Richard Llewellyn

Richard Llewellyn was born on Dec 08, 1906 in UK. Richard Llewellyn's big-screen debut came with Inspector Hornleigh directed by Eugene Forde in 1939. Richard Llewellyn is known for How Green Was My Valley directed by John Ford, Walter Pidgeon stars as Mr. Gruffydd and Maureen O'Hara as Angharad. The upcoming new movie Richard Llewellyn plays is A Tale of Five Women which will be released on Jan 15, 1952.

Welsh novelist and playwright Richard Llewellyn was born Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd in Pembrokeshire, Wales. He attended school in Cardiff and London, and when he was 16 he spent two years in Italy learning hotel management. While there he got work with an Italian film company, learning the basics of filmmaking. Returning to the UK, he joined the army and served for five years, leaving in 1931. Jobless, he got work as an extra in several films. To supplement his meager income, he got a job as a reporter on a newspaper covering the film industry, and it was then that he decided to become a writer. He stayed in the film business, however, working his way up to assistant director, writer, production manager and, finally, director. However, a downturn in the industry caused him to turn to playwriting. His first play, "Poison Pen", was eventually produced on the London stage and was quite successful.