Bernard Chastey Braden (16 May 1916 – 2 February 1993) was a Canadian-born British actor and comedian, who is best known for his appearances in UK television and radio shows.
In Breakfast with Braden (for the BBC, from January 1950) he played American serviceman "Brandon Marlow" (a caricature of Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire).
Jock Watson and, later, Francis Coleman produced this Saturday late-night show, which also examined current political issues affecting the British public.
In the same year he played Flight Surgeon Randall in the British film The War Lover, alongside Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner and a young Michael Crawford.
He also narrated the 20-minute British Transport Films short The Coasts of Clyde, in which he announces himself as a Canadian traveller arriving in Scotland in pursuit of an ancestor in the land of his parents.
On the stage he appeared in two Tennessee Williams plays, as Mitch in the London premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire alongside Vivien Leigh, and later as the lead in Period of Adjustment.