Ed Bradley

Age: 65 (passed away Nov. 9th, 2006)
Height: 6'

Birth Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Born: Jun. 22nd, 1941

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Ed Bradley's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
60 Minutes	Ed Bradley …
Street Stories	Himself - H…
TV Land Legends: The 60 Minutes Interviews	Host

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

A graduate of Thomas More Roman Catholic High School in Philadelphia and Cheyney State Teachers College (now Cheyney University), Ed Bradley was teaching sixth grade in the Philadelphia public school system when he accepted a dare to report the news on a local radio station; he fell in love with it and continued doing the news for free until his coverage of a local race riot brought him to the attention of the local major news outlet, and from then on his career was launched. A stalwart of the CBS news program "60 Minutes" (1968) for more than a quarter-century, Bradley was best known for his thoughtful and perceptive news reporting and interviewing. He died on November 9, 2006, in New York City of leukemia.

TRIVIA:

The Denver Press Club awarded him its 2003 'Damon Runyon' (qv) Award for career journalistic excellence.
Ed Bradley's face replaced Mike Wallace as the first face in the 60 Minutes introduction during Bradley's last season. Wallace was the first face on the introduction of 60 Minutes since the beginning of the show. After Bradley's passing, Steve Kroft became the first face.
Philadephia radio personality Georgie Woods once played a joke on him by setting the AP news wire ticker tape on fire while he was reading it. Bradley did not panic, he just kept reading the news faster until he finished the update.
Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
He was wounded in Cambodia in 1973.
Graduate of Cheney State College.
Was chief correspondent for "CBS Reports" from 1978 to 1981. His status there was such that the title was changed temporarily to "CBS Reports with Ed Bradley".
Received the 'Robert F. Kennedy' (qv) Journalism Awards grand prize and television first prize for "CBS Reports: In the Killing Fields of America" (January 1995), a documentary about violence in America, for which he was co-anchor and reporter.

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