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Since this area of the forum is currently empty, I am adding a topic about his appearance. It is probably of interest to a few on here.
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8/23/2007, 7:47 pm
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Re: Looks
If you have already seen the gallery, you have seen that he was handsome his entire life, even in old age. He was also able to vary his looks. Looking through his pictures reminds me of a multitude of men that I thought handsome or at least memorable. Those men do not look alike, yet he was able to look like any of them. Being able to vary your looks is great for acting, but its his expressions that are priceless.
Although almost everyone in black and white looks like they have brown eyes, I have read that his were blue. Blue eyes go very nicely with dark hair. It's my favorite combination. Relatives describing other relatives have said that the combination is common among Welsh, and that they are known for their stormy eyes.
Almost everyone who knows me knows that I like very dark hair, especially contrasted against light skin. Many of them don't know that I love the way old men look when they have a full head of white hair. That is why Emlyn's hair is what I like most about his looks.
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8/23/2007, 8:22 pm
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he was without a doubt handsome, both young and old. Personally i feel that a lot of his attraction had to do with the personality behind his features. From what little of him i have seen, i find his demeanor, his manner, his facial expressions the most mesmerizing. The fact that he was so apparently versatile with those qualities is very admirable.
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From what little of him i have seen, i find his demeanor, his manner, his facial expressions the most mesmerizing.
That is exactly why I think his expressions are priceless.
There are always many similar looking options for a casting director, but few people have the ability to speak without words. A smile is never just a smile. That is probably part of why he kept being cast as sweet but evil characters. He definately had the looks and talent to be a leading actor.
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8/24/2007, 2:42 pm
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htrm wrote:
Although almost everyone in black and white looks like they have brown eyes, I have read that his were blue. Blue eyes go very nicely with dark hair. It's my favorite combination. Relatives describing other relatives have said that the combination is common among Welsh, and that they are known for their stormy eyes.
Almost everyone who knows me knows that I like very dark hair, especially contrasted against light skin. Many of them don't know that I love the way old men look when they have a full head of white hair. That is why Emlyn's hair is what I like most about his looks.
I have to agree with you both. He certainly was very handsome throughout his life, and I love that black-hair/blue-eye combination too. (Mmm, think I might have to find me a nice Welshman!)
But I do think he looked good with his white hair as well, which I read changed color practically overnight (like his father's)--look at the difference between Another Man's Poison and Ivanhoe, made only about a year apart. I think he looks great in both movies. (The only film I didn't really like his appearance in was Hatter's Castle--I didn't think the greased-down look was very flattering on him, but then he was supposed to be a devious, oily villain, so I guess that suited him! I didn't much like the beard on him in Eye of the Devil either! But it was cool to seem him teamed up with Deborah Kerr again, all those years later!)
I have to say, another feature I really like is his mouth--I think it was one of his most expressive features, don't you? (And of course, the words that came out of it as well; I love his voice.)
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"It's all rather stylish and pretty and rather worrying" --Timothy Spall on his costume in Sweeney Todd
"He must have been fun." --Emlyn Williams (liner notes from "Emlyn Williams as Dylan Thomas in 'A Boy Growing Up'")
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One important thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is his height. In many of his films he almost looks short, even at times like when he's walking by himself through fields in The Last Days of Dolwyn. Then he'll be standing next to a man that doesn't look short, and he'll be the same height or possibly taller. Some of it, I'm sure, is the same effect as when you see a "short" man playing professional basketball. Clothes also have a great effect on that.
I've read that he was 5'9, which is probably the lower end of average, and is a good 5 inches more than me so I couldn't complain.
My boyfriend also has that effect, though he claims to be 5'11. It is especially evident when he puts on suit jackets, which Emlyn wore in plenty of movies.
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I know what you mean; he looked a lot smaller than he really was--I think a lot of that had to do with his slender build (which I also find rather attractive--like you, I'm plenty shorter than him, so I'm not hung up on big burly guys), plus he was working with taller-than-average actors much of the time. As a measuring stick, Robert Newton was 6 feet tall, and Leslie Banks looks to be about the same. I don't know about Laughton, but he looks quite tall to me as well. Anyway, I'm intrigued by the idea that Harry wields so much power for relative his size.
