Dafydd Hywel Explained

Dafydd Hywel
Birth Date:1945 12, df=y
Birth Place:Garnant, Wales
Death Place:Garnant, Wales

Dafydd Hywel (4 December 1945 – 23 March 2023)[1] [2] was a Welsh actor who worked extensively in television roles and films in both Welsh and English medium since 1969. He is best known for playing Glen Brennig in the Sky1 TV comedy drama series Stella.[3] [4]

Dafydd also narrated Video 125s 'The Cambrian Coast' Railway Drivers Eye View Video in 1988.

On 23 March 2023, it was announced that Hywel had died at the age of 77.[5]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1986 Coming Up Roses Trevor Welsh with English subtitles
1984 Yr Alcoholig Llon Alun
1987 Milwr Bychan Sargeant Crane
1992 Rebecca's Daughters Rhodri Hughes
1992 The Christmas Stallion Christopher Howard

TV

YearTitleRoleNotes
1978Off to Philadelphia in the Morning Henry Parry
1989–1991 We Are Seven Jamesy James
2010–2013 The Indian Doctor Ceri Joseph
2012–2017 Stella Glen Brennig
2019 The Crown Shopkeeper Season 3, episode 3 "Aberfan"

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Click here to view the tribute page for Dafydd Hywel EVANS .
  2. News: 2023-03-23 . Dafydd Hywel: Tributes to Stella actor who dies aged 77 . en-GB . BBC News . 2023-03-25.
  3. Web site: Lewis . Ffion . 2023-03-23 . Tributes to Keeping Faith and Stella actor Dafydd Hywel who has died aged 77 . 2023-03-25 . WalesOnline . en.
  4. http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Veteran-s-blast-TV-chiefs/story-20103598-detail/story.html Dafydd Hywel autobiography
  5. Web site: 2023-03-23 . "Colled aruthrol" ar ôl yr actor Dafydd Hywel, sydd wedi marw'n 77 oed . 2023-03-23 . Golwg360 . cy.