A former child prodigy known as "The World's Youngest Magician," Brad Jackson (born Herman Budlow) came to the screen right out of the service and was awarded a contract with the new Universal-International in 1953. Playing a variety of "nice young men," Jackson is perhaps best remembered as George Eldredge's assistant in the 1953 science fiction thriller It Came From Outer Space and, five years later, as Abby Dalton's love interest in Roger Corman's near-classic The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1958).