Jack Howells
Thomas John Howells (July 1913 – 6 September 1990) was a Welsh film-maker, who is best remembered for his 1962 documentary Dylan Thomas (also known as A Tribute to Dylan Thomas), the only Welsh film to have won an Academy Award, for Documentary Short Subject in 1963.
Also recorded as Thomas John Howells
Jack Howells
- Born
- 1913 · Rhymney.
- Died
- 1990
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- screenwriter · director · producer
- Honours
- Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- Languages
- English
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Howells was born in Abertysswg near Rhymney and was a school teacher before switching to film-making, working within the Pathe Documentary Unit before going freelance. He wrote around 30 documentaries during the course of his career, and from the 1960s produced work for HTV, including Return To Rhymney (1972) and Penclawdd Wedding (1974). A frequent musical collaborator was Edward Williams. Although best known for his impressionistic and lyrical documentaries, he also wrote screenplays for around 30 non-TV feature films, including Front Page Story (1953) and Skid Kids (1953).
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• Cricket (1950) – scriptwriter • Elstree Story (1952) – writer • We live by the river (1955) - director
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- 1.1962 (35th), Documentary (Short Subject). Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
- 2.New York Times: Dylan Thomas. The New York Times. 2011.
- 3.Russell, Patrick, Taylor, James Piers (ed.). Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post War Britain (2019), Chapter 8, 'The World Still Sings: Jack Howells', by Dave Berry.
- 4.Davies. The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. 380. 2008. 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- 5.We live by the river. ACMI.
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