CTVA - Profile - Actor - Lane Bradford
Profile -Actor - Lane Bradford imdb
SOME ACTORS WERE BORN TO PLAY CERTAIN ROLES. LANE
BRADFORD WAS BORN TO
PLAY VILLAINS. TWO CHARACTERISTICS GOING FOR HIM WAS HIS HARD-LOOKING
FACIAL FEATURES AND HIS DEEP GROWLING VOICE.
LANE'S FIRST FILM AS AN ACTOR WAS A 1940's TIM MCCOY WESTERN
TITLED: "FRONTIER CRUSADER"(1940).
AFTER HIS FIRST FILM, LANE WORKED EXCLUSIVELY IN WESTERNS RIGHT INTO THE
1950'S. THE STUDIO THAT UTILIZED HIS TALENTS MORE THAN ANYONE WAS
REPUBLIC PICTURES. DURING THE LATE 40'S AND EARLY 50'S HE APPEARED WITH
REPUBLIC STARS, ROY ROGERS, ALAN 'ROCKY' LANE AND MONTE HALE.
HIS FIRST REPUBLIC SERIAL WAS:
"ADVENTURES OF FRANK AND JESSIE JAMES"(1948).
OTHER SERIALS THAT FOLLOWED WERE:
"THE INVISIBLE MONSTER"(1950),
"DON DAREDEVIL RIDES AGAIN"(1951)(A ZORRO-TYPE CHARACTER),
AND "ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE"(1952).
LANE BRADFORD'S MOST BUSIEST TIME AS AN ACTOR WAS THE 1950'S. NOT ONLY
DID HE APPEAR IN ONE FULL-LENGTH FEATURE AFTER ANOTHER, BUT ALSO NUMEROUS
TV GUEST APPEARANCES, ALWAYS PLAYING THE HARD-BITTEN HEAVY.
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS TRUE-BELIEVE IT OR NOT. LANE BRADFORD DID PLAY
ONE GOOD-GUY ROLE IN HIS LONG AND SUCCESSFUL CAREER.
IT WAS A TV SERIES, "THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN", A 1953
EPISODE TITLED: "JET ACE". LANE PLAYING CAPT CHRIS WHITE, PERRY WHITE'S
NEPHEW. LANE BRADFORD'S CREDITS ARE TO NUMEROUS TO LIST.
HE APPEARED IN OVER 132 FEATURE FILMS (MOSTLY WESTERNS),
AND AN ASTOUNDING NUMBER TV APPEARANCES THAT INCLUDED:
"ADVENTURES OF WILD BILL HICKOK"(1951-1958),
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN'(1952-1957),
"DEATH VALLEY DAYS"(1952-1957),
"FURY"(1955-1960),
"ADVENTURES OF RIN TIN TIN"(1954-1959),
"SERGEANT PRESTON OF THE YUKON"(1955-1958),
"TALES OF WELLS FARGO"(1957-1962),
"SEA HUNT"(1958-1961),
"THE ROUGH RIDERS"(1958-1959),
"COLT 45"(1957-1960),
"HOTEL DE PAREE"(1959-1960),
"CORONADO 9"(1959-1960),
"IT TAKES A THIEF"(1968-1970),
"CANNON"(1971-1976).
LANE BRADFORD'S FAMILY BACKGROUND WAS ACTING. THE SON OF ACTOR JOHN MERTON,
LANE WAS WAS KNOW DOUBT BITTEN BY THE ACTING BUG AT A YOUNG AGE, THUS
DEVELOPING INTO A LONG AND REWARDING CAREER.