Dafydd Hywel

Dafydd Hywel

Born: December 4, 1945
Died: March 23, 2023
in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Dafydd Hywel was a Welsh actor who has worked extensively in television roles and movies in both Welsh and English medium since 1975.

Movies for Dafydd Hywel...

Title: The Crown
Character: Shopkeeper
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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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Title: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Character: Isle - Farmer
Released: September 27, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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The Miners' Strike
Title: The Miners' Strike
Released: April 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Teaming up with director Karl Francis, Dafydd Hywel speaks to some of the coal miners and their wives who played a huge part in the Miners' Strike of 1984-5, and their descendants, who have inherited a Wales without coal mines.
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Title: The Indian Doctor
Character: Ceri Joseph
Released: November 15, 2010
Type: TV
The Indian Doctor is a British television drama set in the summer of 1963. Produced by Rondo Media and Avatar Productions, it was first broadcast on BBC One in 2010. The most recent series began on 27 February 2012 and concluded on 2 March. It is a period comedy drama starring Sanjeev Bhaskar as an Indian doctor who finds work in a South Wales mining village.
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Undertaking Betty
Title: Undertaking Betty
Character: Gravedigger
Released: December 4, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Arthur's Dyke
Title: Arthur's Dyke
Character: Detective
Released: October 19, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Border Cafe
Character: Eryl
Released: July 18, 2000
Type: TV
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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Harpur and Iles: Protection
Title: Harpur and Iles: Protection
Character: Det. Supt. Hubert Scott
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: 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.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: George Drew
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
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.
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Rebecca's Daughters
Title: Rebecca's Daughters
Character: Rhodri Hughes
Released: March 5, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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The Winter Stallion
Title: The Winter Stallion
Character: Howard
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Dai Davies (Eric Wyn) is a Welshman running a cash-strapped farm in modern Wales and raising his orphaned granddaughter Gwen (Sian MacLean) with the help of her godmother Nerys (Lynette Davies). When he dies unexpectedly, he leaves Gwen's guardianship to his estranged son Alan (Daniel J. Travanti), who has returned to Wales accompanied by his stepson Cliff Dean (Patrick Loomer). Alan's return pits himself against land developer Howard (Dafydd Hywel) and Cliff against Gwen's would-be suitor Gwilyn (Richard Lynch). As Alan and Gwen try to connect in the background of readying the farm's prize stallion Mabon for a race that could save the farm, Howard resorts to dirty tricks to try and force through the farm's sale.
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Come Home Charlie and Face Them
Title: Come Home Charlie and Face Them
Character: Gwyn-the-Boots
Released: November 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Adapting R.F. Delderfield's classic story of love, lust, crime and betrayal, this three-part mini-series centres around a young bank clerk whose yearning to escape the mundanity of 1930s small-town life is answered all too readily when he falls for an exotic beauty with dangerous intentions.
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The Angry Earth
Title: The Angry Earth
Character: Evan
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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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The Cambrian Coast: Machynlleth to Barmouth
Title: The Cambrian Coast: Machynlleth to Barmouth
Character: Narrator
Released: October 31, 1988
Type: Movie
Driver's Eye View: Machynlleth to Barmouth Narrated by Dafydd Hywel This driver's eye view manages to convey the sleepy backwater that the Cambrian Coast line is nowadays. Our class 150 "Sprinter" makes an unscheduled stop at Dovey Junction to pick up a couple of passengers deposited on this out-of-the-way station with no road access. Out onto the coast we encounter the most notorious section on the whole line - the narrowest of ledges cut into the sheer rockface of the Friog cliffs and the site of two disasters. Finally, there is the half-mile long timber trestle bridge at Barmouth, still standing in splendid isolation across the Mawddach estuary. Two other railways are featured en route, the Talyllyn narrow gauge railway at Tywyn and the Fairbourne and Barmouth Steam railway. Filmed in 1988.
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Out Of Love
Title: Out Of Love
Character: Thomas Price
Released: August 10, 1988
Type: Movie
The shy, hard-working farmer Thomas Price, whose life is dominated by his father Emrys, is strongly attracted to the independent Englishwoman Ruth and they become drawn into a passionate love affair.
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Coming Up Roses
Title: Coming Up Roses
Character: Trevor
Released: February 20, 1987
Type: Movie
An award-winning comedy set in a depressed town in the South Wales Valleys. When the local cinema is closed down, the former projectionist, plagued by money problems, devises an ingenious plan to make money.
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Boy Soldier
Title: Boy Soldier
Character: Sergeant Crane
Released: January 30, 1987
Type: Movie
A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."
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The Happy Alcoholic
Title: The Happy Alcoholic
Released: November 19, 1984
Type: Movie
A stark drama about one man's struggle with alcoholism and the impact this has on his family, friends, and work. His gradual disintegration is a reflection of the decaying mining community around him.
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Title: The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Character: Gwyn Williams
Released: March 4, 1981
Type: Movie
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
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Afternoon of War
Title: Afternoon of War
Released: March 19, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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Changing Gear
Title: Changing Gear
Character: Stan
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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Blood on the Stars
Title: Blood on the Stars
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Shadrach Smith and his school choir do their best to ensure that the local celebrities hired to appear at a concert in a village hall don't make it to the stage and slaughter anyone they believe is getting in their way. Released in 1974/1975.