Braddock may refer to:

Places

England, United Kingdom

Braddock, Cornwall Braddock () is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about seven miles west of Liskeard, and five miles south-east of Bodmin. The parish was called Broadoak until 1 April 2021 ...

Battle of Braddock Down The Battle of Braddock Down took place during the south-western campaign of the First English Civil War. It was fought on open ground in Cornwall, on 19 January 1643. An apparently easy victory for the Royalists under Sir Ralph Hopton secur ...

, 1643

Canada

Braddock, Saskatchewan Braddock is an unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Coulee No. 136, Saskatchewan, Canada. The community is at the western end of Braddock Reservoir on Highway 721. It is about south-east of the city of Swift Current. Se ...

* Braddock Lake, Saskatchewan; a reservoir

United States

* Braddock, New Jersey * Braddock, North Dakota *

Braddock, Pennsylvania Braddock is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough located in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, upstream from the mouth of the Monongahela River. The population was 1,721 as of the 2020 United States ...

* Braddock, Virginia *

Braddock Bay Braddock Bay, sometimes improperly referred to as Braddock's Bay, is a small bay of Lake Ontario located in Monroe County northwest of Rochester, New York in the United States. Braddock Bay is renowned for being an excellent bird-watching loc ...

in Lake Ontario, northwest of Rochester, New York *

Braddock Heights, Maryland Braddock Heights is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,608 at the 2010 census. The local ZIP codes are 21714 (post office boxes only) and 21703. H ...

, a census-designated place *

Braddock Hills, Pennsylvania Braddock Hills is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,730 at the 2020 census. Braddock Hills is located approximately east of downtown Pittsburgh and is a residential suburb of the Pittsburgh metrop ...

, a borough * Braddock Mountain, local name for

Catoctin Mountain Catoctin Mountain, along with the geologically associated Bull Run Mountains, forms the easternmost mountain ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are in turn a part of the Appalachian Mountains range. The ridge runs northeast–southwest for ...

near Frederick, Maryland * Braddock Peak, Jackson County, Colorado *

Lake Braddock Lake Braddock is a reservoir in the community of Burke in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Lake Braddock is created by an impoundment on a tributary stream of Pohick Creek, itself a tributary of the Potomac River. In 1969, the Fairfax Co ...

, Burke, Fairfax County, Virginia, a reservoir * Braddock Point and Braddock Cove on the southern tip of

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Hilton Head Island, often referred to as simply Hilton Head, is a South Carolina Lowcountry, Lowcountry resort town and barrier island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. It is northeast of Savannah, Georgia (as the crow flies), a ...

Braddock's Field Braddock's Field is a historic battlefield on the banks of the Monongahela River, at Braddock, Pennsylvania, near the junction of Turtle Creek, about nine miles southeast of the "Forks of the Ohio" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1755, the Bat ...

(battlefield) Braddock, Pennsylvania * Mount Braddock, Pennsylvania

Facilities

Braddock Point Light Braddock Point Light was a lighthouse just west of Braddock Bay at Bogus Point on Lake Ontario in New York. History The lighthouse was established and lit in 1896 and was deactivated in 1954. The lighthouse was constructed out of red brick, with ...

, a lighthouse west of Braddock Bay in New York *

Braddock Locks & Dam Braddock Locks & Dam (previously named Monongahela Locks and Dam No. 2) is one of nine navigational structures on the Monongahela River between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Fairmont, West Virginia. Built and maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of ...

on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania * G. Holmes Braddock High School, Miami, Florida *

Lake Braddock Secondary School Lake Braddock Secondary School (LBSS) in Burke, Virginia, United States, administered by Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), is one of three 7-12 secondary schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, Fairfax County. The other two are Hayfield Seco ...

, Burke, Virginia *

WMHS Braddock Campus (Cumberland, Maryland) Western Maryland Health System Braddock Campus was a hospital that served the Greater Cumberland, Maryland region in the United States. History First incorporated as Allegany Hospital in 1905, the Daughters of Charity were asked to come to Cumb ...

, also known as Braddock Hospital *

UPMC Braddock UPMC Braddock Hospital, formerly located at 400 Holland Avenue, Braddock, Pennsylvania, United States, was a full-service hospital that had served over 25 Monongahela Valley communities as a primary care facility for the Steel Valley and areas pa ...

(Braddock, Pennsylvania), a hospital *

Braddock Hotel Braddock Hotel was a hotel at the corner of 126th Street and 8th Avenue in New York City, near the Apollo Theater. The hotel bar was popular with black jazz musicians, and Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Dina ...

, NYC, NY, USA

People

Braddock (surname) Braddock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Braddock, Australian politician, Greens * Bessie Braddock, British politician * Bobby Braddock, American country music songwriter * Christine Braddock, a British further ed ...

Middle name or nickname

Lemuel Braddock Schofield Lemuel Braddock Schofield was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, in 1892. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, graduated from its law school in 1916, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar that year. Schofield ...

