Dafydd Hywel

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 ChildrenMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children · 2016
Miss 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 BettyUndertaking Betty · 2002
Undertaking 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.
BeccaBecca · 1988
Becca
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: ProtectionHarpur and Iles: Protection · 1997
Harpur 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 DaughtersRebecca's Daughters · 1992
Rebecca'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 DykeArthur's Dyke · 2001
Arthur'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 WarAfternoon of War · 1980
Afternoon 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 EarthThe Angry Earth · 1989
The 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.

Filmography

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Peak PracticePeak Practice · 1993
Peak Practice
6.51993
SeriesDrama
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.

George Drew

Border CafeBorder Cafe · 2000
Border Cafe
2000
SeriesComedyDrama
Comedy drama series from Preston Front writer Tim Firth. Set in the fictional town of Hale Point on the borders of England and Wales, home to a cross-section of amazing, colourful characters who, under normal circumstances, would never have met. Rock star Charlotte Smith quits at the height of her fame and buys the American diner on the outskirts of her home town so she can settle down with her builder boyfriend David Doyle. He invites his daft elder brother Kidder to become the chef while the nervous Ronnie gives up her life as "Charlotte" in a copycat band to become waitress. The Border Cafe becomes a meeting place for all sorts of curious characters and a centre of intrigue. But as the cafe takes off, the whole notion of whose life depends on whose starts to shift with dramatic consequences

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