How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley (1941)★ 8.1/10

Approved · US · 118 min · October 28, 1941

  • Drama
  • Family

Directed by: John Ford

Written by: Philip Dunne, Richard Llewellyn

A moving portrait narrated by the youngest son of a late 19th century Welsh family driven from abundance to poverty by the mining crisis.

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Cast & crew

Walter PidgeonMr. GruffyddMaureen O'HaraAngharad MorganAnna LeeBronwynDonald CrispMr. Gwilym MorganRoddy McDowallHuw MorganJohn LoderIanto MorganSara AllgoodMrs. Beth MorganBarry FitzgeraldCyfarthaPatric KnowlesIvor MorganWelsh SingersSingersMorton LowryMr. JonasArthur ShieldsMr. ParryAnn E. ToddCeinwenFrederick WorlockDr. RichardsRichard FraserDavy MorganEvan S. EvansGwilym Morgan Jr.James MonksOwen MorganRhys WilliamsDai BandoLionel PapeEvansEthel GriffiesMrs. NicholasMarten LamontIestyn EvansVictor AdamsonVillager (uncredited)C.E. AndersonVillager (uncredited)Gertrude AstorBit Part (uncredited)George AtkinsonVillager (uncredited)Stewart BairMinor Role (uncredited)Frank Baker (uncredited)Ted BillingsMiner (uncredited)Robert BradfordBit Part (uncredited)Nora BushVillager (uncredited)Cyril ClareMinor Role (uncredited)Leonard ClareMinor Role (uncredited)Ruth CliffordVillage Woman (uncredited)Jane CrowleyVillager (uncredited)Jack CurtisVillager (uncredited)Phillip DareBit Part (uncredited)Edward DaviesBit Part (uncredited)Helen DaviesMinor Role (uncredited)Minta DurfeeBit Part (uncredited)Herbert EvansPostman (uncredited)Mary FieldEve (uncredited)Pauline GaronBit Part (uncredited)Mary GordonGossiper (uncredited)Gibson GowlandDeacon (uncredited)Jack GriffithsMinor Role (uncredited)Bobbie HaleVIllager (uncredited)Ben HallBit Part (uncredited)Louis Jean HeydtMiner (uncredited)Gwilym IsaacMinor Role (uncredited)Ellis JamesMinor Role (uncredited)Michael JeffersVillager (uncredited)Alice A. JonesMinor Role (uncredited)Arvonia JonesMinor Role (uncredited)David JonesMinor Role (uncredited)Emlyn JonesMinor Role (uncredited)Howell A. JonesMinor Role (uncredited)Joseph T. JonesMinor Role (uncredited)Tiny JonesMrs. Tossel (uncredited)Jack KennyVillager (uncredited)Al KundeVillager (uncredited)Will LewisMinor Role (uncredited)Joan LottSchool Student (uncredited)Eve MarchMeillyn Lewis (uncredited)Mae MarshMiner's Wife (uncredited)Merrill McCormickVillager (uncredited)Anne McCulloughMinor Role (uncredited)Harry McKimChild (uncredited)Lydia McKimChild (uncredited)Peggy McKimChild (uncredited)Gomer MorganMinor Role (uncredited)Jack OwenMinor Role (uncredited)Jack PennickMine Superintendent (uncredited)Irving PichelHuw Morgan as an Adult (uncredited) (voice)Arthur PritchardBit Part (uncredited)David J. ReedMinor Role (uncredited)Caradac ReesMinor Role (uncredited)Lewis ReesMinor Role (uncredited)Clifford SevernMervyn (uncredited)Leslie SketchleyVillager (uncredited)Marilyn SpinnerSchool Student (uncredited)Harry TenbrookVillager (uncredited)Hugh ThomasMinor Role (uncredited)John C. ThomasMinor Role (uncredited)Owen ThomasMinor Role (uncredited)Dorothy VernonVillager (uncredited)Eleanore VogelVillager (uncredited)Allan WatsonBit Part (uncredited)Jan WilliamsBit Part (uncredited)Reese WilliamsMinor Role (uncredited)Robert B. WilliamsMinor Role (uncredited)Tudor WilliamsSinger (uncredited)