Harold Bradley, Jr.
Harold Willard Bradley ( born October 13, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American actor, football player and folk musicians.
Life
Bradley holds a bachelor's degree of Fine Arts from successful and played from 1954 to 1956 for three seasons football for the Cleveland Browns and in 1958 for the Philadelphia Eagles. In January 1959 he went to Italy to study at the University for Foreigners Perugia art; he knew the country of his residence in his military time ago. He earned money as a folk singer in the bars of the city.
In 1960 he moved to Rome and, together with the Canadian sculptor Bob Cowgill a studio in Trastevere. It became a popular meeting place for folk musicians and their listeners; the Group Folk Singers Studio was founded. In the same year he made his debut as an actor and played numerous roles until 1967, in which the large, bulky Bradley impressive supporting cast - because of his black skin usually as a slave, friend of the hero or servant - played in adventure films.
In 1968 he returned to Illinois, where he worked for the next nineteen years as curator of the " Illinois Arts Council "; next he taught and worked for television in various formats. Then, in 1987, he moved again to Rome, where he has played as a singer of Jona 's Blues Band about 120 concerts a year. He then founded several Spiritual singing groups with which he is still active today, and came back occasionally in films.