Hywell Bennett's Biography
Until John Rhys Davies came upon the scene (see the 'People' section of this website) Hywel Bennett was Ammanford's best known TV and screen actor. He was born in 1944 in Garnant in the Amman Valley but went to Henry Horton Grammar School in London, and trained at RADA. Hywel was born into a Welsh-speaking family but forgot the language when the family moved to London. When he appeared in the Welsh thriller Night of the Hunter, which was filmed in English first and then Welsh, he needed to pick his mother's brains for help in playing the Welsh language scenes. Whilst at drama college he joined the National Youth Theatre where he stayed for five years, playing many leading Shakespearian roles. This including his London stage debut as Ophelia in Hamlet at the opening of the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue – a female role! It's important to note, however, that the production was staged by the Youth Theatre, and that it was traditional for men to play female roles in Shakespeare's time, and that, at 15, Bennett's voice hadn't broken yet.Thereafter, he trafficked in 'angry young men' parts on stage, and as crafty characters posing as naifs in films. One of his most famous film roles was his first - in 1966's The Family Way, he played the briefly impotent husband of Hayley Mills. He went on to star in the anti-war The Virgin Soldiers (1970) and Percy (1973), in which he played the first recipient of a penis transplant.On British television, Bennett was seen in such dramas as Dennis Potter's Where the Buffalo Roams (1967) and Shelley (1985). Incidentally, Hywel Bennett finally got to play the male lead in Hamlet in a 1974 South African production. The year 2003 saw him appear on the British TV police series 'The Bill' as the prime suspect in the Sunhill serial rape/murders, a far cry from the Ophelia of his first ever London stage role.
Until John Rhys Davies came upon the scene (see the 'People' section of this website) Hywel Bennett was Ammanford's best known TV and screen actor. He was born in 1944 in Garnant in the Amman Valley but went to Henry Horton Grammar School in London, and trained at RADA. Hywel was born into a Welsh-speaking family but forgot the language when the family moved to London. When he appeared in the Welsh thriller Night of the Hunter, which was filmed in English first and then Welsh, he needed to pick his mother's brains for help in playing the Welsh language scenes. Whilst at drama college he joined the National Youth Theatre where he stayed for five years, playing many leading Shakespearian roles. This including his London stage debut as Ophelia in Hamlet at the opening of the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue – a female role! It's important to note, however, that the production was staged by the Youth Theatre, and that it was traditional for men to play female roles in Shakespeare's time, and that, at 15, Bennett's voice hadn't broken yet.Thereafter, he trafficked in 'angry young men' parts on stage, and as crafty characters posing as naifs in films. One of his most famous film roles was his first - in 1966's The Family Way, he played the briefly impotent husband of Hayley Mills. He went on to star in the anti-war The Virgin Soldiers (1970) and Percy (1973), in which he played the first recipient of a penis transplant.On British television, Bennett was seen in such dramas as Dennis Potter's Where the Buffalo Roams (1967) and Shelley (1985). Incidentally, Hywel Bennett finally got to play the male lead in Hamlet in a 1974 South African production. The year 2003 saw him appear on the British TV police series 'The Bill' as the prime suspect in the Sunhill serial rape/murders, a far cry from the Ophelia of his first ever London stage role.
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