Background
He was born in Cardiff, Wales and died in London, England. Clifford Williams was born in Cardiff, United Kingdom, son of George F. Williams and Florence (Gapper).
He was born in Cardiff, Wales and died in London, England. Clifford Williams was born in Cardiff, United Kingdom, son of George F. Williams and Florence (Gapper).
Fellow, Trinity College Music, London, 1960, Welsh College Music and Drama, 1994. Founder, director, playwright Mime Theatre Company, London, 1950-1953. Director Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, 1956, Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, 1957, Arts Theatre, London, 1957-1960, National Theatre of the Deaf England, London, 1979-1980.
Associate director Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Upon Avon and London, since 1963.
Director national theatres Great Britain, Yugoslavia, Spain, Mexico, Finland, Bulgaria, and in France, Denmark, Sweden, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Canada, Japan, Germany, United States, New Zealand, Australia. Broadway productions include The Comedy of Errors, Sleuth, Soldiers, Emperor Henry IV, As You Like lieutenant, Pack of Lies, Aren"t We All, Breaking The Code, The Father.
(film) Manitoba and Superman. Opera productions include Flying Dutchman, Savitri, Dido and Aeneas, Venus and Adonis, Bellman"s Opera.
Musical productions include: Our Manitoba Crighton, Mardi Gras, Oh] Calcutta], Carte Blanche (all in London).
Creator revues MattersMatrimonial, The Keys of the Kingdom, Saints and Sinners, and Adaptor Daphne du Maurier"s Rebecca.
From 1945 to 1948 he served in the British Army Ordnance Corps (Royal Army Ordnance Corps). Married (1) Joanna Douglas 1956, no children, marriage dissolved 1959. Married (2) Josiane Peset, 1962.
Children: Anouk and Tara.
Fellow of Trinity College of Music (London) and the Welsh College of Music and Drama (on Board of Governors from 1980). 1950-1953: Artistic Director, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, 1956 Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, 1957 Arts Theatre, London.
1963-1980, Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company, United Kingdom From 1963: Artistic Directorships at: National Theatre, United Kingdom, also the national theatres of: Spain, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Finland, Bulgaria, France, Denmark, Sweden, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Canada, Japan Germany. In the United States, his Broadway productions included: The Comedy of Errors, Soldiers, Sleuth, Emperor Henry IVth, As You Like lieutenant, A Pack of Lies, Aren’t We All? Breaking the Code (television) and Manitoba and Superman.
His opera productions include: The Flying Dutchman, Savitri, Dido and Aeneas, Bellman’s Opera.
Musical productions include (in London): Our Manitoba Creighton, Mardi Gras, Oh! Calcutta and Carte Blanche. He was the author of the children's plays The Sleeping Princess, The Goose Girl and The Secret Kingdom, and he translated Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov. He was chairman of the British Theatre Association 1978-1990.
Foreign the Royal Shakespeare Company: Directed 31 productions including the outstandingly successful (also set designer) Comedy of Errors (with Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Timothy West, Donald Burton, Elizabeth Spriggs, Janet Suzman and Susan Engel).
The Merchant of Venice (Janet Suzman, Eric Porter and William Squire) and The Jew of Malta (Eric Porter and Tony Church).
Served to lieutenant Ordnance Corps. British Army.
Married Josiane Eugenie Peset, November 10, 1962. Married Joanna Douglas, 1956 (divorced 1959). Children: Anouk, Tara.