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Hugh Anthony Glanmor Williams (6 March 1904 – 7 December 1969) was a British actor and dramatist of Welsh descent. Early life and career Hugh Anthony Glanmor Williams (nicknamed "Tam") was born at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex to Hugh Dafydd Anthony Williams (1869-1905) and Hilda (née Lewis). The Williams family lived at Bedford Park, in Chiswick, West London. His paternal grandfather was Hugh Williams (1796-1874), a Welsh solicitor and anti-establishment political activist. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was a popular film and stage actor, who became a major film star in the British cinema of the 1930s. In 1930 he toured America in the cast of the R.C. Sheriff play Journey's End and appeared in his first film Charley's Aunt during a spell in Hollywood. He then returned to Britain and became a mainstay of the British film industry. He made 57 film appearances as an actor between 1930 and 1967. He collaborated with his second wife on several plays, such as The Grass Is Greener and the screenplay for the subsequent film. He died from an aortic aneurysm, aged 65, in London. During the Second World War, he served as a Captain in “Phantom” GHQ Liaison Regiment. Marriages and grandchildren He was married twice: Gwynne Whitby (1925–1940) (two children) Lou Williams Prue Williams Margaret Vyner (1940–1969) (three children): Hugo Williams (born 1942), poet Simon Williams (born 1946), actor who married Belinda Carroll and Lucy Fleming Polly Williams (1950-2004), actress who married Nigel Havers and his grandchildren included: Kate Dunn, actress Amy Williams, actress Tam Williams, actor Filmography Writing credits The Grass Is Greener (play) (1952, book) Plaintiff in a Pretty Hat (1957, play, with Margaret Williams) The Grass Is Greener (1960, screenplay) The Irregular Verb to Love (1961, play, with Margaret Williams) Charlie Girl (book, with Margaret Williams) Selected stage roles Journey's End (1930) Grand Hotel (1931) While Parents Sleep (1932) Flowers of the Forest (1935) Notable television appearances Masterpiece Playhouse in episode: Richard III (episode No. 1.2) (1950) The Count of Monte Cristo playing Millet in episode: "Flight to Calais" Colonel March of Scotland Yard playing Harold Hartley in episode: "The Talking Head" (episode No. 1.11) (1956) Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents as Shayar (sic!) in "Scheherezade" (episode No. 5.10) (1956) The New Adventures of Charlie Chan playing Inspector Marlowe in episode: "Dateline Execution" (episode No. 1.18) (1957) The New Adventures of Charlie Chan playing Inspector Marlowe in episode: "No Future for Frederick" (episode No. 1.23) (1958) The New Adventures of Charlie Chan playing Inspector Marlowe in episode: "Safe Deposit" (episode No. 1.24) (1958) References Bibliography Sweet, Matthew. Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema. Faber and Faber, 2005. External links Hugh Williams at IMDb Hugh Williams at the Internet Broadway Database . Discover the Hugh Williams popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Hugh Williams books.
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David Copperfield
Charles DickensNow a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelis...
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Peter Pan
J.M. BarrieHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of bestloved, essential classics.‘Second to the right … and then straight on till morning!’Desperate to hear bedtime stories,...
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The Periodic Table
Paul Parsons & Gail DixonThe Periodic Table is one of the most recognizable images in science and in our culture. Its 118 elements make up everything on our planet and in the entire universe. But how many...
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Statesmanship
Various AuthorsNo British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than The New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural lif...
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony DoerrNOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIESfrom producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia LobertiWinner of the Pulitzer Prize an...
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Barnum
Robert Wilson“Robert Wilson’s Barnum, the first fulldress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story…It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves.” The...
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Stark
Ben EltonStark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying.Deep in Western Australia wher...
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Blind Faith
Ben EltonImagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion.Trafford wouldn't call himsel...
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State Texas v. Hugh Williams
Supreme Court Of UtahThis is an appeal by the State of the district courts order dismissing four indictments. TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 44.01(a)(1). At the time of the alleged offense the appelle...