Norman Brokenshire

Norman Brokenshire
Norman Brokenshire in 1953
Born
Norman Ernest Brokenshire

(1898-06-10)June 10, 1898
Kingston, Ontario, Canada[1]
DiedMay 4, 1965(1965-05-04) (aged 66)
Hauppauge, New York
OccupationRadio announcer

Norman Ernest Brokenshire (June 10, 1898 – May 4, 1965),[2] nicknamed "Sir Silken Speech", was a familiar radio voice in the 1940s, heard as an announcer on such programs as Theatre Guild on the Air. He was the first radio announcer to break from anonymity and use his name on the air.[3]

His autobiography This Is Norman Brokenshire: An Unvarnished Self-Portrait was published in 1954.[4]

  1. ^ "Take-It-Easy Man Does-at Lake Estate". Newsday. September 28, 1949. p. 5. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  2. ^ DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-2834-2. P. 42.
  3. ^ Taft, William H. (2015). Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Journalists. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317403241. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  4. ^ WorldCat. OCLC 1368151. Retrieved June 26, 2019 – via WorldCat.