Sue Jones-Davies
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Biography: Sue Jones-Davies is a Welsh actress, singer and politician. She has appeared on stage, screen and television. She met her former husband, the actor and writer Chris Langham, when they both studied at Bristol University. After graduation they moved to London but later separated, when she moved to Aberystwyth with her three sons. She became the Plaid Cymru Mayor of Aberystwyth in 2008, and now serves as town councillor there. The town of Aberystwyth had banned the showing of the film "The Life of Brian", in which she played Judith Iscariot, since its release in 1979.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wales, UK
Birthday: January 01, 1949
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Gender: Female
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Life of Brian
Overview: Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Radio On
Overview: A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.
Genres: Drama Mystery Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-30
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Solomon & Gaenor
Overview: A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating brother. The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When anti-Jewish riots break out, the two are forced to flee and become separated.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 1999-04-30
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Otherworld
Overview: Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabinogi (the Otherworld). They swim down and are transported back in time many centuries to the Mabinogi. There they encounter some problems with mediaeval life, and they have to deal with the conflict between fate personal choice and magic
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-26
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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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Delight
Overview: Echo goes looking for her one-time lover and comrade-in-arms, only to fall into a passionate relationship with his son. But sexual abandon triggers the unravelling of a trauma she has long buried for the sake of her children, which now threatens to tear their lives apart. Can eros bring a healing of trauma, or merely its repetition?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-21
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Monty Python in Aberystwyth
Overview: In a strange turn of events, Sue Jones-Davies became the mayor of a Welsh town where Monty Python's Life of Brian was still banned - the film where she played the female lead.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-12
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A Mind To Kill
Overview: A young girl is found brutally murdered in a small seaside town. The police are baffled; the town's inhabitants are panic-stricken. A serial killer is on the loose, and as yet more horrific murders take place, the search for clues becomes a desperate race against time. A tense psychological thriller with a chilling climax, this television movie introduced the charismatic, dedicated Welsh detective Noel Bain (Philip Madoc), a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinct which the sharpest criminal minds cannot match. Also starring Hywel Bennett as Doctor Lewis, the feature-length drama won a BAFTA Cymru award and initiated the highly acclaimed, darkly authentic crime series which ran between 1997 and 2004.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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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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The Theory of Flight
Overview: A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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Facelift
Overview: In a dystopian future, the population is divided between the elite "numbers" and the destitute "names" who escape the hardships of the their lives at a magic cabaret run by Zax. When Zax falls for a slumming-it "number" he builds a robot replica of her.
Genres: Science Fiction Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-21
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Morphine and Dolly Mixtures
Overview: A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a domineering, volatile alcoholic parent. It is based on an autobiographical account by Carol-Ann Courtney. At first, the girl has some diversion from her intense and frightening relationship with her father in the person of her maternal grandmother, but that outlet is soon closed when her father bans her from their home.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-10
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In the Pink
Overview: Tv Movie directed by Barbara Derkow
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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