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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

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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

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