Mike Gwilym

Mike Gwilym is a Welsh actor who began performing at Oxford University with the Oxford University Dramatic Society. He later worked with the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre and was an associate actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His stage debut came in 1969 at Sheffield's Playhouse Theatre, as Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part 1. In 1974 he joined the RSC, making his London debut as Vlass in Summerfolk at the Aldwych Theatre. He appeared in many RSC productions, including King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, Troilus and Cressida, and Love's Labour's Lost. On television he first appeared in a 1975 BBC adaptation of How Green Was My Valley and later became best known as jockey-turned-detective Sid Halley in The Racing Game, based on Dick Francis's Odds Against. His films include Hopscotch (1980) and Venom (1981). In the BBC Television Shakespeare he played Aufidius in Coriolanus, Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost, and the title part in Pericles, Prince of Tyre.