a seemingly senseless murder, and in the course of it is drawn into the labyrinth of a sinisterly unique wealthy family…… |
| Covenant | Eric Noble | 1985-08-05 | A powerful family that controls the world’s banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group name… |
| Monstrosity | Narrator (voice; uncredited) | 1963-09-01 | A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman…. |
| Inside ‘the Swarm’ | Self | 1978-01-01 | A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen’s all-star disaster flick The Swarm…. |
| The Swarm | Maj. Baker | 1978-07-14 | Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have… |
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