Lane bradford biography

“My brother, Lane (Bradford), had a lot of good qualities and I believe he was a far better, harder working and more thoughtful actor than my father (John Merton) was,” Bob LaVarre told Tom and Jim Goldrup for their FEATURE PLAYERS Vol.

When Lane first came on the set of a new show, those who didn’t know him were often “scared to death of him because he had that countenance, he had that mug on him, his broken nose and hawk-jaw, but he was just a teddy bear and loved everyone and wouldn’t hurt anyone or anything.”

One of the prominent western badmen of the late ‘40s and early ‘50s, Lane Bradford was born Myrtland LaVarre Jr.

(son of John Merton—Myrtland V. LaVarre—1901-1959) on August 29, 1922, in New York City. At that time his father was a stage actor based in New York before coming west in ‘32.

Bob LaVarre, Lane’s younger brother and a sometime actor (“Sky King”, “