Trivia

When he was just 14 his father and mother, sister and grandfather, were killed by a stray German bomb that hit his home village.

Virile Welsh singer who worked as a coal miner as a teen before singing. Appeared in such productions as "South Pacific", "The King and I", "Finian's Rainbow" and "Damn Yankees" in the 1950s. Made his Broadway debut in a short-lived musical version of "How Green Way My Valley" entitled "A Time for Singing" in 1966.

He used to carry a wind-up gramophone up mountains near his home village to listen to records of Enrico Caruso.

A one-time member of the Pontrhydyfen Operatic Society, he was eventually hired by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a chorister in March 1950, staying until August 1951 when he married fellow D'Oyly Carte chorister Jean Beazleigh. He later co-headlined in a TV series, the musical program "Land of Song", from 1958-1965 with Sian Phillips. He retired to Spain in the late 1960s.