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.
Awards & recognition
- Theatre World Award · 1957
Filmography49 titles
Columbo
Night Gallery
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Mission: Impossible
The Wild Wild West
Murder, She Wrote
The Incredible Hulk
McCloud
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Compulsion
Wonder Woman
Barnaby Jones
The Way We Were
The Streets of San Francisco
Thriller
Ironside
The Enforcer
Charlie's Angels
The Bridge at Remagen
Revenge!
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Sudden Impact
Dynasty
Brother John
The Virginian
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
The Big Valley
Piranha
The Iceman Cometh
The Mephisto Waltz
Love and Bullets
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
Gold
Falcon Crest
Naked City
The F.B.I.
Bug
The Amsterdam Kill
Running Scared
The Swarm
The Disappearance of Flight 412
The Legend of Walks Far Woman
Moon of the Wolf
A Rage to Live
Treasure of the Amazon
Black Water Gold
Monstrosity
Lords of the Deep