Wales has a fine theatrical reputation to live up to with some of the worlds best actors, actress' and screen writers born and bred in this ancient land! Even more surprising is how many Hollywood stars ...
Richard Walter Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. on 10 November 1925 at 2 Dan-y-bont, Pontrhydyfen, a small mining village in the Afan Valley of West Glamorgan. He was the twelfth of thirteen ...
Richard Davies was born Dennis Wilfred Davies on 25 January 1926 in Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, the son of a railway guard. He went on to become one of the most familiar Welsh character actors ...
Josh Richards - billed professionally as Joshua Richards, and known to friends and family back home in Tenby by his given first name, Mark - is a stage and screen actor educated at Greenhill School in ...
... Emlyn Williams and alongside a young RichardBurton in a West End production of The Druid's Rest. The two Welsh boys from the mining valleys had found each other, and a friendship that would last the rest ...
... Claudius. He directed and starred in The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949), which gave a young RichardBurton, whom Williams had spotted at an audition in Cardiff, his screen debut. He was appointed CBE in 1962 ...
... and Richard Jenkins (Burton). His most famous poem (The Bells of Rhymney) was turned into a song by American folk singer Pete Seeger.
Connection: Born in Rhymney.
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... Dylan Thomas and RichardBurton were also from England.
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Hello, my family is from Wales on both sides, Mom and Dad. I can go back as far a five generations of lineage still ...
... in Pontarddulais, Swansea, South Wales in the summer of 1912.
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In 1954 her work caught the attention of a very famous Welshman when RichardBurton and his first wife Sybil bought ...
... been so many tears in Pont since RichardBurton died. John commented after the game 'I got off the bus this morning a mere mortal, I'm now getting on the bus 'a living god'.
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... in the Peter Sellers comedy Only Two Can Play (1962), the medic Witty alongside RichardBurton in The Wild Geese (1978), and appearances in both the 1955 film The Prisoner and the classic 1967-68 ITC television ...
... in 'Carry On Jack' (1963). He also shared the screen with two fellow sons of Wales, RichardBurton and William Squire, in 'Where Eagles Dare' (1968), alongside Clint Eastwood. His final screen role came ...
Lee John Martin Evans was born on 25 February 1964 in Avonmouth, Bristol — the son of Dave Evans, a Welsh comedian, musician and impressionist from North Wales, and his Irish wife Shirley Hunt. The Welsh ...
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Her most celebrated role came in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), the lavish historical drama starring RichardBurton as Henry VIII and Geneviève Bujold as Anne Boleyn. Valerie played Mary Boleyn — ...
... the ballerina with the embarrassing question? Fancy a drink sometime?
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Saw the show in Rickmansworth on Saturday, was perfect, poignant and made my sister a 'hooting' star. ...
... he was born in margam, a stone's throw away from RichardBurton and not too far from Catherine Zeta-Jones or Rob Brydon.
Must be something about that part of Wales that brings the 'actor' out. Strangly, ...
... Afan Valley where RichardBurton had been born the previous year. The two boys grew up together, and the friendship endured. Welsh-speaking and steeped in the eisteddfodic tradition, young Ivor sang in ...
... played Mr. Pugh in Andrew Sinclair's 1972 film adaptation of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, alongside RichardBurton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole. He died of a heart attack in Cardiff on 4 November ...
... on to become a member of the original cast of Under Milk Wood, broadcast live on the BBC Third Programme alongside RichardBurton, and later appeared in the stage production of Under Milk Wood at the Globe ...
... at an audition in Cardiff: RichardBurton. The two remained close, and Williams later became godfather to Burton's daughter, the actress Kate Burton.
Williams was appointed CBE in 1962 and received an ...