BRADFORD DILLMAN
BRADFORD
DILLMAN is perhaps best known for his 1956 appearance in the world premiere of Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece Long Day's Journey Into Night, starring Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, and Jason Robards. It was a
year in which he shared a tiny apartment in
Hell's Kitchen with a writer names John Knowles, who was at work on a novel titled A Separate
Peace. The two careers ascended simultaneously. Dillman's inevitable migration to Hollywood produced 76 films, including Compulsion, Francis of Assisi, The
Way We Were, and John Frankenheitner's The
Iceman Cometh. He has been the arrogant
bane to Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry movies and friend to simians in Escape
From the Planet of the Apes. His countless television
episodes include a record 7 Guest Star appearances with Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote.
Cast most frequently as The Bad Guy, he reckons his misdeeds have been responsible for the demise of thousands. He was more
popular with his wife. The late Suzy Parker was an iconic fashion
model. Better, she was a devoted wife and mother.