Career
His stage debut was as 'Prince Hal' in Henry IV, Part 1 at the Playhouse Theatre, Sheffield, UK in 1969.
Gwilym joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974; his debut in London was with that company in that year as 'Vlass' in Summerfolk, at the Aldwych Theatre. He starred in many of their productions during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including The Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, and Love's Labour's Lost. He made his television debut in the BBC's 1975 adaptation of How Green Was My Valley. His most high-profile role was as Sid Halley in The Racing Game, a six-part Yorkshire Television series based on Dick Francis's 1965 novel Odds Against. He subsequently returned to playing classical roles on stage and screen. In the BBC Television Shakespeare series, he starred in Coriolanus (as Aufidius), in Love's Labour's Lost (as Berowne), and Pericles, Prince of Tyre in the title role.
Gwilym retired from the professional stage to the South of Spain (province of Malaga), where his parents had a summer home in the 1990s. From the year 2001 he has shared a home with his partner in Sotogrande in the province of Cadiz.
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