Robert Blythe

Robert Blythe


Died: November 20, 2018
in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
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.

Movies for Robert Blythe...

An Ordinary Man
Title: An Ordinary Man
Character: Grocer
Released: October 9, 2017
Type: Movie
A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his maid.
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Love Is Thicker Than Water
Title: Love Is Thicker Than Water
Character: George
Released: August 31, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Leviathan Ages
Title: Leviathan Ages
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Bound in ancient celestial ballet, nine dead Kings arise to claim a fallen Emperor.
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A Poet in New York
Title: A Poet in New York
Character: Dylan's Dad
Released: April 30, 2014
Type: 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.
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Belly
Title: Belly
Character: Whale
Released: January 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgment. In doing so he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.
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Title: Vera
Character: Bob Tate
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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The Haunting of #24
Title: The Haunting of #24
Character: Martin Stone
Released: September 11, 2007
Type: Movie
After breaking-up with his girlfriend Veronica, the unemployed John Hare rents a cheap room in an old boarding house owned by the nice Martin Stone and the landlord tells him that the house is crowded by discreet persons. John does not see any other tenant but a bizarre old woman in the house and during the nights, he sees weird things on his television and hears violent knocks on his door. When John calls Veronica, she notes that he is near a breakdown after many sleepless nights and decides to stay with him. However, Veronica vanishes during the night, leading John to an ultimate decision.
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Title: The Royal
Character: Eric Darnby
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: John Fontain
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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The Theory of Flight
Title: The Theory of Flight
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.
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Darklands
Title: Darklands
Character: McCullen (as Bob Blythe)
Released: November 16, 1996
Type: Movie
A reporter investigates ritual profanations and finds himself involved with a Druidic cult.
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Title: The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Character: Ivor
Released: May 12, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: (All Quiet on the) Preston Front
Character: Deke
Released: January 4, 1994
Type: TV
All Quiet on the Preston Front (or the shortened Preston Front as it became known for series two and three) was a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army infantry platoon. It was created by Tim Firth and ran from 1994 to 1997.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Godfrey
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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The Old Devils
Title: The Old Devils
Character: Bearded Thug
Released: March 16, 1992
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.
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Rebecca's Daughters
Title: Rebecca's Daughters
Character: Sergeant Bridges
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 Chestnut Soldier
Title: The Chestnut Soldier
Character: Ivor Griffiths
Released: November 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Gwyn can feel danger coming in the wind. Somehow he knows the warnings have to do with the broken toy horse that holds the evil spirit of a prince who lived long ago. When Gwyn discovers that the prince's dark soul has escaped from the horse and is seeking revenge Gwyn, Emlyn, and Nia have to figure out how to save the mysterious soldier who claims to be Nia's distant cousin. With the help of the Snow Spider, can they recapture the prince's soul without hurting the Chestnut soldier?
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Emlyn's Moon
Title: Emlyn's Moon
Character: Ivor Griffiths
Released: September 6, 1990
Type: Movie
Young magician Gywn and his friend Nia have been warned to stay away from Emlyn Llewelyn, the strange boy who claims his mother lives on the moon. And yet, a mysterious magic continues to draw them to him. But why? It's up to Gwyn and Nia to solve the mystery, with the help of Arianwen, the Snow Spider.
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Nineteen96
Title: Nineteen96
Character: Chief Insp. Price
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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The Snow Spider
Title: The Snow Spider
Character: Ivor Griffiths
Released: November 26, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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The Love Child
Title: The Love Child
Character: Elvis
Released: September 22, 1988
Type: Movie
When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more than a normal, responsible life, working in an office and taking care of the grandmother who raised him. But his grandmother has other ideas, and Dillon finds himself lured into an alternate lifestyle of art, pleasure and rebellion.
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Whoops Apocalypse
Title: Whoops Apocalypse
Character: Guard with Egg in Mouth
Released: May 6, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Character: Charlie Howell
Released: December 15, 1985
Type: Movie
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?
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Title: Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: Frank
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: TV
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
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Owain Glyndŵr - Prince of Wales
Title: Owain Glyndŵr - Prince of Wales
Character: Nicholas
Released: March 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A biopic of the last Prince of Wales.
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Experience Preferred... But Not Essential
Title: Experience Preferred... But Not Essential
Character: Ivan
Released: December 22, 1982
Type: Movie
A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales, where she finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.
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Giro City
Title: Giro City
Character: Welsh Policeman
Released: November 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Title: The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Character: Bryn Roberts
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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Title: Minder
Character: Cllr. Griffiths
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Title: Minder
Character: Coliver
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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The Shining Pyramid
Title: The Shining Pyramid
Character: Van Driver
Released: August 22, 1979
Type: Movie
When stones begin miraculously arranging themselves on the edge of one young man's private land, he and his friend begin trying to decipher them in any way possible. When they realize that it might be a dark portent, they become desperate to achieve their goal before it is too late.
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Title: How Green Was My Valley
Character: Glyn
Released: December 29, 1975
Type: TV
Life is harsh but uncomplicated and happy for the Morgan family in their coal mining village in the Rhondda Valleys. But as the 20th century approaches, the younger generation is restless.