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Gareth Hughes Wales' first silent Hollywood film star
by desertpadre on Jul 12, 2010
What connects Sir Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta Jones, Richard Burton, Sian Phillips, Michael Sheen, Shirley Bassey, Ray Milland, Tom Jones,…. and Dylan Thomas.
Have you spotted a connection? Correct!
The answer….. They were all born and raised in South Wales. A regional noted for its extraordinarily talented people who have - and continue to – punched way above their weight in stage and screen entertainment.
But who was the VERY first Welsh Hollywood film star?
Who was the man that as a penniless teenager that didn’t ‘fit in’ and walked over 200 miles to London in search of his dream….
A man who learnt his stage craft from the glory names that crowded the golden era that included Chaplin, Lugosi, Novello, Woolfit , Ellen Terry, Guilgud, May McAvoy, Valentino, Clara Kimball Young, Gary Cooper to name a handful…..
The same man who later inspired an established ex actor and former President of the USA to attempt to make a movie...Read More >>
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