biography
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Williams, (George) Emlyn
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1905–87)
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| biography:
| Playwright and actor, born in Pen-y-ffordd, Flintshire, NE Wales, UK. He studied at Oxford, joined a repertory company in 1927, and achieved success as a playwright with A Murder Has Been Arranged (1930) and the psychological thriller, Night Must Fall (1935). He appeared in many London and Broadway productions, featured in several films, and gave widely acclaimed readings from the works of Dickens, Dylan Thomas, and Munro (Saki). He wrote the autobiographical George (1961) and Emlyn (1973), as well as Beyond Belief (1967), and a novel, Headlong (1980). |
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