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Hywel Thomas Bennett (8 April 1944 – 24 July 2017) was a Welsh film and television actor. He had a lead role in The Family Way (1966) and played the titular "thinking man's layabout" James Shelley in the television sitcom Shelley (1979–1992).. Bennett played opposite Hayley Mills in The Family Way, Twisted Nerve (1968) and Endless Night (1972). Other notable film roles include Private Brigg in the comedy The Virgin Soldiers (1969), Dennis in Loot (1970) and Edwin Antony in Percy (1971 ...
Hywel Bennett. Actor: Neverwhere. Hywel Bennett was born on 8 April 1944 in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Neverwhere (1996), Percy (1971) and Twisted Nerve (1968). He was married to Sandra Layne Fulford and Cathy McGowan. He died on 25 July 2017 in Deal, Kent, England, UK.
Actor Hywel Bennett, known for his roles in Shelley and EastEnders, has died aged 73, his agent has confirmed. The Carmarthenshire-born actor's roles included 1960s films The Family Way, with ...
Aug 11, 2017 · For a time in the late 1960s, the name of Hywel Bennett ranked alongside that of David Hemmings as the epitome of the ultra-fashionable leading man. In 1969, he was described by Roger Ebert as “one of England's best young actors” but, as Bennett subsequently reflected, by the early 1970s he found himself “with nowhere to go”. However, the figure associated with “Swinging London” was to reinvent himself as a major character actor, a transformation anticipated by his remarkable ...
Aug 4, 2017 · Hywel Bennett was an actor best known for starring in the Sixties film Virgin Soldiers and for taking the title role of Shelley in the television series broadcast in the late Seventies and early ...
Hywel Bennett. Actor: Neverwhere. Hywel Bennett was born on 8 April 1944 in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Neverwhere (1996), Percy (1971) and Twisted Nerve (1968). He was married to Sandra Layne Fulford and Cathy McGowan. He died on 25 July 2017 in Deal, Kent, England, UK.
Aug 3, 2017 · Hywel Bennett, the Welsh actor, who has died aged 73, started out in films as a working-class “pretty boy” in the mould of David Hemmings, but became best known for his role as an over ...
Aug 3, 2017 · Actor Hywel Bennett has died at the age of 73. Bennett shot to during the 1970s in TV sitcom Shelley which attracted up to 18 million viewers a week.. Originally broadcast between 1979 and 1984 ...
Aug 3, 2017 · Shelley star Hywel Bennett has died at the age of 73, his former agent has confirmed.
A British actor who was best known for his role as the intelligent layabout title character in Shelley (1979-1984), Bennett reprised his role in The Return of Shelley (1988-1992). His other notable credits included The Virgin Soldiers (1969), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) Neverwhere (1996) and and Eastenders (2003). Read Hywel Bennett's Guardian obituary here.
