Richard Harrington

Richard Harrington

Born: March 12, 1975
in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Richard Harrington (born 12 March 1975 in Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil) is a Welsh actor of stage and screen. He stars as DCI Richard Matthias in the acclaimed Welsh drama "Hinterland"/"Y Gwyll".

Movies for Richard Harrington...

Title: Steeltown Murders
Character: Colin Dark
Released: May 15, 2023
Type: TV
The hunt to catch the killer of three young women in the Port Talbot area in 1973 and the remarkable story of how - in the first case of its kind - the mystery was solved almost 30 years later using pioneering DNA evidence. Contrasting the policing methods of the 1970s with the forensic breakthroughs of the early 2000s, the series portrays a town dealing with the repercussions of an unsolved case three decades on, and asks if justice can ever truly be found.
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Fisherman's Friends: One and All
Title: Fisherman's Friends: One and All
Character: Morgan Jenkins
Released: August 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Following the unexpected success of the band’s debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues”, we re-join them almost a year later, struggling with the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame, second album syndrome, and performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.
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Title: The Chelsea Detective
Character: Rory Fisk
Released: February 7, 2022
Type: TV
Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a local bookshop owner, Max is a far cry from the affluent elite whose crimes he'll help solve along with D.C. Priya Shamsie.
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The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
Title: The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
Character: Albert Lewis
Released: November 7, 2021
Type: Movie
A journey through C.S. Lewis’ early life and his dramatic conversion story about his inner conflict.
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Title: Fflam
Character: Beds
Released: February 10, 2021
Type: TV
A contemporary story of passion and grief that raises the question of whether rekindling an old flame will result in fingers being burnt.
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Title: Gangs of London
Character: Mal
Released: April 23, 2020
Type: TV
When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.
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Bitter Sky
Title: Bitter Sky
Character: Roy
Released: December 2, 2019
Type: Movie
In the Welsh wilderness a young girl must break away from the coercive control of her adopted father, reluctantly befriending a lad from the local scrapyard.
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Creepy Pasta Salad
Title: Creepy Pasta Salad
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: Movie
Anxious citizens of Wales survive Halloween, compulsory fancy dress, the endless drudgery of being put on hold and the apocalypse (sort of).
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Title: On the Edge
Character: DI Nolan
Released: August 14, 2018
Type: TV
A drama anthology that serves up a raw slice of real life in Modern Britain.
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Gwen
Title: Gwen
Character: Edward Morris
Released: July 12, 2018
Type: Movie
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
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Last Summer
Title: Last Summer
Character: Dai Hop
Released: June 7, 2018
Type: Movie
During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
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Title: Requiem
Character: Aron Morgan
Released: February 2, 2018
Type: TV
In 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small Welsh village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of rising cello star Matilda Gray commits suicide, without apparent reason. Among her possessions, Matilda discovers tantalising evidence, linking her mother to the Welsh girl's disappearance all those years ago.
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Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War
Title: Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War
Character: Himself
Released: April 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Richard Harrington, star of Hinterland and Poldark, sets out to trace the journey of his grandfather, who went to Spain 80 years ago to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. In this journey of self-discovery Harrington travels from Wales, through Paris and across the Pyrenees into Spain, uncovering the reasons for his own lack of political motivation and discovering a story that kick-starts his own political awakening.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Fred Phillips
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Royal Wives at War
Title: Royal Wives at War
Character: Narrator
Released: January 8, 2016
Type: Movie
The Queen Mother and Wallis Simpson look back at the dramatic events of 1936, which led to King Edward Vlll giving up the throne for the woman he loved.
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Just Jim
Title: Just Jim
Character: Headmaster
Released: September 25, 2015
Type: Movie
In a small Welsh town where people talk to themselves we meet Jim, a lonely teenager who is given the chance to increase his popularity when a cool American kid moves in next door. Written and directed by Craig Roberts, who also plays the lead role.
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Under Milk Wood
Title: Under Milk Wood
Character: Neighbour
Released: June 1, 2014
Type: Movie
An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with National Theatre Wales, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth. The plot reveals the innermost thoughts of the residents of the small, Welsh fishing village Llareggub as it delves into the dreams of various townspeople including blind sailor Captain Cat, who is haunted by visions of drowned shipmates, Mog Edwards and Myfanwy Price, who dream of each other, and Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard, who dreams of her former husbands.
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Title: Hinterland
Character: DCI Tom Mathias
Released: October 29, 2013
Type: TV
Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how you look.
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Title: Endeavour
Character: Dr. Dai Ferman
Released: April 14, 2013
Type: TV
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Benedict Northam
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Elfie Hopkins
Title: Elfie Hopkins
Character: Timothy Jenkins
Released: April 20, 2012
Type: Movie
An aspiring teen detective stumbles into her first real case, when investigating the mysterious new family in her neighborhood.
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Title: Stella
Released: January 6, 2012
Type: TV
Ruth Jones stars as a 40-something mum juggling the ups and downs of family life amid the chaos of her eccentric friends, relatives and children's fathers.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Bryn Williams
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Little Munchkin
Title: Little Munchkin
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: August 28, 2011
Type: Movie
A well-to-do couple goes to an orphanage to adopt a child, but will they find one who fits their persnickety lifestyle?
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Title: Land Girls
Character: Adam Blackfield
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
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Title: Missing
Released: March 16, 2009
Type: TV
DS Mary Jane Croft runs the under-resourced Missing Persons Unit.
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Hope Eternal
Title: Hope Eternal
Character: Evan
Released: September 15, 2008
Type: Movie
After the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo makes a pilgrimage to Wales to sprinkle his ashes on the turf of the Millennium Stadium.
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Title: Lark Rise to Candleford
