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.
Acting
Movie
Hummingbird
as Billy
2013
Movie
Kes
as Billy
1970
Movie
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Albert Kropp
1979
Movie
Zulu Dawn
as Pte Williams
1979
Movie
Absolution
as Arthur Dyson
1978
Movie
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
as Self / Billy
2016
Movie
Those Glory Glory Days
as 1961 Spurs Team Member
1983
Movie
Malachi's Cove
as Barty
1973
TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Kropp
1951
Movie
Macbeth
as Porter
2018
TV
The Jensen Code
as Terry
1973
TV
The Flaxton Boys
as Peter Weekes
1969
Movie
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
as Ticer Thomas
1982
Movie
Asylum
as Father Michael
2003
Movie
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
as Self
2019
Movie
The Battle of Waterloo
as Ferris
1983
Movie
Making Kes
as Self
2010
Movie
That Quiet Earth
as The Evangelist
1972
TV
Bedtime Stories
as Lennie Burr
1974