Bradford Dillman
Actor
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.
Filmography
Sudden Impact
as Captain Briggs 1983
The Enforcer
as Captain McKay 1976
Piranha
as Paul Grogan 1978
The Way We Were
as J.J. 1973
The Swarm
as Maj. Baker 1978
The Bridge at Remagen
as Maj. Barnes 1969
Compulsion
as Arthur A. Straus 1959
Bug
as Prof. James Parmiter 1975
The Mephisto Waltz
as Bill Delancey 1971
Gold
as Manfred Steyner 1974
Monstrosity
as Narrator (voice; uncredited) 1963
Love and Bullets
as Jim Brickman 1979
Moon of the Wolf
as Andrew Rodanthe 1972
Lords of the Deep
as Dobler 1989
Treasure of the Amazon
as Clark 1985
Francis of Assisi
as Francis Bernardone of Assisi 1961