Buried at Forest Lawn Glendale, 1712 So. Glendale Avenue, Glendale, California, Los Angeles County.
He retired from acting in 1960, after ending his run as the star of the TV series "U.S. Marshal" (1958), to become a commercial fisherman.
When "Sheriff of Cochise" (1956) first aired in 1956 the real sheriff of Cochise County, AZ, visited the set and made Bromfield an honorary deputy.