WELSH ACTORS AND ACTRESSES

By: Kenji

Welsh cinema may not have set the world alight but Wales has certainly produced at least its fair share of acting talent. 6 Oscar winners marked below. Not that i should be promoting the primacy of the Oscars, Hollywood, Anglophone culture, the big buck and razzmatazz: tut tut!

RICHARD BURTON

Alexander the Great
Look Back in Anger
The Longest Day
Cleopatra
Becket
Night of the Iguana
The Spy who Came in from the Cold
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Taming of the Shrew
Where Eagles Dare
Anne of the Thousand Days
1984

ANTHONY HOPKINS

The Lion in Winter
Magic
The Elephant Man
The Good Father
84 Charing Cross Road
The Silence of the Lambs (Oscar)
Howards End
The Remains of the Day
Shadowlands
Legends of the Fall
Nixon
Amistad
The Mask of Zorro
Titus
The World’s Fastest Indian

STANLEY BAKER

The Criminal
The Guns of Navarone
Eva
Zulu
Accident
Robbery

CHRISTIAN BALE

Empire of the Sun
American Psycho
The Machinist
Batman Begins
The Prestige
The Dark Knight
3:10 to Yuma
The Fighter (Oscar)

JONATHAN PRYCE

Brazil
The Age of Innocence
Carrington
Tomorrow Never Dies
The Testimony of Taliesin Jones
The New World
Pirates of the Caribbean

CATHERINE ZETA-JONES

The Mask of Zorro
Traffic
Chicago (Oscar)

MICHAEL SHEEN

Heartlands
The Queen
Frost-Nixon
The Damned United
Twilight Saga: New Moon
Alice in Wonderland (as the white rabbit)
Midnight in Paris
Resistance

ROGER LIVESEY

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
I Know Where I’m Going
A Matter of Life and Death

MERVYN JOHNS (father of Glynis)

Went the Day Well?
The Halfway House
Dead of Night
Scrooge/A Christmas Carol
The Heroes of Telemark

GLYNIS JOHNS (daughter of Mervyn)

The Halfway House
Personal Affair
The Court Jester
Mary Poppins
Under Milk Wood

EDMUND GWENN

Miracle on 34th Street (Oscar)
The Trouble with Harry

RACHEL ROBERTS

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
This Sporting Life
O Lucky Man
Picnic at Hanging Rock

RAY MILLAND

Easy Living
Ministry of Fear
The Uninvited
Lost Weekend (Oscar)
The Thief
Dial M for Murder
The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

IVOR NOVELLO

The Lodger

HUGH GRIFFITH

The Titfield Thunderbolt
Ben Hur (Oscar)
Tom Jones

PEGGY CUMMINS

Gun Crazy
Night of the Demon

TERRY JONES

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python’s Life of Brian

TIMOTHY DALTON

The Lion in Winter
Flash Gordon
The Living Daylights

DESMOND LLEWELYN

Goldfinger (and other Bond films as “Q”)

JOHN RHYS DAVIES

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Lord of the Rings

SIAN PHILLIPS

Becket
Under Milk Wood
Valmont
The Age of Innocence

IOAN GRUFFUDD

Titanic
Solomon and Gaenor
102 Dalmatians
Fantastic Four

NAUNTON WAYNE

The Lady Vanishes

DAWN FRENCH

Coraline (as Miss Miriam Forcible)

HARRY SECOMBE

Oliver!

RHYS IFANS

Notting Hill
Mr Nice

PAUL WHITEHOUSE

Finding Neverland
Corpse Bride
Alice in Wonderland (as the March hare)

MATTHEW RHYS

Titus
The Edge of Love

KEITH ALLEN (father of pop singer Lily Allen)

Comrades
Twin Town

PAM FERRIS

Meantime
Matilda
Children of Men

ROB BRYDON

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

oh and child actress/Big Brother winner Rachel Roberts (a rose among thorns on that programme)

Welsh parentage: Bette Davis, Myrna Loy, Naomi Watts, Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Humphrey Bogart, Esther Williams, Bob Hope, Charlie Chaplin, Glenn Ford, Susan Sarandon, Rosanna and Patricia Arquette, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alan Rickman