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Walter Reed

Highest Rated: 100% Seven Men From Now (1956)

Lowest Rated: 83% Young Man With a Horn (1950)

Birthday: Feb 10, 1916

Birthplace: Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA

The early stages of Western star Walter Reed's acting career played almost in reverse. Raised in Los Angeles among the sons and daughters of prominent performers during the Great Depression, Reed skipped town at 17 and rode the rails to New York, where he broke into the Industry as a Broadway performer. Reportedly aided by fellow Western icon Joel McCrea, Reed returned home years later and made his true Hollywood debut as a platoon leader in a 1941 military training film. Reed quickly became a staple in the machismo-driven Western genre, giving his most famous performance as a cowardly stagecoach driver in the 1956 Budd Boetticher picture "Seven Men from Now," which proved to be the director's most famous effort. Throughout the '50s, Reed enjoyed branching out from his reputation as a cowboy. In 1950, he played a pilot in the sci-fi serial "Flying Disc Man from Mars," and later a foreman in "Superman and the Mole-Men." In the latter half of the decade, Reed made a graceful transition into television, where he soon found himself appearing on half a dozen series per year. Among his more memorable stints were as a newscaster on the family comedy "Dennis the Menace" and a gaggle of guest appearances on the detective drama "77 Sunset Strip." Reed retired from acting in 1972.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 82% Seven Men From Now
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91% 89% Sergeant Rutledge
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83% 72% Young Man With a Horn
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Missile Monsters
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The Yellow Tomahawk
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13 Fighting Men
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42% Dance With Me Henry
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30% The Clown
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26% How to Make a Monster
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30% Return of the Bad Men
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Filmography

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Convict Stage 1965 Sam Gill Actor Where Love Has Gone 32% 1964 George Babson Actor Sergeant Rutledge 91% 89% 1960 Capt. McAfee (uncredited) Actor 13 Fighting Men 1960 Col. Jeffers Actor Macumba Love 1960 J. Peter weils Actor How to Make a Monster 26% 1958 Detective Thompson Actor Missile Monsters 1958 Kent Fowler Actor The Deep Six 14% 1958 Paul Clemson Actor Slim Carter 1957 Richard L. Howard Actor Emergency Hospital 1956 Police Sgt. Paul Arnold Actor Seven Men From Now 100% 82% 1956 John Greer Actor Dance With Me Henry 42% 1956 Drake Actor The Far Horizons 42% 1955 Cruzatte Actor Dangerous Mission 17% 1954 Ranger Dobson Actor The Yellow Tomahawk 1954 Keats Actor War Paint 1953 Trooper Allison Actor The Clown 30% 1953 Joe Hoagley Actor Seminole 43% 1953 Farmer Actor Horizons West 38% 1952 Layton Actor The Blazing Forest 1952 Max Actor Target 1952 Martin Conroy Actor Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion 1951 Hal Duncan Actor Superman and the Mole Men 80% 1951 Bill Corrigan Actor The Sun Sets at Dawn 1951 The Chaplain Actor The Eagle and the Hawk 17% 1950 Jones Actor
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