Walter Reed(1916-2001)
- Actor
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.
