Bradford Dillman was an American stage screen and television actor as well as an author starred in the taut crime drama Compulsion 1959 The lanky darkhaired Dillman also played Robert Redfords best friend JJ in The Way We Were 1973 Dillman also appeared opposite Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry films The Enforcer 1976 and Sudden Impact 1983 In director Richard Fleischers Compulsion derived from the infamous Leopold Loeb case of the 1920s Dillman and Stockwell starred as the brazen killers Arthur A Straus and Judd Steiner respectively who think they have committed the perfect murder Dillman Stockwell and Orson Welles who played their attorney shared best actor honors at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival The Fox film was an adaptation of a Broadway hit with Dillman taking on the role that Roddy McDowall had originated on the stage