| W. Louis Bradfield | |
| Birth Name: | Walter Louis Bradfield |
| Birth Date: | 13 June 1866 |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Death Place: | Brighton, Sussex, England |
| Occupation: | Actor and singer |
| Years Active: | 1889–1918 |
Walter Louis Bradfield (13 June 1866 – 12 August 1919), was an English actor and singer who starred in Edwardian musical comedy and other theatrical works.
The son of William Bradfield, a civil servant, Bradfield was born on 13 June 1866, educated at the Grocers' School, Hackney, and first appeared on stage in 1889 in a pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham.[1] In 1888, before taking up the theatrical life, he had married Jessie B. Best.[2]
Bradfield's notable roles include playing the leading man, Captain Coddington, in the Broadway production of the musical comedy In Town, which opened in New York in 1897, in which Bradfield played a hard-up army officer who takes all the actresses of the Ambiguity Theatre out to lunch and marries one of them.[3] [4] His other stage engagements in leading roles, most of them in London's West End, included A Gaiety Girl (1893–1894), as Bobbie Rivers;[3] The Geisha (1896), as Dick Cunningham;[5] The Girl from Kays (1902–1903), as Harry Gordon; The Little Michus (1905–1906); and The Merveilleuses (1906–1907), as Lagorille, the Incroyable.
On 4 September 1905 Bradfield played in a one-day cricket match at Lord's, representing "The Actors" against "The Jockeys". He scored six runs and was bowled by Chaloner.[6]
In 1908 The Actors' Birthday Book said of Bradfield -
He died at Brighton on 12 August 1919.[7] [8]