Just now Lucy OwenBBC Wales Getty Images John Lithgow said he visited Wales once as a drama student Actor John Lithgow described how his grandfather left Wales and found a place similar to home thousands of miles across the Atlantic. Orlo Price and other family members settled in a US town called Welsh Hills, Ohio, and started fruit farming in the 19th century. Lithgow, 80, visited Wales around 55 years ago and said it is "waiting for me to go seek out my roots".