David Bradley, Actor

All the world’s a stage, and we are merely players. But, some of us play more than others. Take yours truly for instance, David Bradley Science Writer, also known as David Bradley Lover, Player, Puller, Guitarist, Photographer, Singer (but thankfully not Killer, see BBC news recently). I like to play with extramural pages on the Sciencebase website, creating little vignettes outside the conventional science blog. One of the aims is to ensure that my rather common name is seen more widely in the context of my website rather than web surfers heading elsewhere.

Of course you may actually be looking for the Shakesperean actor David Bradley who most famously plays Argus Filch in the Harry Potter movies. It’s rather a peculiar coincidence that David Bradley the actor is a member of the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) as David Bradley Science Writer is also a member of  the RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry). [UPDATE: I met that David Bradley in a pub once, he told me had had my book and we swapped autographs.

Of course, you may be looking for the other David Bradley actor, known now as Dai Bradley (because of Equity rules) who played Billy Casper in Ken Loach’s movie Kes, adapted from the story A Kestrel for a Knave.

So, here’s the link to Filch the actor – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0103195/

and here’s the link to the Kes actor – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0103193/

There may be other David Bradley actors out there and there may be other links on this page that are of more interest to anyone looking for information on David Bradley, either way, this has been David Bradley Science Writer playing.

This post may have appeared long before 8th January 2009, but that’s the most recent timestamp I have for it in the archives, so that’s the date it gets in the blog.