, Attorney at law * Rosemarie Braddock DeWitt, an American actress * W. Braddock Hickman, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland from 1963 to 1970 * John Braddock Clontz, is a former

relief pitcher In baseball and softball, a relief pitcher or reliever is a pitcher who pitches in the game after the starting pitcher or another relief pitcher has been removed from the game due to fatigue (medical), fatigue, injury, ineffectiveness, ejection ...

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

from –. * Anderson "Braddock" Silva, Brazilian heavyweight kickboxer *

Micky Dolenz George Michael Dolenz Jr. ( ; born March 8, 1945) is an American musician and actor. He was the drummer and one of two primary vocalists for the pop rock band the Monkees (1966–1970, and reunions until 2021), and a co-star of the TV series ''T ...

, early career name of Mickey Braddock, actor from

Circus Boy ''Circus Boy'' is an American western adventure family television series that aired in prime time on NBC, and then on ABC, from 1956 to 1957. It was then rerun by NBC on Saturday mornings, from 1958 to 1960. Summary Set in the late 1890s, the ...

series 1956-1964

In fiction

1900-1950

The Circus Man ''The Circus Man'' is a 1914 silent film produced by Jesse Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Oscar Apfel and written by Cecil B. DeMille from a story based on the novel ''The Rose in the Ring'' by George Barr McCut ...

, a 1914 silent film produced by

Jesse Lasky Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer Film producer, motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Early life ...

and distributed by

Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the flagship namesake subsidiary of Paramount ...

. **Thomas Braddock, played by

Theodore Roberts Theodore Roberts (October 8, 1861 – December 14, 1928) was an American film and stage actor. Early life Roberts was born in San Francisco, California. He was a cousin of the stage actress Florence Roberts. His choice of a career disap ...

**Mary Braddock, played by

Mabel Van Buren Mabel Van Buren (born Mabel Brown Southard; July 17, 1878 – November 4, 1947) was an American stage and screen actress. Biography As a theatrical performer she played the leading lady in both ''The Virginian'' and ''The Squaw Man'' (190 ...

**Christine Braddock, played by

Florence Dagmar Florence Dagmar Oberg (October 22, 1895 – May 7, 1986) was an American silent film actress. She had several leading roles and worked for the Famous Players–Lasky film company, appearing at least twice with Thomas Meighan and Victor Moore wh ...

*Marion Braddock, played by

Toby Wing Toby Wing (born Martha Virginia Wing; July 14, 1915 – March 22, 2001), "Toby" being an old family nickname, was an American actress and showgirl, once called "the most beautiful chorus girl in Hollywood". Early years Wing was born in Am ...

in the Silks and Saddles (1936 film) *Tommy Braddock, played by

Russell Hardie William Russell Hardie (May 21, 1904 – July 21, 1973) was an American film actor. Hardie was the son of William and Katherine Hardie. He appeared in '' The Costello Case'', '' Broadway to Hollywood'', ''Stage Mother'', '' Christopher Bean' ...

in the

Killer at Large (1936 film) ''Killer at Large'' is a 1936 American mystery film directed by David Selman from a script by Harold Shumate. The film stars Mary Brian, Russell Hardie, Thurston Hall and Henry Brandon as the villain, Mr. Zero. Lon Chaney Jr. appears in a smal ...

*Celia Braddock, played by

Jennifer Jones Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley; March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental-health advocate. Over the course of her career that spanned more than five decades, she was nomin ...

in the

New Frontier (film) ''New Frontier'' (also known as Frontier Horizon) is a 1939 American Western film starring John Wayne, Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, and Jennifer Jones. This was the last of eight Three Mesquiteers Western B-movies with Wayne (there ...

1939

1950-2000

*Capt. John Braddock, played by

Reed Hadley Reed Hadley (born Reed Herring, June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974) was an American film, television and radio actor. Early life Hadley was born in Petrolia, Texas. Career Before moving to Hollywood, he acted in ''Hamlet'' on stage in N ...

Racket Squad ''Racket Squad'' is an American TV crime drama series that aired from 1951 to 1953. The format was a narrated anthology drama, as each individual episode featured various ordinary citizens getting ensnared in a different confidence scheme. Ep ...

1951 *

Matt Braddock Matt Braddock, VC and bar, is a fictional World War II bomber pilot who first appeared in prose adventures in the story paper '' The Rover'' in 1952, and later as a comic strip in '' The Victor'' (1961–83) and ''Warlord'' (1974).Denis Gifford, ...

, fictional character in

The Rover (story paper) ''The Rover'' was a British boys' story paper which started in 1922. It absorbed ''Adventure An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as travel ...

1952, and in various other comics published by D C Thomson *Benjamin Braddock, name of Dustin Hoffman's character in the 1967 movie "

The Graduate ''The Graduate'' is a 1967 American independent romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novella by Charles Webb. It stars Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddoc ...

" directed by Mike Nichols, based on the 1963 novel

The Graduate (novel) ''The Graduate'' is a 1963 novella by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. It tells the story of Benjamin Braddock, who, while pondering his future after his graduation, has an affair with the older Mrs. Rob ...

