1. Bruce Belfrage was an English actor and BBC radio newsreader.
11 Facts About Bruce Belfrage
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Bruce Belfrage was casting director at the BBC between 1936 and 1939, and founded the BBC Repertory Company in 1939.
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Bruce Belfrage was born in Marylebone, London, the son of Sydney Henning Belfrage and Frances Grace.
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Bruce Belfrage was educated at Gresham's School before taking an honours degree in modern languages at St John's College, Oxford.
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Bruce Belfrage 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.
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Seven people were killed, and Bruce Belfrage, covered with plaster and soot, carried on reading the news as if nothing had happened.
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Bruce Belfrage enlisted in the Royal Naval Reserve in 1942, and was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant-commander.
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Bruce Belfrage was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate for the South Buckinghamshire division at the 1950 general election.
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In September 1958, for health reasons, Bruce Belfrage migrated to Australia with his second wife Joyce, a TV producer.
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Joyce Bruce Belfrage quit the ABC in 1962 to work in the advertising industry and initiate a programme of media studies at Macquarie University.
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Bruce Belfrage was married to the actress Joan Henley, with whom he had a son, Julian Rochfort Belfrage.