• Windsor Davies
  {{short description|Welsh actor (1930–2019)}} ...[Welsh English|Welsh-accented]] voice was heard extensively in advertising voice-overs.
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• Donald Houston
  ...d Daniel Houston''' (6 November 1923&nbsp;– 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 stag
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• Jack Smethurst
  ...b|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg8qCkUh2t0|title=Richard Raises His Voice At Hyacinth &#124; Keeping Up Appearances|via=YouTube}}</ref> ...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
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• Roger Livesey
  ...oad with a mop of chestnut hair, Livesey used his highly distinctive husky voice, gentle manner and athletic physique to create many notable roles in his th ...35</ref> His two step-brothers (who were also his first cousins) were also actors.
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• Harry Secombe
  | 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 of
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• Victor Spinetti
  {{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 o
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• Ronald Lacey
  ...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 ...cheek, which he chose not to have removed, as well as a highly distinctive voice. In 1983's ''[[Trenchcoat (film)|Trenchcoat]]'', he used the mole as a beau
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• Arthur Askey
  ...[[Novelty song|novelty]] recordings for [[His Master's Voice|His Master's Voice]] include "The Bee Song" (1938), a lasting part of his act. From the 1950s, Askey served in the [[Royal Welsh Fusiliers|Royal Welsh Fusiliers]] in the [[First World War|First World War]] and performed in arm
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• Wilfrid Hyde-White
  ...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://s
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• Hywel Bennett
  ...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="aberdee
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• David Jason
  ...yfanwy-talog-6175249|title=Sir David Jason opens up on tragic romance with Welsh actress|first1=Sion|last1=Morgan|date=13 October 2013|website=WalesOnline}} ...illingsgate Fish Market|Billingsgate Fish Market]], and his [[Welsh people|Welsh]] mother, Olwen Jones, was from [[Merthyr Tydfil|Merthyr Tydfil]], [[Glamor
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• Terry Jones
  ...fe of Brian director dies, aged 77|newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> was a Welsh comedian, director, historian, actor, writer and member of the [[Monty Pyth ...Wales]] programme ''[[Coming Home (UK TV series)|Coming Home]]'' about his Welsh family history. In July 2014, Jones reunited with the other four living Pyt
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• Kenneth Williams
  Williams stated in his diaries that he believed he was of [[Welsh people|Welsh]] extraction because of his parents' surnames (Williams was later proven co ...f Hour]]'', a radio series starring [[Tony Hancock]]. Playing mostly funny voice roles, Williams stayed in the series almost to the end, five years later. H
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• List of The Goon Show cast members and characters
  ...''[[The Greatest Mountain in the World]]''; he announces himself as 'Sex: male; name: Bogg F, Superintendent, Ministry of Works and Housing', and declares ...s (''à la'' [[Mai Jones|Mai Jones]]) end virtually every sentence with the Welsh word "bach" (which means 'small' – occasionally, a Welshman will refer to
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• Willie Rushton
  ...don, the only child of publisher John Atherton Rushton (1908-1958) and his Welsh wife Veronica (née James, 1910-1977). He was educated at [[Shrewsbury Scho ...tations of [[Asterix]] books and ''Alice in Wonderland'', and provided the voice of the King in the early animated [[Muzzy in Gondoland|Muzzy]] films. In th
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• Mervyn Johns
  ...[[né]] '''John'''; 18 February 1899{{spaced ndash}}6 September 1992) was a Welsh stage, film and television character actor who became a star of British fil ...Johns |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/222148419 |work=The Voice |location=Tasmania |access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref> They returned to th
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• George Melly
  ...Britain had taken place at [[Alexandra Palace]]. The event included [[Alex Welsh]], [[Diz Disley]], [[Acker Bilk]], [[Chris Barber]], [[Kenny Ball]], [[Ken George Melly With Alex Welsh and his Dixielanders
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• Peter Ustinov
  ...utory notice of his application for citizenship was published in a [[Wales|Welsh]] newspaper so as not to alert the Germans.<ref>According to Ustinov in his ...n ''Evil under the Sun'' (his other Poirot roles being undertaken by three actors). However, he provided only his English and German voices for [[Walt Disney
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• Rolf Harris
  ...ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/rolf-harris/ Rolf Harris], BBC Welsh Arts. Retrieved 27 June 2014</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/2011040 ...''[[Coming Home (UK TV series)|Coming Home]]'', in which he discussed his Welsh family history.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007d2y
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• It Ain't Half Hot Mum
  ...aint-half-hot-mum-obituary/|title=Windsor Davies, starred as the bellowing Welsh sergeant major in ‘It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum’ – obituary|newspaper=The ...eps them out of combat duty, but some do daydream of becoming world-famous actors when they leave the army.
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