Emlyn Williams was a bisexual Welsh writer, dramatist and actor. He was born George Emlyn Williams on the 26th of November, 1905, in Mostyn, Flintshire. His family were Welsh-speaking and working class, but Emlyn avoided working down the mines, thanks to social worker Sarah Grace Cooke, who opened a school in Holywell and recognised Emlyn’s abilities. He won a scholarship to Oxford, to study French and Italian, but in 1926 suffered a breakdown after a failed relationship with another student - Miss Cooke encourged him to write to recover. Emlyn performed with the Oxford University Dramatic Society, including in his own plays, and in 1930 performed in the West End. From 1932, he began to appear in films such as The Frightened Lady but found fame from his plays. ‘Night Must Fall’ was a psychological thriller written in 1935 and was made into a film in 1937 (and later remade starring Albert Finny in 1964). He wrote ‘He was Born Gay’ in 1937, then the semi-autobiogra...
