Dafydd Hywel

{{Short description|Welsh actor (1945–2023)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1945|12|04}}

| birth_place = Garnant, Wales

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2023|03|23|1945|12|04}}

| death_place = Garnant, Wales

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Dafydd Hywel (4 December 1945 – 23 March 2023){{cite web | url=https://funeral-notices.co.uk/wales-gwynedd/death-notices/notice/evans/5115006?photo=start | title=Click here to view the tribute page for Dafydd Hywel EVANS }}{{Cite news |date=2023-03-23 |title=Dafydd Hywel: Tributes to Stella actor who dies aged 77 |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-65057779 |access-date=2023-03-25}} was a Welsh actor who worked extensively in television roles and films in both Welsh and English medium since 1969. He is best known for playing Glen Brennig in the Sky1 TV comedy drama series Stella.{{Cite web |last=Lewis |first=Ffion |date=2023-03-23 |title=Tributes to Keeping Faith and Stella actor Dafydd Hywel who has died aged 77 |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/tributes-keeping-faith-stella-actor-26546203 |access-date=2023-03-25 |website=WalesOnline |language=en}}[http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Veteran-s-blast-TV-chiefs/story-20103598-detail/story.html Dafydd Hywel autobiography]

Dafydd also narrated Video 125s 'The Cambrian Coast' Railway Drivers Eye View Video in 1988.

On 23 March 2023, it was announced that Hywel had died at the age of 77.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-23 |title="Colled aruthrol" ar ôl yr actor Dafydd Hywel, sydd wedi marw'n 77 oed |url=https://golwg.360.cymru/newyddion/2117629-actor-dafydd-hywel-wedi-marw |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=Golwg360 |language=cy}}