Born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Ballard Berkeley began on stage before becoming a regular in 1930s quota-quickie films, starring in The Last Adventurers (1937). During WWII he served as a Metropolitan Police constable, receiving the Defence Medal and the Special Constabulary Long Service Medal. He appeared in In Which We Serve (1942) and Hitchcock’s Stage Fright (1950), then as Detective Insp…
