Mike Gwilym

Mike Gwilym

Movies for Mike Gwilym...

On the Black Hill
Title: On the Black Hill
Character: Benjamin Jones
Released: September 12, 1988
Type: Movie
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
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Theban Plays: Antigone
Title: Theban Plays: Antigone
Character: Chorus
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.
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Harem
Title: Harem
Character: Salim (as Michael Gwilym)
Released: February 9, 1986
Type: Movie
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
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Title: Peter the Great
Character: Shafirov
Released: February 2, 1986
Type: TV
Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.
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Title: A.D.
Character: Pallas
Released: March 31, 1985
Type: TV
A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.
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Love's Labour's Lost
Title: Love's Labour's Lost
Character: Berowne
Released: January 5, 1985
Type: Movie
When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they've forgotten that the daughter of the King of France is coming on a diplomatic visit. And the lady herself and her attendants play merry havoc with their intentions.
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Title: Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Character: Pericles
Released: December 8, 1984
Type: Movie
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.
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Title: Playing Shakespeare
Released: July 29, 1984
Type: TV
John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples.
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Title: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Character: Aufidius
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
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The Ghost Downstairs
Title: The Ghost Downstairs
Character: Mr. Fast
Released: December 26, 1982
Type: Movie
British TV-Drama
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Venom
Title: Venom
Character: Det. Constable Dan Spencer
Released: November 28, 1981
Type: Movie
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and the terrorists and several hostages are trapped in the boy's London home.
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Priest of Love
Title: Priest of Love
Character: John Middleton Murry
Released: October 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
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Hopscotch
Title: Hopscotch
Character: Alfie
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
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Title: The Racing Game
Character: Sid Halley
Released: November 21, 1979
Type: TV
Sid Halley, champion steeplechase jockey, suffers a devastating injury in a fall that ends his career. He sinks into self-pity until his aristocratic father-in-law bullies him into trying something new: becoming a private detective. A great literary gumshoe emerges as Halley regains his dignity, faces his vulnerability, and finds new meaning in life.
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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The Comedy of Errors
Title: The Comedy of Errors
Character: Antipholus of Ephesus
Released: October 17, 1978
Type: Movie
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together by circumstance.
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Title: How Green Was My Valley
Character: Owen Morgan
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.