Gareth Hughes

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Gareth Hughes (William John Hughes) (23 August 1894 – 1 October 1965) was a stage and silent screen actor. Usually cast as a callow, sensitive hero in Hollywood silent films, Hughes got his start on stage during childhood and continued to play youthful leads on Broadway.

Hughes was born in Llanelli, Wales.

[edit] Film career

His earlier screen work was with Clara Kimball Young in Eyes of Youth, Marguerite Clark in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. He was teamed with Viola Dana in The Chorus Girl’s Romance, and was with Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, in Sentimental Tommy, the picture which attracted immediate attention to his ability. Over the next twelve years Gareth appeared in thirty-eight motion pictures.

[edit] Later years

Following his retirement from films in the early 1930s, Hughes became a missionary and worked among the Paiute in Nevada, and took the name Brother David.

Later Hughes moved into the Motion Picture Country Home, in Woodland Hills. There he had his own cottage. He baptised silent film actress Clara Kimball Young prior to her death. There he died at the age of seventy, and his cremains were buried in a Masonic Cemetery at Reno.