Researching David Bradley
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 24044 people with the Bradley surname? In that year Bradley was ranked number 136 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name David means "beloved" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for David Bradley and the Bradley Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 38418 people with the Bradley surname in the UK? Bradley is now ranked number 116 for popularity in the UK. |
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David Bradley (English actor)
David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor. He is known for playing Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film series, Walder Frey in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, Abraham Setrakian in the FX horror series The Strain, and for voicing Merlin in Guillermo del Toro’s animated Netflix series Tales of Arcadia (for which he won an Annie Award for Best Voice Actor in a Television Series). He is also an established stage actor, with a career that includes a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in a production of King Lear.
In 2012, Bradley played Solomon in the Doctor Who episode "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship". In 2013, he portrayed William Hartnell, the actor who played the First Doctor, in the Doctor Who docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time. He returned to Doctor Who in 2017, appearing as the First Doctor in "The Doctor Falls" and "Twice Upon a Time". Since January 2018, he has reprised the role in a series of audio stories released by Big Finish entitled The First Doctor Adventures.
Source: David Bradley (English actor), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaDavid Bradley (novelist)
David Henry Bradley, Jr. (born 1950, in Bedford, Pennsylvania) is the author of South Street and The Chaneysville Incident, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1982. Both novels have been recently released in electronic editions by Open Road Media.The Chaneysville Incident, inspired in part by the real-life discovery of the graves of a group of runaway slaves on a farm near Chaneysville in Bedford County, PA, where Bradley was born, also earned Bradley a 1982 Academy Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His short story "You Remember the Pinmill" (winner of a 2014 O. Henry Award) was published in 2013 in Narrative Magazine.
Since 1985, Bradley has worked primarily in creative nonfiction, with pieces in Esquire, Redbook, The New York Times, Philadelphia Magazine, The Pennsylvania Gazette, The Nation and Dissent. His work has also appeared online in Obit, Narrative, and Brevity. Bradley holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in United States Studies from the University of London, and was a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon.He appeared on the June 12, 2011 episode of 60 Minutes in a segment regarding the censored version of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Source: David Bradley (novelist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaDavid Bradley (UK journalist)
David Bradley (born 1966 in England) is a British journalist specializing in science and technology. After graduating in 1988 with a degree in chemistry from Newcastle University, he began his career in technical editing at the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1989 and built up a freelance writing business in his spare time before going full-time freelance in the mid-1990s. He has contributed to a wide range of popular science publications, including Popular Science, American Scientist, New Scientist and Science. As well as numerous newspapers (The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph) and trade magazines (Chemistry in Britain, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Nature), and websites (ChemWeb.com, BioMedNet.com, SpectroscopyNOW.com).
He launched the Elemental Discoveries chemistry webzine in 1996 and in 1999 relaunched it under the Sciencebase banner. Sciencebase was featured in ACS magazine C&EN. This website has also served as a model for the Reactive Reports webzine (which featured in C&EN and the new formats of Chemspy and the tech tips site Sciencetext.
Bradley was a Daily Telegraph-British Association Young Science Writer of the Year, was a runner up in the inaugural awards for science communication made by the UK's Chemical Industry Association, a merit winner in the British Medical Journalism awards, and is the author of Deceived Wisdom (Elliott & Thompson, 2012; ).
Source: David Bradley (UK journalist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Bradley
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