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George Emlyn Williams, CBE born 26 November 1905, known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh dramatist and actor.
His only film as a director, The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949), which he also wrote and starred in, marked the screen debut of his fellow Welshman, Richard Burton.
Williams often appeared in his own plays, and was famous for his one-man-shows, with which he toured the world, playing Charles Dickens in an evening of excerpts from Dickens' novels. This"one man show" was the start of a whole new theatrical genre. He followed up his Dickens performance with one man shows based on the works of Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas Growing Up, and H.H. Munro better known under his pseudonym Saki.
He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1962.
Emlyn Williams died at his flat in Dovehouse Street, Chelsea, London - aged 81, from complications from cancer on 25 September 1987.
Plays
Full Moon
A Murder has been Arranged
Spring 1600
Night Must Fall
He was Born Gay
The Corn is Green
The Light of Heart
The Morning Star
A Month in the Country (Adapted from the play by Turgenev)
The Druid's Rest
The Wind of Heaven
Trespass
Accolade
Someone Waiting
Beth,
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