Richard Bradford

Richard Bradford

1937-11-10 Tyler, Texas, USA 53 Credits

Biography

Richard Bradford (November 10, 1934 – March 22, 2016) was an American actor, known for his lead role as former CIA agent turned private eye McGill in the British television adventure series Man in a Suitcase, made by ITC and the films The Missouri Breaks, An Enemy of The People, The Legend of Billie Jean, The Untouchables, and Internal Affairs. His photograph was used as the sleeve image for The Smiths 1986 single, Panic.

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The Lost City

The Lost City

2005

as Don Donoso Fellove

6.1
Acting

In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the o...

L.A. County 187

L.A. County 187

2003

as Victor Canizales

Acting

It's another night in L.A. County 187 for policeman Walter Drazin and his team, but when they find the corpses of an Asian family in a burned down clu...

Hawaiian Gardens

Hawaiian Gardens

2001

as Shulzov

1.0
Acting

A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, t...

The Man from Elysian Fields

The Man from Elysian Fields

2001

as Edward Rodgers

5.9
Acting

A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined wi...

Just the Ticket

Just the Ticket

1998

as Benny Moran

5.5
Acting

Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps h...

Rag and Bone

Rag and Bone

1998

as Evan Moran

3.3
Acting

The life of a priest seconded to a New Orleans police department begins to fall apart when he is wrongly implicated in the shooting of a suspect. Howe...

Gold Coast

Gold Coast

1997

as Frank DiCilia

5.8
Acting

Karen stands to inherit millions from her dead husband on one condition: she must stay away from other men. Two of the deceased's former associates se...

Hoodlum

Hoodlum

1997

as Captain Foley

6.4
Acting

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harle...

The Chamber

The Chamber

1996

as Wyn Lettner

6.0
Acting

Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has n...

Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling

Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling

1995

as Martin Zibiski

6.7
Acting

Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a prestigious promotion, while Mary Beth has to deal with t...

Steal Big Steal Little

Steal Big Steal Little

1995

as Nick Zingaro

4.3
Acting

Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but...

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

1995

as Ira Reiner

7.1
Acting

The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unquali...

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long

1995

as Judge Benjamin Pavy

7.5
Acting

A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression.

The Crossing Guard

The Crossing Guard

1995

as Stuart Booth

6.0
Acting

Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.

Final Mission

Final Mission

1994

as Maurice Vick

4.2
Acting

Captain Tom "Outlaw" Waters is one of four Air Force pilots taking part in a "black" Defense project involving virtual reality. The project is managed...

Midnight Run for Your Life

Midnight Run for Your Life

1994

as Lt. Breem

4.6
Acting

When an accused murderer flees to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, bounty hunter Jack Walsh is hired to bring her back, unaware that the police, a hitman and a...

When a Man Loves a Woman

When a Man Loves a Woman

1994

as Angry Man Watching TV (uncredited)

6.6
Acting

An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety....

Arctic Blue

Arctic Blue

1993

as Wilder

4.5
Acting

Eric Desmond, a committed environmentalist, is accidentally involved in the transfer of Ben Corbett, a ruthless killer, from an isolated Alaskan villa...

Dr. Giggles

Dr. Giggles

1992

as Officer Hank Magruder

5.5
Acting

In 1957, Evan Rendell flees after his father is lynched for killing multiple patients in his effort to find a replacement heart for his ailing wife. A...

Cold Heaven

Cold Heaven

1992

as Monsignor Cassidy

4.6
Acting

An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to life.

Under Cover of Darkness

1992

as Nathan Franklin

2.0
Acting

A man finds his best friend involved in an insurance scam linked to a mine explosion that devastated their hometown.

Ambition

1991

as Jordan

3.8
Acting

Mitchell Osgood dreams of being a famous writer, but the book he has written constantly is rejected by the editors. When the psychopathic killer Alber...

Servants of Twilight

Servants of Twilight

1991

as Henry Rankin

5.0
Acting

Based on the novel by Dean R. Koontz, this action packed thriller features Bruce Greenwood as a private detective hired to protect a little boy from a...

Bump in the Night

Bump in the Night

1991

as Sgt. Pete Mooney

5.8
Acting

Martha "Red" Tierney used to be a hot-shot reporter, but that was before alcohol took over her life. One morning Martha's son, Jonathan, leaves for sc...

Internal Affairs

Internal Affairs

1990

as Grieb

6.3
Acting

Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the a...

Night Game

Night Game

1989

as Nelson

4.3
Acting

A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.

Heart of Dixie

Heart of Dixie

1989

as Judge Courtney Claibourne

5.5
Acting

In the 1950s, three young sorority women re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement.

Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders

Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders

1989

as Terry O'Brien

5.5
Acting

Honest cop in corrupt 1940s Los Angeles fights against gangsters who are kidnapping and selling women into prostitution.

Wildfire

Wildfire

1988

as Gene

4.0
Acting

Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, D...

Sunset

Sunset

1988

as Captain Blackworth

5.6
Acting

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Permanent Record

Permanent Record

1988

as Leo Verdell

6.3
Acting

David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school,...

The Milagro Beanfield War

The Milagro Beanfield War

1988

as Ladd Devine

6.5
Acting

The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real ...

Little Nikita

Little Nikita

1988

as Konstantin Karpov

6.0
Acting

An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.

The Untouchables

The Untouchables

1987

as Mike

7.8
Acting

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname ...

Resting Place

Resting Place

1986

as Gen. Willard P. Hauer

6.1
Acting

A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the...

The Trip to Bountiful

The Trip to Bountiful

1985

as Sheriff

7.3
Acting

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked so...

The Legend of Billie Jean

The Legend of Billie Jean

1985

as Pyatt

6.5
Acting

Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one da...

The Mean Season

The Mean Season

1985

as Phil Wilson

6.3
Acting

A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As t...

Badge of the Assassin

Badge of the Assassin

1985

as L.J. Delsa

5.0
Acting

Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police dete...

Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge

1984

as Gen. George Markham

6.0
Acting

While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that results in a pregnancy. Cheever convinces the girl...

Best Kept Secrets

Best Kept Secrets

1984

as Chief Gilmore

7.5
Acting

Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forr...

Running Hot

Running Hot

1984

as Tom Bond

5.0
Acting

A teen convicted of murdering his father escapes from authorities and heads for Arizona with a prostitute.

Lookin' to Get Out

Lookin' to Get Out

1982

as Bernie Gold

4.9
Acting

Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble would do, they hurry to the gambling capital ...

Hammett

Hammett

1982

as Detective Bradford

6.2
Acting

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living...

The Escape Artist

The Escape Artist

1982

as Sam (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback show...

Missing

Missing

1982

as Andrew Babcock

7.3
Acting

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his s...

More American Graffiti

More American Graffiti

1979

as Major Creech

5.1
Acting

College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

Charleston

Charleston

1979

as Cluskey

Acting

Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following the...

Goin' South

Goin' South

1978

as Sheriff Kyle

5.8
Acting

Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War...

An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People

1978

as Captain Forster

6.5
Acting

A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann,...

The Missouri Breaks

The Missouri Breaks

1976

as Pete Marker

6.5
Acting

When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a sm...

Operation Heartbeat

Operation Heartbeat

1969

as Dr. Joseph Gannon

Acting

Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart could be transplanted into the doctor's ailing mentor and ...

The Chase

The Chase

1966

as Damon Fuller

7.1
Acting

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.