[4] The same year, he was cast as a detective in Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Burt Lancaster and Barbara Stanwyck for Paramount Pictures.

In 1953, Bromfield appeared with Esther Williams, Van Johnson and Tony Martin in Easy to Love.

[5] In the middle 1950s, Bromfield appeared in westerns, such as NBC's Frontier anthology series in the role of a sheriff in the episode "The Hanging at Thunder Butte Creek".

[6][7] In 1960, Bromfield retired from acting to produce sports shows and work as a commercial fisherman off Newport Beach, California.

[9] Bromfield died September 18, 2005, at age 83 from renal failure in Palm Desert, California.