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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Lost City
2005
as Don Donoso Fellove
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
2003
as Victor Canizales
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
2001
as Shulzov
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
2001
as Edward Rodgers
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
1998
as Benny Moran
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
1998
as Evan Moran
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
1997
as Frank DiCilia
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
1997
as Captain Foley
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
1996
as Wyn Lettner
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
1995
as Martin Zibiski
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
1995
as Nick Zingaro
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
1995
as Ira Reiner
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
1995
as Judge Benjamin Pavy
A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression.

The Crossing Guard
1995
as Stuart Booth
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
1994
as Maurice Vick
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
1994
as Lt. Breem
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
1994
as Angry Man Watching TV (uncredited)
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
1993
as Wilder
Eric Desmond, a committed environmentalist, is accidentally involved in the transfer of Ben Corbett, a ruthless killer, from an isolated Alaskan villa...

Dr. Giggles
1992
as Officer Hank Magruder
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
1992
as Monsignor Cassidy
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
A man finds his best friend involved in an insurance scam linked to a mine explosion that devastated their hometown.
Ambition
1991
as Jordan
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
1991
as Henry Rankin
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
1991
as Sgt. Pete Mooney
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
1990
as Grieb
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
1989
as Nelson
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
1989
as Judge Courtney Claibourne
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
1989
as Terry O'Brien
Honest cop in corrupt 1940s Los Angeles fights against gangsters who are kidnapping and selling women into prostitution.

Wildfire
1988
as Gene
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
1988
as Captain Blackworth
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Permanent Record
1988
as Leo Verdell
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
1988
as Ladd Devine
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
1988
as Konstantin Karpov
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
1987
as Mike
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
1986
as Gen. Willard P. Hauer
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
1985
as Sheriff
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
1985
as Pyatt
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
1985
as Phil Wilson
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
1985
as L.J. Delsa
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
1984
as Gen. George Markham
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
1984
as Chief Gilmore
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
1984
as Tom Bond
A teen convicted of murdering his father escapes from authorities and heads for Arizona with a prostitute.

Lookin' to Get Out
1982
as Bernie Gold
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
1982
as Detective Bradford
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living...

The Escape Artist
1982
as Sam (uncredited)
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
1982
as Andrew Babcock
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
1979
as Major Creech
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

Charleston
1979
as Cluskey
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
1978
as Sheriff Kyle
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
1978
as Captain Forster
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
1976
as Pete Marker
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
1969
as Dr. Joseph Gannon
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
1966
as Damon Fuller
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.