Brian Hibbard

Brian Hibbard

Born: November 26, 1946
Died: June 17, 2012
in Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Brian Hibbard was a Welsh actor and singer, best remembered as the lead vocalist in the original 'Flying Pickets'.

Following the group's success in the early 1980s, Hibbard went on to pursue a career as a television actor, appearing in 'Coronation Street' as garage mechanic Doug Murray, in 'Emmerdale' as Bobby-John Downes, and as Johnny Mac in the Welsh-language soap 'Pobol y Cwm'. He was in the 1997 film 'Twin Town' as the self-styled "Karaoke King" Dai Rees. He also appeared in the drama serial 'Making Out'; in the 'Doctor Who'' story Delta and the Bannermen'; in comedy in 'The Armando Ianucci Shows'; and in the film 'Rancid Aluminium'.

Movies for Brian Hibbard...

Svengali
Title: Svengali
Character: Dixie's Dad
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London…
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Monster
Title: Monster
Character: Pageant Compere
Released: December 6, 2011
Type: Movie
A comical short film about a family raising a spoilt daughter.
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Good Arrows
Title: Good Arrows
Character: Alwyn
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: Movie
A darts player slides into depression after an heart attack spooks him so much he loses his skill.
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Flick
Title: Flick
Character: Archie Mason
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and wierd sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s(a local boy) who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death.
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Caught in the Act
Title: Caught in the Act
Character: Donkey
Released: January 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A corrupt parish council embezzle EU money to pay for their decadent lifestyles instead of funding the cultural development of their town. They soon find themselves having to perform the unimaginable task of producing one of the great Shakespearean plays for the most important festival in the EU cultural calendar.
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The Baker
Title: The Baker
Character: Bob
Released: February 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfil a contract for the first time, Milo escapes the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Hiding out in a remote rural village, the locals mistake him for the new baker.
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Little White Lies
Title: Little White Lies
Character: Tony
Released: January 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Directed by Caradog W. James and based on the play 'Flesh and Blood' by Helen Griffin, 'Little White Lies' deals with the paranoia of racism, the politics of hate and how these things threaten to tear one family apart. The father is an armchair politician who never leaves the house, the daughter has a new boyfriend that she won't bring home to meet her parents and the son has just become an active member of the BNP. The only person in the family trying to hold it all together is the mother, who just wants everyone to get along.
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Revolver
Title: Revolver
Character: Eddie C
Released: September 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner and, in fact, has taken so much money over the years that he's the sole client of his accountant elder brother, Billy. Invited to a private game, Jake is in fear of losing his life.
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Title: Help! I'm a Teenage Outlaw
Released: October 22, 2004
Type: TV
Help! I'm A Teenage Outlaw is a British television programme filmed in the Czech Republic and first aired on CITV. The show follows three hapless outlaws during the English Civil War, who are trying to bring justice back to the land.
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The Many Lives of Albert Walker
Title: The Many Lives of Albert Walker
Character: Geoff
Released: March 24, 2002
Type: Movie
After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.
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Mr In-Between
Title: Mr In-Between
Character: Gordon
Released: September 10, 2001
Type: Movie
A terrifying love triangle. An original twist on a story of divided loyalties, the perils of love and ultimate death. A haunting tale set in a London at times beautiful and ugly, but always captivating. A story that plays with the shadows and light of an underworld occupied by the fascinating and terrible.
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Title: Tales from Pleasure Beach
Character: Alan
Released: August 2, 2001
Type: TV
A darkly humorous three-part drama series focusing on trios of people working at a Welsh seaside town's funfair. Each episode is self-contained.
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Rancid Aluminium
Title: Rancid Aluminium
Character: Giovanni
Released: January 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is bust and the only way out is to do business with the Russian mafia. His life and heart are on the line when he leave to restore the fortunes of the family firm.
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Title: The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
Character: George Seagrim
Released: November 9, 1997
Type: TV
Adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding chronicling the life, loves and adventures of the charming Tom.
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Twin Town
Title: Twin Town
Character: Dai Rees
Released: April 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Jeremy and Julian Lewis, the "Lewis Twins", are two unruly brothers who terrorise the city of Swansea from the caravan park where they live with their family. When their father, Fatty, is injured while working on a roof for local kingpin Bryn Cartwright, they try in vain to claim compensation. Thus begins a campaign of terror, which local policemen Terry and Grayo are ill-equipped to prevent, involved as they are in a drugs deal with Cartwright.
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Harpur and Iles: Protection
Title: Harpur and Iles: Protection
Character: Ancient Dave
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: Testament: The Bible in Animation
Character: Arioch (voice)
Released: December 11, 1996
Type: TV
A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer animation.
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The Rainbow Thief
Title: The Rainbow Thief
Character: Madame Claire
Released: January 19, 1994
Type: Movie
A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.
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Title: Blue Heaven
Character: Eddie Nichols
Released: June 10, 1992
Type: TV
Frank Sandford has big hopes for his pop duo, Blue Heaven, but his home life is less than satisfactory. His father, Jim, is a local hard man whose favourite son is in prison, while his mother can only be described as the perfect match. Despite the lack of parental support he is determined that he should succeed as a pop star and that his favourite football team, West Bromwich Albion, will win the cup!
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Jason Brown
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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Title: Heartbeat
Character: 'Big' Al Paxton
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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Title: Birds of a Feather
Character: Abel Kane
Released: October 16, 1989
Type: TV
Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote some of the episodes along with many other writers. The first episode sees sisters Tracey Stubbs and Sharon Theodopolopodos brought together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon, who lived in an Edmonton council flat, moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green is a middle-aged married woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the later series the location is changed to Hainault. The series ended on Christmas Eve 1998 after a 9-year-run.
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Title: Making Out
Released: January 6, 1989
Type: TV
Making Out is a British television series, shown by the BBC between 1989 and 1991. The series, created by Franc Roddam, written by Debbie Horsfield, mixed comedy and drama in its portrayal of the women who worked on the factory floor at New Lyne Electronics in Manchester, tackling the personal lives of the characters as well as wider issues of recession, redundancy and retrenchment as the factory goes through various crises and take-overs. The music for the series was composed by New Order. The main theme for the show is an adaptation of the song "Vanishing Point". There is a specific mix of this song called the Making Out Mix.
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Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
Title: Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
Character: Keillor
Released: November 16, 1987
Type: Movie
The Doctor and Mel go for a holiday trip to Shangri-La aboard a Nostalgia Tours bus, only to get dragged into the battle against genocide of their fellow passenger Delta, a Chimeron Queen fleeing from the Bannermen who wish to make her species extinct.
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Title: Wogan
Character: Self
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: TV
Wogan is a British television chat show
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Title: The Kenny Everett Television Show
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 1982
Type: TV
Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.
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Brothers and Sisters
Title: Brothers and Sisters
Character: Drunk
Released: September 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Thriller about the murder of a prostitute. Centred round the lives and life styles of two brothers at the time of the murder. As the film progresses and the events of the murder night unfold, it emerges that both brothers - perhaps all men - are suspect.
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Title: Minder
Character: Rabbit
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.