Bruce Belfrage

Biography

Bruce Belfrage was a talented English actor and BBC radio newsreader born in Marylebone, London, on October 30, 1900. He began his career as a casting director at the BBC from 1936 to 1939, before founding the BBC Repertory Company in 1939. A notable moment in his career came when he survived a bombing of BBC's Broadcasting House during the 1940 radio news broadcast, resulting in seven fatalities.