Alan Leith, an English actor, is widely known as the husband of late actress Gwyneth Powell.
Alan Leith has starred in a couple of films and television series including The BBC Television Shakespeare (1979), The Sweeney (1974), Prime Suspect: The Scent of Darkness (1995), Peak Practice (1998), Another Life (2001), Waking the Dead (2001), Doctors (2003), The Bill (1986-2005), Traitors (2019), and many more.
Alan Leith and Gwyneth Powell tied the knot in 1971.
Following their marriage, Alan’s wife Gwyneth landed her first television role in the 1971 London Weekend Television drama series The Guardians – “which was lucky because I’d just got married”, she later revealed.
“We’d bought a house but we had no way of paying the first month’s mortgage, or indeed buying a wedding ring,” she told the Grange Hill podcast Sausage On A Fork.
“I wore my mother’s wedding ring to our wedding… And then I got The Guardians and we were secure.”
Gwyneth subsequently starred in numerous films such as A Touch of Frost, Holby City, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Father Brown, Man Down, Arsenic and Old Lace, etc.
Actor Alan Leith and actress Gwyneth Powell remained married until she died in 2022.
Gwyneth Powell died on September 8, 2022, at age 76 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK following complications from surgery.