Hywel Bennett
Nacimiento : 1944-04-08, Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Muerte : 2017-07-25
Historia
Hywel Bennett (1944-2017) was a Welsh film and television actor best known for the trio of films he made in the '60s and '70s with Hayley Mills, and for his starring role in ITV's long running sitcom Shelley.
Reginald Conway
When detectives investigate a seemingly natural death of an old man, they discover a disturbing tape in his possession which alongside old family memories also features the murder of a woman. After tracking down the dead man's ex-wife and his estranged son they try to discover a link between the mans death and the horrific videotape.
Ronno
Three old friends reminisce about their old haunts. Hearing that a coffee bar they frequented in their youth is reopening with a rock 'n' roll theme, Dave, Charlie and Ronno decide to pay a visit. Third film in The Quest Trilogy.
Ronno
Three old friends are reunited after one was involved in an accident. They reminisce about their motorbike trip to the Isle of Man to ride the TT course. Second movie in The Quest Trilogy.
Richard Stevens
One for the Road follows Jimmy, Paul, Richard and Mark who meet on a rehabilitation course for drink drivers. Jimmy is young, ambitious and desperate to sell his late father's business; Paul has been salesman of the year three times running, however, that was five years ago; Richard is a retired millionaire property developer and Mark is a taxi driver with a weakness for weed and philosophy.
Ronno
Three elderly men, Dave, Ronno and Charlie, meet at Charlie's retirement party and reminisce about their teenage "quest" in the 1950s to get laid. This had involved travelling on their motorbikes up to the Lake District "where all the girls shag like rabbits" - but things hadn't turned out quite as they had planned. First movie in The Quest Trilogy.
The Boss
Mr. and Mrs. Peach's favourite neighbours emigrate to Australia, leaving the grieving couple anxiously twitching the net curtains of their suburban cul-de-sac home waiting to see who will be moving in next door. Unfortunately, far from their ideal, a flash, young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chapman turn out to be their new neighbours.
Reg
Malcolm tries to keep his dual lives -- and two wives -- separate, but when both of his spouses want to attend the same concert, he runs into a big problem.
Colbert
François Vatel es el leal y devoto maestro de ceremonias del arruinado Príncipe de Condé. El aristócrata necesita recuperar el favor del rey Luis XIV (1643-1715) y espera que éste le otorgue el mando de las tropas en una nueva guerra contra Holanda. Por ello, cuando el rey, acompañado de la corte, decide visitar a Condé en su castillo de Chantilly, éste le encarga a Vatel que organice, sin escatimar en gastos, una espectacular recepción que durará tres días y tres noches.
Herod
Desde la vida en común de María y José hasta la crucifixión de Jesús. Esta es la historia de una vida llena de dolor y de gozo, la vida de la Virgen María. Después de dar a luz a Jesús, María tuvo que protegerle de Herodes, le vio crecer y enfrentarse a su pueblo proclamándose el Mesías. Finalmente fue testigo de su muerte en la cruz y de su resurrección.
The Captain
A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery.
ACC Desmond Iles
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.
Dr Crippen
Jodie e Iris viven con su madre, una autoritaria y severa anciana que impide que sus hijas conozcan un hombre con el que casarse. Jodie está enamorada de un doctor local, un hombre mucho mayor que ella, pero la madre se opone totalmente. Beth entabla una relación con un stripper en Bristol, pero no ve futuro con su madre alrededor. Mientras ambas sueñan con deshacerse de su madre, Jodie conoce a H.R. Armstrong, un hombre conocido en el pueblo por asesinar a su mujer. Tras entablar conocimiento con él, a Jodie se le empiezan a aparecer los asesinos en serie más famosos de la historia, que no paran de darle consejos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ralph
Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a publisher, things start to go seriously wrong.
Dr. Gareth D. Lewis
A young girl is found brutally murdered in a small seaside town. The police are baffled; the town's inhabitants are panic-stricken. A serial killer is on the loose, and as yet more horrific murders take place, the search for clues becomes a desperate race against time. A tense psychological thriller with a chilling climax, this television movie introduced the charismatic, dedicated Welsh detective Noel Bain (Philip Madoc), a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinct which the sharpest criminal minds cannot match. Also starring Hywel Bennett as Doctor Lewis, the feature-length drama won a BAFTA Cymru award and initiated the highly acclaimed, darkly authentic crime series which ran between 1997 and 2004.
Mike Jessop
An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.
When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.
John
Adaptation of the play by Alan Ayckbourn.
Jimmy Fowler
An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.
Gideon Harlax
Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax unwittingly becomes part of an ancient plot that may result in the destruction of Earth...
Harry Essendorf
Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't come out yet and he doesn't want to alienate his mainly female fan-base. The article is a great success and leads to a huge amount of reactions, mainly from other gay men who are leading a double life. He decides to meet a number of these letter writers and eventually is forced to come out.
Tony
Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each other?
Mick Goonahan
The story of a Catholic family's dilemma about the pill.
Duckworth
Adaptación del clásico de Lewis Carroll "Alicia en el país de las maravillas".
Michael Rogers
Michael conduce un Rolls Royce para los acaudalados americanos que están de vacaciones por Europa. Cuando conoce a Ellie, una encantadora jovencita americana, se atraen mutuamente y tienen un affaire. Pero son interrumpidos por una extraña y siniestra anciana, quien advierte a Ellie "vete ahora antes de que te hagan daño”
Edwin Anthony
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
France
Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the cousins is suspended when Margaret is sent abroad for schooling. Now a young woman, Margaret returns to London and resumes her intimate connection with France.
Dennis
Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.
Brigg
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg; a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Martin (Georgie) Durnley
Martin es un joven con la mente perturbada que tiene una madre que lo trata como si fuera un niño pequeño, un padrastro que lo desprecia, y un hermano retrasado encerrado en una institución mental. Su única amiga es Susan, con quien le une un vínculo muy especial cuando Martin se refugia en su "otra" personalidad... la de Georgie, un niño de seis años. Pero cuando Susan se distancia de él, Martin entra en cólera y se obsesiona de tal forma con Susan que inicia un oleada de inusitada violencia.
Leonardo
Para poder casarse, dos jóvenes amantes deciden deshacerse del anciano marido de la mujer. Los medios empleados serán a cuál más surrealista, sin que ninguno parezca surtir efecto.
Arthur Fitton
Por problemas económicos, una pareja de recién casados no tiene más remedio que ir a vivirse temporalmente con los padres de él. Y claro, la luna de miel en casa de padres y suegros se prolonga demasiado.
Poor Willy’s mind has been warped by too many Westerns. He sees gunfighters on every corner, even though he’s in 1960s Swansea. Some think Billy’s simple. His Auntie just thinks he’s creative. But he’s on a dark path as his vivid imaginings grow wilder, and the world in his head comes roaring out into reality.An early piece from TV playwright Dennis Potter. (homemcr.otg)
An adaptation Turgenev's play of the same name.
Rynian
The Doctor and his companions are pursued through time and space by the Daleks on the desert planet Aridius and beyond.