David Bradley (director)

David Shedd Bradley (6 April 1920 in Winnetka, Illinois – 19 December 1997 in Los Angeles, California) was an American motion picture director, actor, film collector, and university instructor.

He attended the Todd School for Boys (from which Orson Welles had graduated in 1931) from 1935 to 1937, and Lake Forest Academy during 1937–1940.

His studies at Northwestern University were interrupted by three years’ service in the U.S. Army Signal Corps motion picture section during World War II.

He worked as a combat photographer during the European campaign, eventually filming the arrival of the Allies in Paris.

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,[6][7] which proved to be his final output.