Brefni O'Rorke (26 June 1889 â€" 11 November 1946) was an Irish film
actor. He began studying acting with his mother, the actress Jane
O'Rorke née Morgan who was born in 1858, and there was a brother,
Frederic, twelve years old than him. He made his professional début
in 1912 at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin in a production of Shaw's John
Bull's Other Island. While still living in Dublin, he met and married
in 1916 Alice Cole, a chorus-girl turned actress, who had divorced her
first husband and immigrated from South Africa with her young son.
Thus O'Rorke became the stepfather of Cyril Cusack.In 1939 he appeared
in several broadcasts in the new fledgling BBC television broadcast,
including a play by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy called The King of
Spain's Daughter, and produced by Denis Johnston.National Television
started in October 1936, initially broadcast just two hours a day.
National Television stopped broadcast at the start of the War, and
didn't restart until 1946."Plays" (like everything else) could last
just one hour maximum, but some were only 25 minutes long. Also, there
was no recording possible, so any repeat was really a new broadcast
(as in The Advantages of Paternity).
actor. He began studying acting with his mother, the actress Jane
O'Rorke née Morgan who was born in 1858, and there was a brother,
Frederic, twelve years old than him. He made his professional début
in 1912 at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin in a production of Shaw's John
Bull's Other Island. While still living in Dublin, he met and married
in 1916 Alice Cole, a chorus-girl turned actress, who had divorced her
first husband and immigrated from South Africa with her young son.
Thus O'Rorke became the stepfather of Cyril Cusack.In 1939 he appeared
in several broadcasts in the new fledgling BBC television broadcast,
including a play by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy called The King of
Spain's Daughter, and produced by Denis Johnston.National Television
started in October 1936, initially broadcast just two hours a day.
National Television stopped broadcast at the start of the War, and
didn't restart until 1946."Plays" (like everything else) could last
just one hour maximum, but some were only 25 minutes long. Also, there
was no recording possible, so any repeat was really a new broadcast
(as in The Advantages of Paternity).
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