William Herbert Ingram (1930 – 29 January 2013) was a Welsh writer and actor who had success in television and radio.
[1] Singled out early as one of two 'tip-top' Welsh actors - with Mervyn Johns - for his role as the Dutch student Karl in the 1955 'new British colour film', The Blue Peter, in a review in the Western Mail the two actors were described as 'among the best things in the film'[2]...'Young Mr Ingram rapidly established himself as the best of our young performers, bringing an altogether delightful charm to his many scenes.'
The following year would see Ingram join the 1956 company at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London where he took a role that would prove key to his development as a writer.
[5] Ingram would continue to work as an actor, but a major change was signalled when his first play, The Rain it Raineth, was presented at the Hampstead Theatre Club in London, in 1959.
Radio would offer him room to write stories, dramas, comedies, horror and adoptions, beginning in 1966 and continuing into the 2000s.
It was at BBC Radio drama that Ingram found his home, performing, reading and writing for credits in the hundred, including roles in many of the plays and dramatisations that he had written.
A radio version of Emlyn Williams's Night Must Fall, in which he took the leading role of Danny opposite Dame Sybil Thorndike, is held in the British Library's Sound Archive.
The plot was tightened but not falsified; the characters were blunter, as they must be in television,... but they were not fundamentally altered... First rate performance by Charles Carson... thundering good story... compelling play.