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Williams, (George) Emlyn

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND

Williams, (George) Emlyn (1905–87), Welsh actor, dramatist, and theatre director, who first appeared on the stage in Fagan's And So to Bed (1927) in London and New York, and became well known through his roles in two plays by Edgar Wallace , On the Spot (1930) and The Case of the Frightened Lady (1931). He had already written several plays before the long run of The Late Christopher Bean (1933), his adaptation for London of Sidney Howard's translation of Prenez garde à la peinture by René Fauchois. His Spring 1600 (1934), depicting life backstage in Shakespeare's ...

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