![]() ![]() Having made his debut into films in 1932, Williams acted in and wrote dozens of movies, accepting such roles as Caligula in the never-finished I Claudius (1936) and Emile Zola in I Accuse (1958). For the next five decades, he flourished as an actor, playwright, director, novelist and essayist.īeginning with Full Moon (1927), Williams penned some thirty plays, the most famous of which were his psychological murder melodrama Night Must Fall (1935) and his autobiographical, award-winning period piece The Corn Is Green (1938). After attending Christ College, Oxford and a college in Switzerland, Williams made his first stage appearance in the 1927 London production And So to Bed. Welshman Emlyn Williams, born at Mostyn, Flintshire in 1905, might very well have followed his family and friends into a lifetime in the coal mines but he was inspired to more intellectual pursuits by a compassionate schoolteacher by the name of Miss Cooke, who became a lifelong fan and supporter. ![]()
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