Charles Webb (author) Charles Richard Webb (June 9, 1939 – June 16, 2020) was an American novelist. His most famous work is the 1963 novel ''The Graduate'', which was made into a 1967 film of the same name. Life and career Webb was born in San Francisco and grew u ...

*Charlie Braddock, Played by

David Hemmings David Leslie Edward Hemmings (18 November 1941 – 3 December 2003) was an English actor, director, and producer of film and television. Originally trained as a boy soprano in operatic roles, he began appearing in films as a child actor in the ...

in the

Juggernaut (1974 film) ''Juggernaut'' is a 1974 British crime suspense film starring Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, and Anthony Hopkins. The film, which was directed by Richard Lester, was largely shot on location aboard the TS ''Hamburg'' in the North Sea. It was i ...

*Capt. Jack Braddock, the main character played by

Warren Oates Warren Mercer Oates (July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982) was an American actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Peckinpah, including '' The Wild Bunch'' (1969) and ''Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia'' (1974). ...

in the 1983

Blue Thunder ''Blue Thunder'' is a 1983 American action thriller film directed by John Badham. The Blue Thunder helicopter itself did exist as two copies of modified French Aérospatiale Gazelles. A spin-off television series, also called '' Blue Thun ...

film. *Colonel James Braddock, main character played by

Chuck Norris Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist and actor. Born in Oklahoma, Norris first gained fame when he won the amateur Middleweight Karate champion title in 1968, which he held for six consecutive years. H ...

on the 1980s "Missing in Action" film trilogy: '' ''Missing in Action'''', '' Missing in Action 2: The Beginning'', and '' Braddock: Missing in Action III'' *

Marvel Comics Universe The Marvel Universe is a fictional shared universe where the stories in most American comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Comics take place. Superhero teams such as the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Guardian ...

** Brian Braddock, formerly known as

Captain Britain Captain Britain is a title used by various superheroes in comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with Excalibur. The moniker was first used in publication by Brian Braddock in ''Captain Britain'' #1 by writer Chris Cl ...

. 1976 ** Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock formerly known as Psylocke and currently known as Captain Britain, Brian's twin sister. 1976 **

Jamie Braddock James Braddock Jr. is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The elder brother of the twin superheroes Brian and Betsy Braddock, he is a mutant possessing the ability to manipulate reality in a variety of ways. ...

, fictional character in Marvel Comics 1976 ** William "Billy" Braddock,

Spider-UK Spider-UK of the Captain Britain Corps, or simply Spider-UK, is the name of several British alternate-reality superheroes appearing in American comic books published in Marvel Comics. The first Spider-UK, Billy Braddock, a Spider-Man endling of ...

2014

2000-present

*Annie Braddock, played by

Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (; born November 22, 1984) is an American actress and singer. The List of highest-paid film actors, world's highest-paid actress in 2018 and 2019, she has been featured multiple times on the Forbes Celebrity 100, ''F ...

The Nanny Diaries (film) ''The Nanny Diaries'' is a 2007 American comedy drama film written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, based on the 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Laura Linney ...

2007 *Craig Braddock, Played by

Mark Camacho Mark Camacho is a Canadian character actor. Career He has starred in live-action films, but is best known for his voice acting roles, such as Oliver Frensky in ''Arthur'', Lyle in '' Animal Crackers'', Dad in '' Rotten Ralph'', George Martin in ...

in the film

Infected (2008 film) ''Infected'' is a 2008 Canadian made-for-television Action adventure science-fiction horror-thriller film, which was directed by Adam Weissman. The movie has been given extremely negative reviews by critics and criticized by local television viewe ...

*Allen Braddock, Played by

Kelsey Grammer Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955) is an American actor and producer. He gained fame for his role as the psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom ''Cheers'' (1984–1993) and its spin-off ''Frasier'' (1993–2004, and again F ...

in the

Partners (2014 TV series) ''Partners'' is an American sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence that aired on FX (TV channel), FX. The show centers on two Chicago lawyers from vastly different backgrounds who develop a partnership after they unexpectedly meet in c ...

(10 episodes)

Other uses

*''Braddock'' (1968 film), a TV movie about a futuristic private eye Braddock played by Tom Simcox aired as part of the ''Premiere'' (TV series) *

Braddock Expedition The Braddock Expedition, also known as Braddock's Campaign or Braddock's Defeat, was a British Empire, British military expedition which attempted to capture Fort Duquesne from the French colonial empire, French in 1755 during the French and Ind ...

of the French and Indian War, ending in

Edward Braddock Edward Braddock (January 1695 – 13 July 1755) was a British officer and commander-in-chief for the Thirteen Colonies during the start of the French and Indian War (1754–1763), the North American front of what is known in Europe and Canada as ...

's Defeat *

, 1643 England * Braddock Dunn & McDonald, technical services firm *'' Braddock: Missing in Action III'' (1988 film) Chuck Norris film * Operation Braddock, a secret service measure during World War II

Places

England, United Kingdom

Canada

United States

Facilities

People

Middle name or nickname

In fiction

1900-1950

1950-2000

2000-present

Other uses

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