Robert Blythe

Acting

Robert Blythe

Died November 20, 2018

Robert Blythe (1947-2018) was a Welsh actor and voice over artist. He was brought up in Tan-y-groes St in Port Talbot. He was perhaps best known the role of aging agoraphobic thief 'Fagin' in the Welsh situation comedy High Hopes which ran for six series from 2002 to 2008.

Known For

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a MountainThe Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain · 1995
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
★ 6.41995
MovieDramaComedy
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.
Love Is Thicker Than WaterLove Is Thicker Than Water · 2017
Love Is Thicker Than Water
★ 5.92017
MovieRomanceComedy
Vida and Arthur come from vastly different backgrounds. Sensitive and touching, sometimes quirky and tragic, always uncompromisingly truthful, a fresh look how conflicting family ties challenge love in a modern day Romeo and Juliet tale.
The Theory of FlightThe Theory of Flight · 1999
The Theory of Flight
★ 6.31999
MovieDramaComedy
Richard is assigned public service after crashing his homemade aircraft, leading him to meet Jane, a young woman dying of motor neuron disease. After they strike up a friendship, Jane asks Richard to help fulfill her deepest wish: to lose her virginity before her death.
An Ordinary ManAn Ordinary Man · 2017
An Ordinary Man
★ 6.22017
MovieActionDrama
A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his maid.
Mr. and Mrs. EdgehillMr. and Mrs. Edgehill · 1985
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
★ 7.31985
MovieDrama
Eustace and Dorrie Edgehill have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme, no one is likely to give Eustace a job now. Or are they?
A Poet in New YorkA Poet in New York · 2014
A Poet in New York
★ 5.12014
MovieDramaTV Movie
In 1953 Dylan Thomas went to New York for the last time, his marriage a wreck, his drinking out of control. He was on his way to meet Stravinsky and to wallow in New York acclaim - but what was he escaping? How did such a triumph become a requiem? The last days of a great poet.
Giro CityGiro City · 1982
Giro City
★ 5.61982
MovieThrillerDrama
Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.
Whoops ApocalypseWhoops Apocalypse · 1986
Whoops Apocalypse
★ 5.61986
MovieComedy
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.

Filmography

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The Snow SpiderThe Snow Spider · 1988
The Snow Spider
★ 9.51988
MovieFantasy
On his ninth birthday, young Gwyn (Osian Roberts), who lives on a remote hill farm in Wales, receives five strange gifts from his grandmother (Siân Phillips): a piece of seaweed, a yellow scarf, a tin whistle, a metal brooch and a small broken horse. Gwyn offers the brooch to the wind and receives back a tiny silvery spider - Arianwen, the snow spider - confirming that, as his grandmother had already guessed, he has inherited magical powers from his Celtic ancestor Gwydyon, a powerful magician whose exploits are described in the fourth book ("Math Son of Mathonwy") of the Mabinogion. With the help of the snow spider, Gwyn embarks on adventures involving other worlds of snow and silver, as he attempts to solve the five-year-old mystery of his sister Beth's disappearance in a snow storm.

Ivor Griffiths