Acting Career
Beradino appeared briefly in an uncredited role as a state trooper in the 1954 thriller Suddenly, starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden, and later performed as a policeman who allows Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) to make a phone call to his mother in the 1959 Hitchcock thriller, North by Northwest.
Beradino had a cameo role in the classic 1954 sci-fi thriller Them, and a guest role in a 1955 episode of the TV series Adventures of Superman, in the episode titled "The Unlucky Number". He played a small-time criminal who struggled with his lifestyle and wanted to reform. His low-key acting style served him well in that show.
After appearing in more than a dozen B-movies, as well as supporting roles, as FBI agent Steve Daniels in the espionage series I Led Three Lives and as LAPD Sergeant Vince Cavelli in The New Breed, he was offered the role of Dr. Steve Hardy on the soap opera General Hospital. He also played a version of his General Hospital character Dr. Steve Hardy on an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. He played Steve Hardy from GH's inception in 1963 until becoming ill from pancreatic cancer in 1996. Beradino passed away on Sunday, May 19,1996 in Los Angeles, California.
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