About Cedric Belfrage
Cedric Henning Belfrage (8 November 1904 – 21 June 1990) was an English film critic, journalist, writer and political activist. He is best remembered as a co-founder of the radical US weekly National Guardian. Later Belfrage was referenced as a Soviet agent in the US intelligence Venona project, although it appears he had been working for British Security Co-ordination as a double agent. == Early years == Cedric Henning Belfrage was born in Marylebone, London, on 8 November 1904, the son of Frances Grace (née Powley) and Sydney Henning Belfrage, a physician and author. He was educated at Gresham's School, before entering Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. There he had the same room as Christopher Marlowe had in the 16th century. While still a Cambridge student, Belfrage began a writing career as a film critic, with a first article in Kinematograph Weekly in 1924. In 1927, he went to Hollywood, where he was hired by the New York Sun and Film Weekly as a correspondent. Belfrage returned to London in 1930 as Sam Goldwyn's press agent. Returning again to Hollywood, he became politically active, joining the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and co-editing the left-wing literary magazine The Clipper.
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