Character: Gabriel Cochrane
Released: January 13, 2008
Type: TV
Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.
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Title: Sold
Released: November 15, 2007
Type: TV
Sold is a British comedy drama television series produced by Touchpaper Television for ITV. The series stars Kris Marshall and Bryan Dick as Matt and Danny, employees of Colubrines Estate Agents. It is written by Steve Coombes and was broadcast between 15 November and 20 December 2007.
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The Contractor
Title: The Contractor
Character: Terry Winchell
Released: July 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Former CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
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Title: Holby Blue
Character: Luke French
Released: May 8, 2007
Type: TV
The police force at Holby South is tasked with the toughest job yet. Not only are they fighting the usual crime with drug offenders and gang members, but today they are faced with the threat of terrorism on their own soil. A Spin off from Holby City and Casualty.
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Title: Five Days
Character: Daf Parry
Released: January 23, 2007
Type: TV
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
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The All Together
Title: The All Together
Character: Jerry Davies
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Daddy's Girl
Title: Daddy's Girl
Character: Stephen
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Nina, a troubled teen, is fixed on an uninterrupted feast of destruction when she’s forced to confront her immortality and twisted blood lust. Trapped between light and dark, psychosis and reality, the living and the dead, she’ll stop at nothing to satiate her CRAVINGS. Every addiction has a price, and usually it’s the cost of a life. Her price will be life too…but never her own.
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Mathilde
Title: Mathilde
Character: Babyface
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A young girl attempts to kill a UN peacekeeper after the war in Croatia, leading to an investigation into the circumstances of their first meeting.
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Title: Bleak House
Character: Allan Woodcourt
Released: October 27, 2005
Type: TV
The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond imagination if it can ever be brought to a conclusion. As Tulkinghorn digs deeper into Lady Dedlock's past, he unearths a secret that will change their lives forever, and which is almost as astounding as the final outcome of the Jarndyce case.
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Fatigue - Don´t play with the fire
Title: Fatigue - Don´t play with the fire
Character: Hurley
Released: August 29, 2005
Type: Movie
Welcome to the worlds most dangerous job.
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Title: Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
Character: Thomas Percy
Released: March 14, 2004
Type: TV
Mini series depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.
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Title: Hustle
Character: Sam Richards
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: TV
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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Rehab
Title: Rehab
Character: Powell
Released: March 26, 2003
Type: Movie
TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Will North
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Score
Title: Score
Character: Neil
Released: June 5, 2001
Type: Movie
Comedy about a Sunday League football team who win the Lottery.
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Care
Title: Care
Character: Tony Collins
Released: October 8, 2000
Type: Movie
A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.
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Deadly Instincts
Title: Deadly Instincts
Character: Jack
Released: August 9, 1997
Type: Movie
It's an invasion of the most personal and terrifying kind. When a meteorite crash lands onto a Boston college campus and an alien beast is released, only one man understands its mission to mate. From the depths of an all girls college, the grotesque monster stalks his prey in a cat-and-mouse chase until the final conflict where only one species can survive.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Leo Fincher
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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House of America
Title: House of America
Character: Cat
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
"House of America" is a 1997 film directed by Marc Evans. The film, set in a depressed Welsh mining town, centres on a dysfunctional family unit of brothers Boyo and Sid, their sister Gwenny and their controlling mother. The film tackles issues such as Welsh identity, its need for indigenous heroes and the nation's perceived inferiority complex.
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The Proposition
Title: The Proposition
Character: Evan
Released: December 18, 1996
Type: Movie
In early 19th century Wales, Catherine Morgan, a widow with two daughters, must endure the bumpy road to a distant market in order to sell her cattle to save her farm and family.
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Title: Oliver's Travels
Released: June 11, 1995
Type: TV
Oliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan Bates, Sinéad Cusack, Bill Paterson, and Miles Anderson. It first aired in the UK in 1995. Bates plays the titular Oliver, a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolves to make use of his new wealth of free time by going to visit his favourite crossword compiler, 'Aristotle', with whom he has corresponded but whom he has never met. When he arrives, however, he finds Aristotle's house has been ransacked and its occupant has departed for parts unknown, and he sets out to discover why.
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Dafydd
Title: Dafydd
Character: Dafydd
Released: January 17, 1995
Type: Movie
A young gay hustler from South Wales, Dafydd is working in Amsterdam where he meets David, a music lecturer also from Wales. Two kindred spirits in a foreign land. Originally aired as episode 2, series 3, of the television program "Wales Playhouse".
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Title: A Mind to Kill
Released: November 27, 1994
Type: TV
A Mind to Kill is a police detective series set in Wales, UK. It was developed from a 1991 pilot which starred Philip Madoc as DCI Bain, and Hywel Bennett. The series ran from 1994 to 2004 and first aired as Yr Heliwr on S4C, the Welsh language TV channel, before being broadcast on the UK Network channel, Channel 5. The series was filmed in English and in Welsh, with each scene being shot first in one language and then in the other. It has since been dubbed into more than a dozen languages and shown all over the world. The 21 episodes have been divided into 3 series which are now available on DVD. The pilot episode is also available on DVD.
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Leaving Lenin
Title: Leaving Lenin
Character: Charlie
Released: June 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Seven teenagers and three teachers from a Welsh school visit Russia in a bid to rediscover themselves. On the overnight sleeper service to St Petersburg the students get separated from the teachers, which allows the students ample scope for rediscovery.
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Title: Civvies
Released: February 20, 1991
Type: TV
Former soldiers in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment struggle to come to terms with civilian life after leaving the army.
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Nineteen96
Title: Nineteen96
Character: Kit Davis
Released: September 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers a complex web of deceit and corruption
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Havoc
Title: Havoc
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.