Braddock may refer to:

Places

England, United Kingdom

Braddock, Cornwall Braddock ( kw, Brodhek) 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 ...

Battle of Braddock Down The Battle of Braddock Down was a battle of 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 secured ...

, 1643

Canada

Braddock, Saskatchewan Braddock is an unincorporated community in Coulee Rural Municipality No. 136, Saskatchewan, Canada. The community is located on Highway 721, about southeast of Swift Current. See also * List of communities in Saskatchewan Communiti ...

* Braddock Lake, Saskatchewan; a reservoir

United States

* Braddock, New Jersey *

Braddock, North Dakota Braddock is a city in Emmons County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 18 at the 2020 census. Braddock was founded in 1898. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. His ...

Braddock, Pennsylvania Braddock is a borough located in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It is upstream from the mouth of the Monongahela River. The population was 1,721 as of the 2020 census. The borough is represented by the ...

* Braddock, Virginia * Braddock Bay in Lake Ontario, northwest of Rochester, New York * Braddock Heights, Maryland, a census-designated place *

Braddock Hills, Pennsylvania Braddock Hills is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. Braddock Hills is located approximately east of downtown Pittsburgh. The population of Braddock Hills was 1,730 at the 20 ...

, 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 ...

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

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Hilton Head Island, sometimes referred to as simply Hilton Head, is a Lowcountry resort town and barrier island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. It is northeast of Savannah, Georgia, and southwest of Charleston. The island is ...

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. Here, in 1755, wa ...

(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 ...

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; the other two are Hayfield SS and Robinson SS. Lake Bra ...

, Burke, Virginia * WMHS Braddock Campus (Cumberland, Maryland), 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 Dinah ...

, NYC, NY, USA

People

Braddock (surname) Braddock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Braddock, Australian politician, Greens * Bessie Braddock Elizabeth Margaret Braddock (née Bamber; 24 September 1899 – 13 November 1970) was a Britis ...

Middlename 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 j ...

, 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 enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed because of fatigue, ineffectiveness, injury, or ejection, or for other strategic reasons, such as inclement weat ...

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (A ...

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

Micky Dolenz George Michael Dolenz Jr. (born March 8, 1945) is an American actor, musician, TV producer and businessman. He is best known as the drummer and one of three primary vocalists for the pop- rock band the Monkees (1966–1970, and multiple reunion ...

, early career name of Mickey Braddock, actor from

Circus Boy ''Circus Boy'' was an American adventure family western 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 title of the ser ...

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 McCutc ...

, a 1914 silent film produced by

Jesse Lasky Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer 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 Born in to ...

and distributed by

Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...

. **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 disapp ...

**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 whil ...

*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 20, 1904 – July 21, 1973) was an American film actor. He appeared in '' The Costello Case'', ''Broadway to Hollywood'', '' Stage Mother'', '' Christopher Bean'', '' As the Earth Turns'', '' Men in White'', ''Oper ...

in the Killer at Large (1936 film) *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 over five decades, she was nominated ...

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, to Bert Herring, an oil well driller, and his wife Minnie. Hadley had one ...

in Racket Squad 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 chartactor in

The Rover (story paper) ''The Rover'' was a British boys' story paper which started in 1922. It absorbed ''Adventure'' becoming ''Rover And Adventure'' in 1961 and ''The Wizard Wizard, the wizard, or wizards may refer to: * Wizard (fantasy), a fictional practitioner o ...

1952 *Benjamin Braddock, name of Dustin Hoffman's character in the 1967 movie "

The Graduate ''The Graduate'' is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from W ...

" 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. Robi ...

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 gr ...

*Charlie Braddock, Played by

David Hemmings David Edward Leslie Hemmings (18 November 1941 – 3 December 2003) was an English actor and director. He is best remembered for his roles in British films and television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly the 1966 mystery film ...

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). A ...

in the 1983

Blue Thunder ''Blue Thunder'' is a 1983 American action thriller film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Gordon Carroll, Phil Feldman, and Andrew Fogelson and directed by John Badham. The Blue Thunder helicopter itself did exist as two copies of modifie ...

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. He is a black belt in Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu jitsu and judo. After serving in the United States Air Force, Norris won many martial arts championshi ...

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. Super-teams such as the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Guardians of ...

** 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 Weekly'' #1 by writer Ch ...

. 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 fictional 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 varie ...

, fictional character in Marvel Comics 1976 ** William "Billy" Braddock, Spider-UK 2014

2000-present

*Annie Braddock, played by

Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (; born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. The world's highest-paid actress in 2018 and 2019, she has featured multiple times on the ''Forbes'' Celebrity 100 list. ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 ...

in The Nanny Diaries (film) 2007 *Craig Braddock, Played by

Mark Camacho Mark Camacho (born April 12, 1964) is a Canadian film, television and voice 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 i ...

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 view ...

*Allen Braddock, Played by

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

in the

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

(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 of the French and Indian War, ending in

Edward Braddock Major-General 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 Europ ...

's Defeat *

, 1643 England *

Braddock Dunn & McDonald Braddock, Dunn & McDonald, later known as BDM, then BDM International, was a technical services firm founded in 1959 in New York City. Its founders were Dr. Joseph V. Braddock, Dr. Bernard J. Dunn, and Dr. Daniel F. McDonald, who each received a P ...

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