David Bradley; Movie Director, Film Teacher

David Bradley, 77, a movie director perhaps best known for having discovered the acting talents of Charlton Heston. He signed Heston, then a student at New Trier High School in Illinois, to play a role in the Ibsen play “Peer Gynt,” and later appeared as an actor beside him in a 1950 film version of “Julius Caesar.” Bradley also directed the MGM films “Talk About a Stranger” and “Go for Broke,” and later taught film history at UCLA and Santa Monica City College. On Saturday in Los Angeles of the complications of diabetes.