Personal Info
Birth date
1942-01-16 (83 Years)
Day of death
2024-10-25
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
South Orange, New Jersey, USA
Also known as
Brad English
Bradford English
Biography
James Bradford English Sr. (January 16, 1942 – October 25, 2024) was an American character actor known for his roles in film and television. He was best known in the horror film community for his role in the 1995 horror movie Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers as John Strode. His first movie role was in the 1971 movie The Anderson Tapes, he also starred in the 1979 movie The Onion Field. English made guest appearances on many television shows. His appearances ranged from Kojak, Diff'rent Strokes, The A-Team, Hunter, Seinfeld, Alien Nation, NYPD Blue, 21 Jump Street, Brooklyn South, and Crossing Jordan and Mad Men.
Filmography
Seinfeld
8.3
Overview:
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.The X-Files
8.4
Overview:
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.Touched by an Angel
7.2
Overview:
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.Frasier
7.674
Overview:
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.The Naked Truth
6.4
Overview:
The Naked Truth is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from 1995 to 1996, and on NBC from 1996 to 1998. The series stars Téa Leoni and co-starred Holland Taylor. The show took place at the office of a tabloid news publication.Mad Men
8.121
Overview:
Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.Cheers
7.567
Overview:
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.Crossing Jordan
7.166
Overview:
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.T. J. Hooker
6.394
Overview:
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.The A-Team
7.466
Overview:
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."Chicago Hope
7.243
Overview:
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.Knots Landing
6.868
Overview:
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.21 Jump Street
7.183
Overview:
21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.Hunter
7.2
Overview:
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.Boston Public
7.6
Overview:
Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the demands of the faculty, the students and their parents.Kojak
6.996
Overview:
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.Brooklyn South
9.7
Overview:
An American ensemble police drama series following the life of police officers from the 74th Precinct in southern Brooklyn, New York City.Ally McBeal
6.6
Overview:
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!Basic Instinct
6.933
Overview:
Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
5.2
Overview:
Six years after being kidnapped by a cult, Jamie tries to escape the clutches of her serial killer uncle, Michael Myers.Wolf
6.1
Overview:
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself full of youthful vigor. As he struggles to regain his position, he becomes enthralled with Laura Alden, his former boss's daughter. And, as increasingly animal-like urges begin to overwhelm him, Randall worries that he may be turning into the creature that bit him.Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
5
Overview:
Fact-based story of the lives and attempted 1946 escape of several inmates in the famous correctional facility. Young inmate Clarence Carnes masterminds a grand escape involving several inmates who have nothing to lose, serving life sentences.Lucky You
5.639
Overview:
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.The Fabulous Baker Boys
6.61
Overview:
The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.Hanky Panky
5.294
Overview:
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.The Anderson Tapes
6.153
Overview:
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
4.5
Overview:
Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "The Rock". Michael Beck plays the real-life Clarence Carnes, an Oklahoma Choctaw Indian said to be the youngest man ever incarcerated in the notorious maximum security prison. Serving a 99-year sentence for a gas station holdup and murder, Carnes makes periodic attempts to escape, the final attempt being the most violent. Many of the subordinate characters are fictional (as are most of the details concerning Carnes' escape efforts); the one exception is Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz", here portrayed by Art Carney as a gentle, kindly philosopher. Telly Savalas, a costar of the Burt Lancaster vehicle Birdman of Alcatraz, also guest starred in the 1980 film. Originally titled Alcatraz and Clarence Carnes, this made-for-TV movie wavers between gritty realism and "I'm bustin' outta here!" artifice.Thick as Thieves
5.9
Overview:
Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides. An angry mob boss and a female police officer try to sort the mess before things get too out of hand.Deal of the Century
4.623
Overview:
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.Acting
2007Mad Men (1 Episode) as Jim Crosby
2007Lucky You as Tommy the Poker Host
2001Crossing Jordan (1 Episode) as Frank Givens
2001Determination of Death as Col. Black
2000Boston Public (1 Episode) as Mr. Hobson
1999Thick as Thieves as Kendall
1997Brooklyn South (5 Episodes) as Lou Zerola
1997Ally McBeal (1 Episode) as Marshall Polk
1995Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers as John Strode
1995The Naked Truth (1 Episode) as Trucker
1994Touched by an Angel (1 Episode) as Felix
1994Chicago Hope (1 Episode) as Unknown
1994Wolf as Keyes
1993Frasier (1 Episode) as Hank
1993The X-Files (1 Episode) as Detective Abbott
1993Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash as Warden Harris
1993Dying to Love You as Detective
1992Basic Instinct as Campus Policeman
1990Last Flight Out as Jerry
1989The Fabulous Baker Boys as Earl
1989Seinfeld (1 Episode) as Cop
1989The Revenge of Al Capone as Warden Johnson
198721 Jump Street (1 Episode) as Officer Charlie Rosemont
1984Hunter (1 Episode) as Singer
1983Deal of the Century as Man from McDonnell Douglas
1983M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers as Officer Sternhagen
1983The A-Team (1 Episode) as Casey
1982Cheers (1 Episode) as Chuck
1982Hanky Panky as Guard #1
1982T. J. Hooker (1 Episode) as Deputy D.A. Paul Clay
1980Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story as Thompkins
1980Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (2 Episodes) as Thompkins
1980Fun and Games as Tex
1980All God's Children as Unknown
1980Mother and Daughter: The Loving War as Don
1979Knots Landing (1 Episode) as Priest
1979The Onion Field as Red Haired Cop
1973Kojak (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Royce, Cop at the Church, Patrolman Seymour
1971The Anderson Tapes as T.V. Watcher