Bruce Belfrage
Bruce Belfrage (30 October 1900 – August 1974) was an English actor, BBC newsreader and British Liberal Party politician.
Background
He was born in Marylebone, London. His younger brother was the author and journalist Cedric Belfrage. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk before he took an honours degree at Oxford in modern languages.
Professional career
Belfrage started his career as an actor, appearing in his first film in 1932. He was a broadcaster in the early days of 2LO at Savoy Hill, and in 1935 joined the BBC as a casting director and later became a news reader and announcer. In a famous incident on 15 October 1940, the BBC's Broadcasting House took a direct hit from a delayed-action German bomb, which eventually exploded during the nine o'clock radio news read by Belfrage. Seven people were killed, and Belfrage, covered with plaster and soot, carried on reading the news as if nothing had happened. Listeners at home heard just a dull thud. He enlisted in the Royal Naval Reserve in 1942, and was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant-commander.
'Bruce Belfrage' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
All Men's Dead (2012)
Actors: Andrew Havill (actor), Dudley Hinton (actor), Luke Newberry (actor), Miles Richardson (actor), Bill Thomas (actor), Richard Ward (actor), Amelda Brown (actress), Hannah Emanuel (actress), Victoria Ross (actress), Sarah Senior (producer), Krysty Wilson-Cairns (writer), Jered Sorkin (composer), David Simpson (director), Chloë Lambourne (editor), Charlotte Burke (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: "As the German blitz raids reach their 39th day further air raids are to be expected at anytime..." At BBC broadcasting House, Bruce Belfrage and the rest of the staff are preparing the nightly news for millions of anxious listeners, but when the building suffers a direct hit they must pull together to face a terrible choice. Inspired by a true story.
Genres: Drama, Short, War,Belfrage, Bruce Filmography
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1952, role: actor , character name: The Judge
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1951, role: actor , character name: Bruce - Solicitor
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1951, role: actor , character name: Guest Artiste
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1951, role: actor , character name: Air Vice Marshal
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1950, role: actor , character name: Manager
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1949, role: actor , character name: Crown Prosecutor
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1949, role: actor , character name: BBC Newscaster
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1949, role: actor , character name: Sir Lawrence Wargrave
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1949, role: actor , character name: Prosecution counsel Foster
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1949, role: actor , character name: Archimandrite
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1948, role: actor , character name: Sir David Conway
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1948, role: actor , character name: Viscount Sorrington
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1947, role: actor , character name: Himself - Commentator
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1947, role: actor , character name: Himself - Narrator
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1947, role: actor , character name: Capulet
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1947, role: actor , character name: B.B.C. Announcer
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1947, role: actor , character name: Commentator
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1946, role: actor
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1945, role: actor , character name: Narrator: English language version
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1942, role: actor , character name: Commentator
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1941, role: actor , character name: Narrator
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1941, role: actor , character name: Newspaper editor
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1935, role: actor , character name: Clyde Warren
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1934, role: actor
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1934, role: actor , character name: Pitt
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1932, role: actor , character name: Philip
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1931, role: actor
