Julian Rochfort Belfrage (19 February 1934 – 28 December 1994) was an actor's agent whose clients included Dame Judi Dench, Sir John Hurt, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Warner, Sir Ian Holm and Colin Blakely.

[2] Belfrage's obituary in The Independent stated that he ‘often fired clients he did not like and yet the lowest he would sink in condemnation was that such and such didn't know how to live’.

[5] He started his career as the understudy to Peter Barkworth in a London play, Roar Like a Dove.

[2] In the 1960s he joined another London agency, Terence Plunkett-Green, before going into partnership with Michael Whitehall trading as Leading Artists.

[7][8] He died in London on 28 December 1994 and a number of races were subsequently named in his honour; the Julian Belfrage Memorial Chase was held at Towcester Racecourse on 19 March 1997.