Bob Danvers-Walker
British radio, television and newsreel announcer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cyril Frederick "Bob" Danvers-Walker (11 October 1906 – 17 May 1990) was a British radio and newsreel announcer best known as the offscreen voice of Pathé News cinema newsreels during the Second World War and for many years afterward.
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Born | Cyril Frederick Danvers-Walker (1906-10-11)11 October 1906 |
Died | 17 May 1990(1990-05-17) (aged 83) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
Occupation(s) | Radio, television and newsreel presenter |
Known for | Voice of Pathé News |
Spouse |
Vera Nita White (m. 1933) |
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His voice was described as "clear, fruity and rich, with just the suggestion of raffishness".[1] Kenneth Branagh has stated that he was consciously imitating Danvers-Walker's "perky tone" in a spoof "newsreel" segment in his 2000 film Love's Labour's Lost.[2]