David Shedd Bradley (6 April 1920 in Winnetka, Illinois â€" 19
December 1997 in Los Angeles, California) was an American motion
picture director, actor, film collector, and university
instructor.David Shedd Bradley was a grandson of Charles Banks Shedd,
a prominent Chicago real estate investor, banker, and financier, and
civic leader who also served as an executive officer of the
Knickerbocker Ice Company of Chicago, which had been founded
principally by Edward Avery Shedd, younger brother of Charles Banks
Shedd. He attended the Todd School for Boys (from which Orson Welles
had graduated in 1931) from 1935 to 1937, and Lake Forest Academy
during 1937â€"1940. He then spent a year at the Goodman Memorial
Theatre Drama Department of the Art Institute of Chicago. During this
time, he also directed a feature-length 16 mm version of Peer Gynt
with 17-year-old Charlton Heston in the title role.His studies at
Northwestern University were interrupted by three years’ service in
the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. He graduated in 1950
with Bachelor of Science degree from the university's School of
Speech. On the basis of the 16 mm feature Julius Caesar that he had
produced and directed in Chicago (and which also starred Charlton
Heston), he was hired as a directing intern by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in
1950. After the teen drama Dragstrip Riot (1958), he went on to direct
Madmen of Mandoras, padded for television into the infamous They Saved
Hitler's Brain, which proved to be his final output.Bradley later
taught film studies at UCLA and Santa Monica City College.
December 1997 in Los Angeles, California) was an American motion
picture director, actor, film collector, and university
instructor.David Shedd Bradley was a grandson of Charles Banks Shedd,
a prominent Chicago real estate investor, banker, and financier, and
civic leader who also served as an executive officer of the
Knickerbocker Ice Company of Chicago, which had been founded
principally by Edward Avery Shedd, younger brother of Charles Banks
Shedd. He attended the Todd School for Boys (from which Orson Welles
had graduated in 1931) from 1935 to 1937, and Lake Forest Academy
during 1937â€"1940. He then spent a year at the Goodman Memorial
Theatre Drama Department of the Art Institute of Chicago. During this
time, he also directed a feature-length 16 mm version of Peer Gynt
with 17-year-old Charlton Heston in the title role.His studies at
Northwestern University were interrupted by three years’ service in
the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. He graduated in 1950
with Bachelor of Science degree from the university's School of
Speech. On the basis of the 16 mm feature Julius Caesar that he had
produced and directed in Chicago (and which also starred Charlton
Heston), he was hired as a directing intern by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in
1950. After the teen drama Dragstrip Riot (1958), he went on to direct
Madmen of Mandoras, padded for television into the infamous They Saved
Hitler's Brain, which proved to be his final output.Bradley later
taught film studies at UCLA and Santa Monica City College.
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