Acting
Dafydd Hywel
Born December 4, 1945 · Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Died March 23, 2023 · aged 77
Dafydd Hywel was a Welsh actor who has worked extensively in television roles and movies in both Welsh and English medium since 1975.
Known For
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children · 2016Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
★ 6.82016
MovieAdventureFantasy
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.
Undertaking Betty · 2002Undertaking Betty
★ 6.12002
MovieComedyRomance
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.
Becca · 1988Becca
★ 7.01988
MovieDramaHistory
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.
Harpur and Iles: Protection · 1997Harpur and Iles: Protection
★ 7.51997
Movie
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.
Rebecca's Daughters · 1992Rebecca's Daughters
★ 6.51992
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Arthur's Dyke · 2001Arthur's Dyke
★ 6.42001
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Afternoon of War · 1980Afternoon of War
★ 9.01980
MovieDrama
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.
The Angry Earth · 1989The Angry Earth
★ 4.71989
MovieDrama
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.
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