Rhys Williams Biography

Place of Birth: Merionethshire, Wales
Wiki Biography: Moviegoers can be forgiven if they thought that stocky, jaunty Rhys Williams was a jovial Irishman, as he often played that type of character, but his role as a Welsh miner in John Ford's classic How Green Was My Valley (1941) (his film debut) was much closer to home for him, as he was born and raised in Wales. In fact, he served as a technical advisor and Welsh language consultant on the film. He began his career on the British stage, and traveled the country as a member of various Shakespearean stock companies, even joining the famed Globe Theater company for a spell. Once he began his career in Hollywood, though, he became one of the busiest supporting actors in the business. He appeared in everything from action pictures to mysteries to westerns to musicals. One of his few villainous roles was as a weaselly American reporter in Tokyo on the payroll of the Japanese government just prior to World War II in Blood on the Sun (1945). In addition to his prolific film work, he did much television over the years, appearing in everything from "Maverick" (1957) to "Mission: Impossible" (1966). He died in Santa Monica, California, in 1969, shortly before his last film, Skullduggery (1970), was released.
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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The Farmer's Daughter | Adolph Petree | 1947 | Comedy |
Cavalcade of America | 1952 | Drama |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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So Goes My Love | 0000 | ||
Gentleman Jim | 1942 | Drama, Romance | |
Random Harvest | 1943 | Drama, Romance | |
You Came Along | 1945 | Drama, Romance | |
The Corn is Green | Mr. Jones | 1945 | Drama |
Blood on the Sun | 1945 | Action, Drama | |
The Spiral Staircase | 1946 | ||
Hills of Home | 1948 | ||
The Black Arrow | Bennet Hatch | 1948 | Action, Adventure, History |
Tokyo Joe | 1949 | Comedy, 0 | |
The Inspector General | Inspector General | 1949 | Biography, 0 |
The Crooked Way | 1949 | Action, Adventure, Crime | |
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | 1950 | Crime, Drama | |
Carbine Williams | 1952 | 0 | |
The World in His Arms | 1952 | Action, Adventure, History | |
Man in the Attic | 1953 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | |
Johnny Guitar | 1954 | ||
The Black Shield of Falworth | 1954 | Adventure, Romance | |
The Kentuckian | 1955 | Drama | |
The Fastest Gun Alive | 1956 | 0 | |
Raintree County | 1957 | Drama, Romance | |
Merry Andrew | 1958 | 0, 0 | |
Midnight Lace | 1960 | Thriller, Mystery | |
The Sons of Katie Elder | 1965 | ||
Our Man Flint | 1966 | Action, Adventure, Comedy |