Name Jack Howells Role Film-maker | Movies Dylan Thomas | |
Died September 6, 1990, Penarth, United Kingdom Awards Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject | ||
Thomas John "Jack" Howells (July 1913 - 6 September 1990) was a Welsh film-maker, who is best remembered for his documentary Dylan Thomas, the only Welsh film to have won an Academy Award, for Documentary Short Subject in 1963.
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Career
Howells was born in Abertysswg near Rhymney and was a school teacher before switching to film-making. Although best known for his impressionistic and lyrical documentaries, he also wrote screenplays for feature films, including Front Page Story (1953) and 'Skid Kids (1953).
Selected filmography
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