Alun Lewis (actor)

Alun Lewis (born Alun Lewis Bennett in 1949) is a British actor, best known for his roles in ITV's Emmerdale as postmaster Vic Windsor, and Darryl Stubbs in BBC1 sitcom Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1994.

Alun Lewis
Born
Alun Bennett

1949 (age 70–71)
Wandsworth, London, England[1]
Years active1970s–2001
Spouse(s)Annette Ekblom
ChildrenAmelia Warner

Together with Emmerdale co-stars Steve Halliwell and Billy Hartman, he was a member of UK 1990s country rock trio The Woolpackers who had a UK hit single "Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Roll" in November 1996.

Personal life

He was born in London, the son of Welsh parents Sarah Gwen (née Lewis) and Gorden Bennett.[2] He appeared with the National Youth Theatre in Zigger Zagger at the Strand Theatre in the West End in March 1968. After training as an actor at RADA,[3] in 1979 he appeared in the humorous film Le Pétomane.

He is the brother of the late actor Hywel Bennett, who has played many roles in British film and television. His daughter, by his former wife Annette Ekblom, is actress Amelia Warner.

Lewis is an accomplished rock & roll blues guitar player.

Television
gollark: Thermodynamics seems kind of irrelevant to this.
gollark: We have a bunch of instincts and desires about socialisation because ??? evolution in a way we don't particularly (in general) for PRNG output or something.
gollark: Not all complex things are also emotionally salient and... interesting? That isn't really right.
gollark: That seems very poetic but also probably wrong.
gollark: Motor control stuff probably spends lots of effort on modelling friction and gravity and kinematics and muscle output and whatever, but I don't believe that's plugged into "general intelligence" functions like social interaction is.

References
  1. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  2. Hywel Bennett Biography (1944-)
  3. "RADA Class of 1970". RADA.



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