Dafydd Hywel
Biography: Dafydd Hywel was a Welsh actor who has worked extensively in television roles and movies in both Welsh and English medium since 1975.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 04, 1945
Deathday: March 23, 2023
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Known For
Undertaking Betty
2002-12-04
Undertaking Betty
Overview: A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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Rebecca's Daughters
1992-03-05
Rebecca's Daughters
Overview: Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-05
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Changing Gear
1979-01-01
Changing Gear
Overview: After Keith's death in a rally accident, Steve, his co-driver, decides to try to fix the car in a bid to undo what happened. While working on the car in Keith's widow Anwen's garage, they both get close to trying to come to terms with their grief. However, after repairing the car, Steve's attempt to win the race turns into a disaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Coming Up Roses
1987-02-20
Coming Up Roses
Overview: An award-winning comedy set in a depressed town in the South Wales Valleys. When the local cinema is closed down, the former projectionist, plagued by money problems, devises an ingenious plan to make money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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Blood on the Stars
1975-01-01
Blood on the Stars
Overview: Shadrach Smith and his school choir do their best to ensure that the local celebrities hired to appear at a concert in a village hall don't make it to the stage and slaughter anyone they believe is getting in their way. Released in 1974/1975.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Out Of Love
1988-08-10
Out Of Love
Overview: The shy, hard-working farmer Thomas Price, whose life is dominated by his father Emrys, is strongly attracted to the independent Englishwoman Ruth and they become drawn into a passionate love affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-10
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Becca
1989-12-25
Becca
Overview: Wales in the 19th Century. Becca is married to Dai, who is transported to the penal colony of Diemen's Land (Tasmania) for rebellion. His brother Gwylim, who is a minister, travels after him by signing on as a ship's chaplain on a ship. He and Becca pretend to be husband and wife so she can come along. The pastor and his sister-in-law start a relationship.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016-09-27
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Overview: A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-27
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The Winter Stallion
1992-01-01
The Winter Stallion
Overview: Dai Davies (Eric Wyn) is a Welshman running a cash-strapped farm in modern Wales and raising his orphaned granddaughter Gwen (Sian MacLean) with the help of her godmother Nerys (Lynette Davies). When he dies unexpectedly, he leaves Gwen's guardianship to his estranged son Alan (Daniel J. Travanti), who has returned to Wales accompanied by his stepson Cliff Dean (Patrick Loomer). Alan's return pits himself against land developer Howard (Dafydd Hywel) and Cliff against Gwen's would-be suitor Gwilyn (Richard Lynch). As Alan and Gwen try to connect in the background of readying the farm's prize stallion Mabon for a race that could save the farm, Howard resorts to dirty tricks to try and force through the farm's sale.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
1981-03-04
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Overview: The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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Arthur's Dyke
2001-10-19
Arthur's Dyke
Overview: Twenty years ago, three men set out on the longest walk of their lives. They vowed to repeat the walk, but this time they are joined by a forty year old wife and mother who is in the midst of a mid-life crisis.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-19
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Boy Soldier
1987-01-30
Boy Soldier
Overview: A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Come Home Charlie and Face Them
1990-11-25
Come Home Charlie and Face Them
Overview: Adapting R.F. Delderfield's classic story of love, lust, crime and betrayal, this three-part mini-series centres around a young bank clerk whose yearning to escape the mundanity of 1930s small-town life is answered all too readily when he falls for an exotic beauty with dangerous intentions.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-25
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The Cambrian Coast: Machynlleth to Barmouth
1988-10-31
The Cambrian Coast: Machynlleth to Barmouth
Overview: Driver's Eye View: Machynlleth to Barmouth Narrated by Dafydd Hywel This driver's eye view manages to convey the sleepy backwater that the Cambrian Coast line is nowadays. Our class 150 "Sprinter" makes an unscheduled stop at Dovey Junction to pick up a couple of passengers deposited on this out-of-the-way station with no road access. Out onto the coast we encounter the most notorious section on the whole line - the narrowest of ledges cut into the sheer rockface of the Friog cliffs and the site of two disasters. Finally, there is the half-mile long timber trestle bridge at Barmouth, still standing in splendid isolation across the Mawddach estuary. Two other railways are featured en route, the Talyllyn narrow gauge railway at Tywyn and the Fairbourne and Barmouth Steam railway. Filmed in 1988.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-31
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Harpur and Iles: Protection
1997-01-01
Harpur and Iles: Protection
Overview: Underworld boss Bernie 'Tenderness' Mellick is certainly paying a heavy price for maiming Ivor Wright in a firebombing. For Wright's men have now kidnapped his eleven-year-old son Graham. Senior Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his brilliant, amoral superior ACC Desmond Iles must rescue the boy from the kidnappers before Tenderness takes his revenge in this adaptation of Bill James' novel Protection.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Afternoon of War
1980-03-19
Afternoon of War
Overview: Adapted from the short story "The Mouse and the Woman" by Dylan Thomas, it is a story set in the secluded valleys of Wales during the 1914-18 war. The story of a man who is as handy with his fists as with his poetic fantasy. His masculinity fascinates Gilda, the wife of the owner of the mine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-19
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The Happy Alcoholic
1984-11-19
The Happy Alcoholic
Overview: A stark drama about one man's struggle with alcoholism and the impact this has on his family, friends, and work. His gradual disintegration is a reflection of the decaying mining community around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 1984-11-19
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The Miners' Strike
2015-04-01
The Miners' Strike
Overview: Teaming up with director Karl Francis, Dafydd Hywel speaks to some of the coal miners and their wives who played a huge part in the Miners' Strike of 1984-5, and their descendants, who have inherited a Wales without coal mines.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 2015-04-01
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The Angry Earth
1989-01-01
The Angry Earth
Overview: About the oppression of the Welsh coal miners during the 19th century and early 20th century as seen through the the eyes of Gwen, a 110 year old woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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