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Reed, Walter

Born February 10, 1916;

Fort Ward, Washington, USA

Died August 20, 2001;
Santa Cruz, California, USA

Maverick Actor

Walter Reed Smith was born to a military family on Bainbridge Island, and grew up in Honolulu and Los Angeles. He went to school with the clidren of movie stars, and when out of scholl himself, tried his hand on the stage. He appeared in a number of RKO radio Pictures features in the 1940s and fell into two Republic Pictures serials in 1951. Republic offered to sign him, be Reed didn't want to become known as a serial star. in the late 1960s, he left show business to become a real estate inverstor in Santa Cruz, California, where he enjoyed local fame as a minor Hollywood celebrity.[1]