William Ingram (writer/actor)
William Ingram | |
|---|---|
| Born | William Herbert Ingram 1930 Resolven, Glenmorgan, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Died | 29 January 2013 Ogmore Valley, Bridgend, Wales |
| Occupation | Dramatist and actor |
| Language | English |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
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William Herbert Ingram (1930 – 29 January 2013) was a Welsh writer and actor who had success in television and radio. He performed in his own plays for radio.
Childhood and education[edit]
Born in Resolven, Wales, Ingram's family moved to Ogmore Vale when he was six and he attended Ogmore Grammar School.[1]
Dramatic works and performances[edit]
Ingram was a writer for the 1980s British television series, The District Nurse.[1] He also played the ghost of Dylan Thomas in the televised version of A Solitary Mister. [1]
In the six-part TV series Target Luna (1960), Ingram played the part of Flt. Lt. Williams. He appeared in the film The Blue Peter (1955), in Danger Man (1966) and in a number of ITV television plays. Ingram wrote 12 episodes for in the BBC television series The District Nurse, produced by BBC Wales and shown on BBC One. He also played the part of Band Chairman in an episode.
It was in BBC Radio drama that Ingram made hundreds of appearances, including roles in many of the plays are dramatisations that he wrote for radio. A radio version of Emlyn Williams’s Night Must Fall, in which he took the leading role of Danny opposite Dame Sybil Thorndike, is held in the British Library’s Sound Arcive[2].
Among Ingram’s dramatic contributions to radio are his scripts for the 1970s radio series, The Price of Fear[3], which starred the Hollywood actor Vincent Price. The series, which used Price’s association with horror to bring a chill to radio, began on the BBC World Service in 1973 and continued BBC Radio 4. Of the 22 episodes, twelve were written by Ingram.
Ingram adapted Iris Murdoch's novel The Sandcastle for television in 1963.[4] Bourne described Ingram's work as having, "skirted marvelously well the traps and quicksands. The plot was tightened but not falsified; the characters were blunter, as they must be in television,... but they were not fundamentally altered... First rate performance by Charles Carson... thundering good story... compelling play."ref name="BourneReview"/>
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Haines, Chris (7 February 2013). "Tributes to Actor and Playwrignt". Wales Online. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ↑ Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams, William Ingram as Danny, Dame Sybil Thorndike as Mrs Branson, BBC Radio 4, 1959,British Library Sound Archive
- ↑ 'The Definitive The Price of Fear Radio Log with Vincent Price', Digital Deli Too.
- ↑ Bourne, William (10 April 1963). "Iris Murdosh's The Sandcastle on TV (film review)". The Guardian.
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