Emlyn Williams, playwright, actor, and director, has been a luminary in London's West End and on New York's Broadway since the late 1920s. His Night Must Fall (1935) is one of the most successful and chilling psychological thrillers of the modern...

Emlyn Williams is known primarily as an actor-playwright, perhaps more particularly in the United States as a reader-impersonator of Charles Dickens since 1951 and of Dylan Thomas since 1955. He has performed in many plays and motion pictures; directed...

Emlyn Williams, a former president of the South Wales area of the National Union of Mineworkers, encapsulated the tenacity and resilience of a coal field now reduced to a single deep mine. He was at the helm from 1973 to 1985, a period during...

Emlyn Williams, 81, the Welsh actor and playwright who wrote "The Corn Is Green" and did notable one-man shows of the works of Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas, died today at his home in London. He had cancer. The son of a factory...

"Morning Star" is by the Anglo-Welsh actor Emlyn Williams, who was first introduced to New York as the author of the excellent theatrical thriller called "Night Must Fall" and who later revealed his more earnest side in "The Corn Is Green." It is the writer of the second, not the writer of the first, who is recognizable in the new play, but "Morning Star" is, nevertheless, not nearly so good as "The Corn Is Green." Probably the explanatio...

Emlyn Williams wrote "The Corn Is Green" out of his boyhood experience. He wrote "Night Must Fall" out of his inventive imagination, touched off possibly by a newspaper clipping. "Yesterday's Magic" he wrote chiefly out of his memory of other men's plays. His personal contribution amounts to little more than Welsh names for the principal characters and a Welsh song in the opening act. It's the play about the celebrated actor who sold out to John...

[In "George: An Early Autobiography,"] Emlyn Williams, the actor and playwright … tells us how he made the long march from a poverty-stricken Welsh village … to the London stage, where he got his first part at the age of twenty-one. He did it one step at a time, one scholarship after another, the last and most splendid to Oxford, where it was assumed that he would improve his great opportunity by preparing for a government job. The book requires such adjectives as charming and li...