That said, however, I read in a recent biography about his theatre years that he *gasp* lied about his height--on his passport, no less, the cheeky devil! He was actually 5'8"--which still isn't exactly short. (As actor Timothy Spall put it in a recent interview, "I’m not a *beep* midget, I’m 5ft 8½ in. I know it’s not exactly tall. But you can join the police force ... in Munchkin Land." Nyuk nyuk nyuk. And to put things into further perspective, reading from Dylan Thomas on one of his audio recordings, Emlyn says, "Perhaps the best way for me to introduce myself ... is by filling out one of those devilish passport questionnaires about myself. Name: Dylan Marlais Thomas. ... Description: Snub nose; thick blubber lips; moppy, mouse-brown hair ... Above medium height. Above medium height for Wales? I mean 5 foot 6 and a half." So that would make him tall by Welsh standards, wouldn't it? ;-) Oh, and I read elsewhere that Tim Spall was 5'7", so could he be exaggerating for professional purposes as well? That seems to be a show-biz tradition. I mean, if the camera can add 10 *pounds* to you ... Oh gosh, imagine how thin Emlyn really was in Jamaica Inn! Gah ...) Anyway, I read a statistic once that 5'9" is exactly average height for a man. So any way you measure him, Emlyn Williams was not short. I prefer to think of him as "compact." ;-)
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"He must have been fun." --Emlyn Williams (liner notes from "Emlyn Williams as Dylan Thomas in 'A Boy Growing Up'")
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FYI, hope you don't mind, but I've moved this topic, feeling that it's more appropriate to what I intended by "The Magnet" ... his looks being one of those extra "beyond-talent" aspects that attract certain of us! 
BTW, speaking of his hair color, I just got hold of Three Husbands, which came out in 1950 or '51, and I noticed his hair seemed an almost unnatural shade of jet black in it ... while in Another Man's Poison, which came out around the same time, it's gone almost completely white. (And in Ivanhoe, it looks a more natural graying dark brown ... and very curly!) I have pictures from another movie right around that same period where his hair looks dyed. So that prompted me to look through some photos of him on stage to figure out just when it turned white (practically overnight, according to one biographer), and I notice a couple of roles around 1951-2 where it looks like his white roots are growing out (possibly after being colored). I also found it ironic that just a few years before, when his hair was still dark, he played several stage roles where they had to grey! (I think his natural hair color suited him best at whatever age he was.)
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"He must have been fun." --Emlyn Williams (liner notes from "Emlyn Williams as Dylan Thomas in 'A Boy Growing Up'")
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Re: Looks
The Theatre World Monograph book about him titled "Emlyn Williams", by Richard Findlater, is a great source for pictures. You can really see how versatile his appearance is.
He's beautiful as Yvet. It was fun showing that to my boyfriend without warning him first.
It also shows how youthful he stayed as he aged (through the 1950's). It includes dates with the pictures so that you can see how his hair was gray one year and dark the next, then gray again.
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htrm wrote:
The Theatre World Monograph book about him titled "Emlyn Williams", by Richard Findlater, is a great source for pictures. You can really see how versatile his appearance is. ...
It also shows how youthful he stayed as he aged (through the 1950's). It includes dates with the pictures so that you can see how his hair was gray one year and dark the next, then gray again.
Yes, that's the book I used to follow the progression of his hair color!  I figured his stage work is more reliable as to dates than his film work.
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He's beautiful as Yvet. It was fun showing that to my boyfriend without warning him first.
Oh? Did you fool him? (hee)
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"It's all rather stylish and pretty and rather worrying" --Timothy Spall on his costume in Sweeney Todd
"He must have been fun." --Emlyn Williams (liner notes from "Emlyn Williams as Dylan Thomas in 'A Boy Growing Up'")
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