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- '''Gwilym Meredith Edwards''' (10 June 1917 – 8 February 1999) was a Welsh [[character actor]] and writer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.u ...ssdate=28 February 2009}}</ref> He became an actor in 1938, first with the Welsh National Theatre Company, then the [[Liverpool Playhouse]].<ref name=obit/>7 KB (922 words) - 23:53, 17 February 2023
- [[Category:20th-century Scottish male actors]] [[Category:21st-century Scottish male actors]]8 KB (1,175 words) - 07:54, 16 March 2023
- ...ccessdate=19 February 2015}}</ref> 22 June 1901 – 17 November 1970), was a Welsh character actor, born in [[Pontypridd|Pontypridd]], [[Glamorgan|Glamorgan]] ...tps://web.archive.org/web/20150219161848/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/actors-actresses/110339-basil-radford-naunton-wayne-3.html |archive-date=19 Februa8 KB (1,099 words) - 08:10, 29 March 2023
- ...name=":0" /> His son Adam, also an actor, is married to the [[Welsh people|Welsh]] actress [[Rakie Ayola]]. Smethurst died at his home in [[Chorleywood]] on [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]11 KB (1,624 words) - 09:02, 3 February 2023
- ...d Daniel Houston''' (6 November 1923 – 13 October 1991) was a [[Wales|Welsh]] actor whose first two films—''[[The Blue Lagoon (1949 film)|The Blue La ...s/entries/10c331cb-8cc2-3175-9b5a-b3d7a6e74702|title=Donald Houston, great Welsh actor|date=7 November 2011|website=BBC}}</ref> In 1940 he performed on stag9 KB (1,335 words) - 17:07, 18 February 2023
- ...n Thomas''' (31 October 1922 – 4 November 1982) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[character actor|character actor]], best known for supporting roles on t ...y You for a Quid", appearing alongside [[Ronnie Barker]] in a community of Welsh gamblers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f9 KB (1,373 words) - 11:41, 22 February 2023
- McCarthy's film credits include memorable roles as Welsh soldier Private Thomas in ''[[Zulu (1964 film)|Zulu]]'' (1964), as Sergeant [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]8 KB (1,178 words) - 12:24, 14 January 2023
- {{short description|Welsh actor (1930–2019)}} ...den]] in ''[[Never the Twain]]'' (1981–1991), and his deep [[Welsh English|Welsh-accented]] voice was heard extensively in advertising voice-overs.15 KB (2,155 words) - 09:01, 26 December 2022
- ...re]], [[Middlesex]], on 2 July 1931, to William Williams, a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformist]], and wife Alice (née Myl [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]13 KB (1,934 words) - 08:01, 29 March 2023
- | nationality = [[Welsh People|Welsh]] ...BR|size=100%|CBE}} (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] comedian, actor, singer and television presenter. Secombe was a member of23 KB (3,423 words) - 15:15, 19 February 2023
- '''Hugh Emrys Griffith''' (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh film, stage, and television actor.<ref>Obituary ''[[Variety Obituaries|Vari ...s|editor3-last=Menna|editor4-first=Peredur I.|editor4-last=Lynch|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Pres12 KB (1,827 words) - 07:58, 16 March 2023
- ...35</ref> His two step-brothers (who were also his first cousins) were also actors. ...whom he had known previously in England<ref>''A Who's Who of British Film Actors'', by Scott Palmer, The Scarecrow Press 1981 p307</ref> (Livesey's sister M12 KB (1,864 words) - 20:18, 15 February 2023
- Price was born in [[Ruscombe]] in [[Berkshire]]. He had distant Welsh family connections, and was the son of [[Brigadier-General|Brigadier-Genera ...//books.google.com/books?id=z3Wl9qRevrEC&pg=PA165 ''British Film Character Actors: Great Names and Memorable Moments''], Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles14 KB (2,144 words) - 13:16, 25 February 2023
- Askey served in the [[Royal Welsh Fusiliers|Royal Welsh Fusiliers]] in the [[First World War|First World War]] and performed in arm [[Category:Male actors from Liverpool]]15 KB (2,289 words) - 22:24, 28 March 2023
- {{short description|Welsh actor and theatre director}} .... WalesOnline (15 September 2010). Retrieved 3 September 2013.</ref> was a Welsh<ref name=obit/> actor, author, poet, and raconteur. He appeared in dozens o23 KB (3,472 words) - 11:25, 11 January 2023
- ...July 1967|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>}} (8 April 1944 – 24 July 2017) was a Welsh film and television actor. He had a lead role in ''[[The Family Way]]'' (1 ...earnt to speak [[English language|English]] in an accent he called "London-Welsh" after the family moved to south London when he was four.<ref name="aberdee25 KB (3,678 words) - 11:57, 18 February 2023
- ...nt that, unlike American actors Falk and [[Richard Basehart]], and British actors appearing in the episode, [[Honor Blackman]], [[Bernard Fox (actor)|Bernard ...7 December 1927, he married Blanche Hope Aitken, a [[Glamorganshire]]-born Welsh actress known professionally as Blanche Glynne (1893–1946),<ref>[http://s18 KB (2,770 words) - 13:53, 21 December 2022
- ...both stage and screen, often as seedy, creepy villains. Together with his Welsh background, it helped qualify him for the role of [[Dylan Thomas]], which h ...the name Brompton as this was her second marriage). They had two children, actors [[Rebecca Lacey|Rebecca Lacey]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Lynda Bellingham|tit13 KB (1,993 words) - 20:11, 15 February 2023
- ...f Midlothian FC]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Comedian Ronnie Corbett launches Welsh Premier League |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/19258982 |work=BBC [[Category:20th-century Scottish male actors]]30 KB (4,195 words) - 15:14, 23 December 2022
- ...02-22}}</ref> [[prop comedian]] and [[Magic (illusion)|magician]] of Anglo-Welsh parentage. As an entertainer, his appearance was large and lumbering at {{c ...e family were lodging. His parents were Thomas H. Cooper, a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] recruiting sergeant in the [[British Army]] and later coal miner, and Cat32 KB (4,615 words) - 23:12, 17 January 2023
