Brefni O'Rorke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Brefni O'Rorke

film actor

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1889

Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Date of Death: 11-Nov-1946

Profession: actor

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Brefni O'Rorke

  • Brefni O'Rorke (26 June 1889 – 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.

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