Glyn Owen

Glyn Griffith Owen (6 March 1928 – 10 September 2004) was an Anglo-Welsh film, stage and television actor, known to British television viewers for three roles: that of Dr Patrick O'Meara in Emergency Ward 10 (ITV, 1957–61), Edward Hammond in The Brothers (BBC, 1972), and Jack Rolfe in Howards' Way (BBC, 1985–90).

Biography Born in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of a Welsh railway guard (and an English mother, making him Anglo-Welsh), Glyn Owen left school aged 14 and worked in a telegraph office. He completed his national service in 1946–48 during which time he acted in the War Office's amateur dramatic company. For the next five years he was a police officer in London's Paddington district, and as a traffic officer he unofficially escorted actor and director Richard Attenborough under blue lights to a BBC recording. He continued in amateur dramatics and received acting training at the Actors' Studio in St John's Wood. In "Colony Three", a 1964 episode of Danger Man, he played Randall, John Drake's assigned roommate at a Soviet spy‐training facility. He appeared in a 1978 episode of The Professionals, "Rogue", in which he played a corrupt CI5 agent.

His short career as a policeman stood him in good stead to play the role of Wally, an alcoholic ex-policeman, in an episode of the fourth series of The Sweeney called "Money, Money, Money". In 2003, he appeared with his former Howards' Way co-star Ivor Danvers in the Doctor Who tie-in audio play Nekromanteia. He appeared in Man at the Top in 1972 in the episode "How to Make a Fortune".

Owen's film appearances include feature roles in Inn for Trouble (1960), Attack on the Iron Coast (1968), One More Time (1970), the crime thriller The Capone Investment (1974) and the 1975 Children's Film Foundation movie The Firefighters.

He appeared regularly on the West End stage and in fringe theatre. He also appeared at Edinburgh with Tom Courtenay in Hamlet, and made numerous appearances at Hampstead between the late 1960s and the 1980s.

Personal life Owen was married twice. His first marriage, in 1965 and later dissolved, was to the actress Patricia Mort (1933–1999), with whom he had two children, both actors Lloyd Owen (born 1966) and Cathy Owen (born 1968).

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1957 The Assassin Dr. Michael Clayton A Santa for Christmas Unknown 1959 Life in Emergency Ward 10 Paddy O'Meara 1960 Inn for Trouble Lord Osbourne 1968 Attack on the Iron Coast Forrester 1970 One More Time Dennis 1975 The Firefighters Mr. Grant 2000 Pandaemonium Fisherman (final film role)