Bernard Chastey Braden was a Canadian-born British actor and comedian, who is best known for his appearances in UK television and radio shows.
13 Facts About Bernard Braden
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Bernard Braden produced plays on CJOR Vancouver in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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Bernard Braden married Barbara Kelly in 1942, and they moved to Toronto the same year.
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Bernard Braden was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1991, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel outside the Aldwych Theatre.
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Bernard Braden died in Camden, London, aged 76, following a series of strokes.
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In Breakfast with Bernard Braden he played American serviceman "Brandon Marlow".
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In 1960, Bernard Braden interviewed Orson Welles in Allen King's documentary, "Orson Welles: The Paris Interview," produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Bernard Braden presented On the Bernard Braden Beat, a popular consumer affairs programme made for ITV by Associated Television, which ran from 1962 to 1967.
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In 1974, Bernard Braden hosted a short-lived Canadian edition of The Bernard Braden Beat for Canada's fledgling Global Television Network.
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Bernard Braden hosted a quiz show for London Weekend Television in 1976, The Sweepstakes Game.
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Bernard Braden later presented episodes of the show All Our Yesterdays.
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Bernard Braden narrated the 20-minute British Transport Films short The Coasts of Clyde, in which he announces himself as a Canadian traveller arriving in Scotland in pursuit of an ancestor in the land of his parents.
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Bernard Braden published an autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers; the title is an allusion to A Streetcar Named Desire.