Glyn Owen

Glyn Owen
Born	Griffith Owen (1928-03-06)6 March 1928 Bolton, Lancashire, England
Died	10 September 2004(2004-09-10) (aged 76)[1] Gwynedd, Wales
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–2000
Spouse(s)	Patricia Mort ​ ​ (m. 1965; died 1999)​ Carrie Clifton ​ (m. 2001)​ [2]
Children	Lloyd Owen (Richard Marcus Lloyd Owen) 1966 Cathy Owen (Cathryn Melanie Owen) 1968

Glyn Griffith Owen (6 March 1928 – 10 September 2004) was a British stage, television and film actor, best known to British TV viewers for three roles: that of Dr Patrick O'Meara in the long-running ITV hospital drama Emergency – Ward 10, and that of Edward Hammond in the 1972-76 BBC Transport drama series 'The Brothers' 92 episodes and that of Jack Rolfe, the headstrong director of the Mermaid Boatyard in the mid-1980s BBC series Howards' Way.^[2][3]

Biography[]

Born in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of a Welsh railway guard, Glyn Owen left school aged 14 and worked in a telegraph office. He completed his national service in 1946-48 during which time he acted in the War Office's amateur dramatic company. For the next five years he was a police officer in London's Paddington district, as a traffic officer he unofficially escorted Richard Attenborough under blue lights to a BBC recording, he continued in amateur dramatics and received acting training at the Actors' Studio in St John's Wood.^[2] where agent, Lew Grade signed him as a client.

By 1955 he was performing with the George Mitchell Singers in Blackpool, with the impresario Lew Grade as his agent. His television debut was in 1956 in The Trollenberg Terror.^[4] His other television roles included Coronation Street, The Brothers, Doomwatch, The Adventures of William Tell, The Rat Catchers, Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small, Take the High Road, The Capone Investment, Ennal's Point, Oil Strike North, Survivors, and Blake's 7.^[5] In "Colony Three", a 1964 episode of Danger Man, he played Randall, John Drake's assigned roommate at a Soviet spy training facility. He appeared in a 1978 episode of The Professionals, "Rogue", in which he played a corrupt CI5 agent.^[6] His short career as a policeman stood him in good stead to play the role of Wally, an alcoholic ex-policeman, in an episode of the fourth series of The Sweeney called "Money, Money, Money".^[7] In 2003, he appeared with his former Howards' Way co-star Ivor Danvers in the Doctor Who tie-in audio play Nekromanteia.^[8] He appeared in Man at the Top in 1972 in the episode How to make a fortune.^[9]

His film appearances included feature roles in Inn for Trouble (1960), Attack on the Iron Coast (1968), One More Time (1970), the crime thriller The Capone Investment (1974) and the 1975 Children's Film Foundation movie .^[4]

He appeared regularly on the West End stage and in fringe theatre. He also appeared at Edinburgh with Tom Courtenay in Hamlet, and made numerous appearances at Hampstead between the late 1960s and the 1980s.^[2] He appeared in musicals and pantomime, including The Four Musketeers with Harry Secombe at Drury Lane, Dick Whittington with Ken Dodd at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, and Roll on Four O'Clock for Colin Welland at Wythenshawe (which transferred to the Palace, Shaftesbury Avenue).^[2] He toured North America with the RSC, finishing at the Palace Theatre, New York City, in London Assurance.^[10] He joined the National Theatre Company to appear as the father in Equus; and won an award for his portrayal of the father in Spring and Port Wine for Middle Ground Theatre Company.^{[citation needed][11][12]}

Personal life[]

Owen was married twice:

• his first marriage was to the actress Patricia Mort (1933–1999). Married 1965, later dissolved¹ (¹Telegraph 2004)
  They had two children, both actors:
  • Lloyd (Richard Marcus Lloyd) 1966
  • Cathy (Cathryn Melanie) 1968
• his second marriage was to Carrie Clifton in 2001. He is survived by his second wife, ex-dancer Carrie Clifton Owen, and his two children.^[10]

Filmography[]

References[]

External links[]

• Glyn Owen at IMDb
• Glyn Owen at the Internet Broadway Database