Bruce Belfrage

Bruce Belfrage (born London, England, October 30, 1900, died Sydney, Australia, August 1974) was an English actor and BBC newsreader.

Like his brother, the author and journalist Cedric Belfrage, Bruce Belfrage was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk.

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 Bruce 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.

Filmography

*C.O.D. (1932) - Philip
*"The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1934) - Pitt
*Too Many Millions (1934)
*Full Circle (1935) - Clyde Warren
*War Front (1941) - Newspaper editor
*Hue and Cry (1947) - BBC announcer
*Warning to Wantons (1948) - Archimandrite
*Man on the Run (1948) - BBC Newscaster
*I Killed the Count (1948) - Viscount Sorrington
*Corridor of Mirrors (1948) - Sir David Conway
*Black Magic (1949 film) - Crown Prosecutor
*Ten Little Niggers (1949) - Sir Lawrence Wargrave
*The Case of Charles Peace (1949) - Prosecution Counsel
*Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1950) - Manager
*Mister Drake's Duck (1951) - Air Vice Marshal
*Home to Danger (1951) - Solicitor
*The Galloping Major (1951) - Himself/Radio Commentator
*Never Look Back (1952) - Judge

References

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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1940s.stm Broadcasting House becomes casualty of war]
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=5083 Bruce Belfrage at the New York Times]