Walter Reed
actor
- Birth name:
- Walter Reed Smith
- Born:
- 1916-02-10, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Died:
- 2001-08-20, Santa Cruz, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
The son of an Army officer, Walter Reed was born in Washington and grew up in Honolulu and Los Angeles, where he attended school with the children of movie stars. After his parents' divorce, and, during the darkest days of the Depression, 17-year-old Reed decided to try acting as a career and made a two-week trip to New York (via hitched rides on railroad freight cars, amidst hobos and tramps) to look for work on the stage. He worked in stock and on Broadway and, with an assist from actor Joel McCrea, broke into pictures in the early 1940s.
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