Alec Guinness

I’m terrified of cruelty, and I avoid it: It leads to no good, even if it is couched in a certain style, a jest. We have so little time, so little wise use of it, so I tend to keep silent and think and walk carefully around others.”

– Alec Guinness / Interview with James Grissom / Photo, from 1951, by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Dai Bando is a character in the 1941 film How Green Was My Valley, played by Rhys Williams, a Welsh actor who also served as a technical advisor and Welsh language consultant for the film.

Dai Bando is also the pen name of
Michael Stevenson, publisher of THE HOBBLEDEHOY.