Biographical Information and Career Details
Clifford Williams (1926–2005) Theatre Director and Actor. Born Cardiff, United Kingdom, son of George F. Williams and Florence (Gapper). From 1945 to 1948 Served in British Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC). Married (1) Joanna Douglas 1956, no children, marriage dissolved 1959. Married (2) Josiane Peset, 1962. Children: Anouk and Tara. Fellow of Trinity College of Music (London) and the Welsh College of Music and Drama (on Board of Governors from 1980). Founder, 1994: (Director and Playwright) Mime Theatre London. 1950-1953: Artistic Director, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, 1956 Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, 1957 Arts Theatre, London. 1963 to 1980, Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company, U.K.. From 1963: Artistic Directorships at: National Theatre, U.K., also the national theatres of: Spain, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Finland, Bulgaria, France, Denmark, Sweden, USSR, Canada, Japan Germany. In the United States, his Broadway productions included: The Comedy of Errors, Soldiers, Sleuth, Emperor Henry IVth, As You Like It, A Pack of Lies, Aren’t We All? Breaking the Code (TV) and Man and Superman. His opera productions include: The Flying Dutchman, Savitri, Dido and Aeneas, Bellman’s Opera. Musical Productions include (in London): Our Man Creighton, Mardi Gras, Oh! Calcutta and Carte Blanche. Author of children’s plays: The Sleeping Princess, The Goose Girl and The Secret Kingdom. Translator of Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekov. Chairman of the British Theatre Association 1978-1990. For the Royal Shakespeare Company: Directed 31 productions including the outstandingly successful (also set designer) Comedy of Errors, (with Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Timothy West, Donald Burton, Elizabeth Spriggs, Janet Suzman and Susan Engel); The Merchant of Venice (Janet Suzman, Eric Porter and William Squire) and The Jew of Malta (Eric Porter and Tony Church).
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