| Sir Gerald Beadle CBE | |
| Birth Name: | Gerald Clayton Beadle |
| Birth Date: | 17 April 1899 |
| Birth Place: | Belvedere, Kent, England |
| Death Date: | 6 November 1976 (aged 77) |
| Death Place: | Bath, Somerset, England[1] |
| Occupation: | radio announcer, administrator |
| Employer: | BBC Radio, BBC Television |
Sir Gerald Clayton Beadle CBE (17 April 1899 - 6 November 1976) was a British announcer and administrator for BBC Radio, and later Director of BBC Television.
Beadle was born in Belvedere, Kent, to Clayton Beadle (1868–1917), a chemist, and Helen Pears Beadle.[2] [3] [4]
He joined the BBC in 1923, as a radio announcer. He left in 1924 and rejoined in 1926 as station director in Belfast. He moved to the television team in 1936.[5] He was instrumental in establishing the BBC's Television Centre, in London.
He was knighted in December 1960.
He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 30 October 1961.[6]
His portrait, a 1961 photograph by Walter Bird, is in the National Portrait Gallery.[7]
He died on 6 November 1976.