Frank Birch
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Francis Lyall Birch | |
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Born | (1889-12-05)5 December 1889 London, England |
Died | 14 February 1956(1956-02-14) (aged 66) London, England |
Other names | Frank Birch |
Occupation | Cryptographer and actor |
Spouse(s) | Vera Benedicta Gage Birch |
Francis Lyall "Frank" Birch, CMG, OBE (5 December 1889 – 14 February 1956) was a British cryptographer and actor.[1] He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.
During World War I, he served as a lieutenant commander with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and served in the Atlantic, the Channel and the Dardanelles before joining the Naval Intelligence Division (Room 40) from 1916 to 1919. Birch wrote a satirical history of Room 40, Alice in ID25. Birch was appointed an OBE in 1919.
He was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, between 1915 and 1934 and a lecturer in history at Cambridge from 1921 until 1928.
Birch left Cambridge to pursue an acting career in the 1930s, including the role of Widow Twankey in pantomime.[2]
In 1939 he was part of a BBC television production in a Teresa Deevy play "In Search of Valour"[3] where he played the part of Mr. Glitteron,
He joined the Naval section at Bletchley Park in September 1939, and later became Head of the (German) Naval Section. He had to face the shortage of Bombes to decipher the Naval Enigma, which led to the use of American Bombes via OP-20-G. Birch was awarded a CMG in 1945.
Contents
1 Selected filmography
2 Television
3 References
4 External links
Selected filmography
School for Stars (1935) - Robert Blake
Jubilee Window (1935) - Ambrose Holroyd
Cross Currents (1935) - Rev. Eustace Hickling
Wolf's Clothing (1936) - Reverend John Laming
Love at Sea (1936) - Mr. Godwin
Such Is Life (1936) - Mockett
Jump for Glory (1937) - Vicar
Double Exposures (1937) - Kempton
Twin Faces (1937) - Ben Zwigi
Victoria the Great (1937) - Sir Charles Dilke
Jennifer Hale (1937) - Sharman
The Academy Decides (1937)
Who Goes Next? (1938) - Capt. Grover
The Challenge (1938) - Rev. Charles Hudson
The Villiers Diamond (1938) - Silas Wade
Lady in the Fog (1952) - Boswell - the airport manager
Will Any Gentleman...? (1953) - Mr. Brown
Face the Music (1954) - Trumpet Salesman
Television
- In Search of Valour (1939)
References
^ http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba5289344
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^ "The Teresa Deevy Archive".
- Ralph Erskine, Birch, Francis Lyall (1889–1956), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
Action this Day edited by Michael Smith & Ralph Erskine (2001, Bantam London)
ISBN 0-593-04910-1- Who was Who 1951-1960
External links
Frank Birch on IMDb
Francis Birch at the Teresa Deevy Archive
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