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Kelvin Guy

Burry Port,Wales

Producer

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Title/Occupation:  Producer 

Services Provided:  Film/Video Editing 

Gender: Male

Race: Caucasian/White

Citizenship: UK

Languages Spoken: ENGLISH

Biography: 

My name is Kelvin Guy and I live in a small seaside town on the West Wales coast! The town is about twenty miles west of Swansea,where the poet Dylan Thomas was born! Also futher east is where the towns of Neath and Portalbot are, where they seem to breed great film stars ! Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton, Ray Milland and Michael Sheen!!
For the last three years I've been working on a documentary about another Welsh film star. Who also made it big in Hollywood, during the silent era. He was Wales' very first!

He began acting at a very young age, firstly here in Wales, then later at 17 years of age he was allowed to go to London to pursue his passion for acting. After a time, he joined the Welsh Players and travelled on tour with them to America.
He appeared in many productions such as Little Miss Llewellyn, Change and a play by J.M.Barrie called The New Word, and later went onto star in a film based on another book written by Barrie entitled Sentimental Tommy, which was made in 1921. Even though he had already appeared in many films before, he always regarded Sentimental Tommy as his favorite and most successful. In total he made forty five films spanning 1918 to 1931, and was also the Welsh dialect coach, on The Corn Is Green made in 1945 starring Bette Davis (another welsh connection).
Ceil.B.DeMille called him “a young idealist”.
Fulton Ousler describes him as” the charm boy to end all charm boys”
His stage name was Gareth Hughes, and at the height of his popularity he was earning as much as $2000 a week. He was under contract to the big film studios of the time including Fox and MGM, who are still big players in the film world today.

In 1929 like many others he lost his fortune in the Wall Street crash and was left penny less, but he carried on making films until 1931 when he appeared in Scarce Heads.
He then decided to leave the world of film and return to theatre, which he had always been his first love. His last performance ran for 18 weeks in 1938 at the Hollywood Playhouse and University of Michigan where he starred as Shylock in the Merchant of Venice.
In the early 1940’s he decided it was time to leave this life style behind, having led a full and exciting but also lavish and selfish life he now wanted to change and instead give something back to others. Adopting the name of Brother David he became a missionary to the Paiute Indians on the Pyramid Lake Reservation of Nevada. He spent almost 14 years (1944 to 1958) with his “children”, as he liked to call them and is still loved and remembered as Bro to this day.