David Bradley

David Bradley

Born to a miner father and a seamstress mother in Barnsley, South Yorkshire in 1953, David Bradley is best known for playing Billy Casper in Ken Loach's 1969 film, Kes. Prior to this starring role, Bradley had only ever acted in school pantomimes and secured the lead in an open audition against thousands of children. Following the success of Kes, Bradley had to change his name to Dai Bradley on account of the actor David Bradley already having an Equity card in that name. Bradley turned to television appearing as the lead in two children's series The Flaxton Boys and The Jensen Code and guest roles in Z Cars, Nearest and Dearest and A Family at War. He appeared in several other movies as a young man in the tail end of the 70s including All Quiet on the Western Front, Zulu Dawn and Absolution but by the following decade Bradley decided to retire from acting and tried his hand as a writer instead. In recent years he has returned to the profession as David Bradley once more and has had roles in the film Hummingbird and the children's TV series The Dumping Ground.

  • Title: David Bradley
  • Popularity: 6.926
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1953-09-27
  • Place of Birth: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK
  • Homepage: http://www.kes-billycasper.co.uk/
  • Also Known As: Dai Bradley
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David Bradley Movies

  • 1983
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    The Battle of Waterloo

    The Battle of Waterloo

    1 1983 HD

    For the infantrymen, old hands and raw recruits, 36 hours of forced march and a night in pouring rain are followed by a day in a muddy cornfield,...

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  • 1970
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    Kes

    Kes

    7.5 1970 HD

    Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire...

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  • 1979
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    Zulu Dawn

    Zulu Dawn

    6 1979 HD

    In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

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  • 2016
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    Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

    Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

    6.6 2016 HD

    A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as...

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  • 1979
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    6.6 1979 HD

    At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends...

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  • 1982
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    The World Cup: A Captain's Tale

    The World Cup: A Captain's Tale

    7 1982 HD

    The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.

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  • 1978
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    Absolution

    Absolution

    6.355 1978 HD

    At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges...

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  • 2013
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    Hummingbird

    Hummingbird

    6.157 2013 HD

    Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an...

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  • 2018
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    Macbeth

    Macbeth

    7.8 2018 HD

    Entirely shot on green screen, Shakespeare’s Macbeth has been reinvented by director Kit Monkman (The Knife That Killed Me) in an exciting new...

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  • 1983
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    Those Glory Glory Days

    Those Glory Glory Days

    4.6 1983 HD

    Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the...

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  • 2003
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    Asylum

    Asylum

    6 2003 HD

    Fleeing persecution and torture in northern Iraq, three young Kurds, Mahmoud, Rezghar and Saman, smuggle themselves into Britain aboard a freight...

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  • 2019
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    Greg Davies: Looking for Kes

    Greg Davies: Looking for Kes

    7 2019 HD

    Comedian, actor and ex-English teacher Greg Davies is a lifelong fan of Barry Hines's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave, the story of Billy Casper...

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  • 1973
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    Malachi's Cove

    Malachi's Cove

    6.1 1973 HD

    A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell...

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  • 2010
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    Making Kes

    Making Kes

    1 2010 HD

    A documentary on the making of Kes, produced by the Criterion Collection.

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  • 1974
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    Bedtime Stories

    Bedtime Stories

    1 1974 HD

    Modern-day interpretation of fairy tales, with a contemporary, darker twist.

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  • 1969
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    The Flaxton Boys

    The Flaxton Boys

    5 1969 HD

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1973
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    The Jensen Code

    The Jensen Code

    5.5 1973 HD

    Sixteen-year-old Terry Connor is sent, along with a few of his friends, to an Outward Bound centre. On his first day at the centre Terry is taken...

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