Brad Harris(1933-2017)
- Actor
- Stunts
- Producer
Born in St. Anthony, a small town in eastern Idaho, Bradford Harris
attended UCLA in the early 1950s, where he played fullback on the
football team while studying economics. His studies may have been
intended as the groundwork for a career in his family's banking
business, but Harris instead drifted into the fringes of Los Angeles'
movie industry, and secured employment as a stunt man. In the late
1950s he traveled to Europe as the stunt co-ordinator for a
German-Italian co-production. Soon he found himself working as a
second-unit director, and that led to a starring role in
Goliath Against the Giants (1961).
His good looks and muscular build kept him in demand during the era of
"sword and sandal" movies, and when this genre began to fade away, he
moved into "spaghetti westerns" and a spate of action movies with an
emphasis on spy thrillers. In 1967 he married actress
Olga Schoberová.
