Howell Evans
Nascimento : 1928-03-03, Maesteg, Wales, UK
Morte : 2014-09-09
George the Scout
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
Dr. Owen
Boris Plots (Alfred Molina) é o dono de uma empresa que organiza funerais que vive na pequena cidade de Welsh, na Inglaterra. Boris é completamente apaixonado por Betty Rhys-Jones (Brenda Blethyn) desde quando era adolescente, e agora sabe que seu amor é correspondido. Porém há um problema: Betty é casada, com Hugh (Robert Pugh), e não quer quebrar os votos que fez no matrimônio de acompanhar o marido até que a morte os separe. Para driblar a situação, Boris oferece uma saída incomum: realizar um funeral de Betty, enganando a todos na cidade e possibilidade que ela fuja com ele. O plano segue em frente, mas eles não contavam com a interferência de Frank Featherbed (Christopher Walken), um empresário americano que também trabalha no ramo de funerais, mas que acredita que eles devem ser mais alegres e descontraídos.
Retired Husband
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.
Thomas the Trains
Quando uma dupla de cartógrafos Ingleses, Anson e Garrad, deve dizer aos moradores de uma aldeia galesa que sua montanha é apenas uma colina, a comunidade de Fynnon Garw fica extremamente ofendida. E se propõe a mudar isso. Em 1917 uma dupla de cartógrafos militares Ingleses, Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant) e George Garrad (Ian McNeice), está percorrendo o País de Gales fazendo medições da altura de diversas elevações para o novo mapa que o governo Britânico encomendou. E acabam chegando ao povoado de Fynnon Garw cuja pequena população tem muito orgulho de sua "Montanha". Porém após as primeiras medições verificam que a "Montanha" não atinge os 1.000 pés necessários para ter esse título. E devem dizer aos moradores da aldeia galesa que sua "Montanha" é apenas uma colina. A comunidade ofendida se propõe a mudar isso.
Gareth Pumphrey
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.
Lloyd Thomas
Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial 1966 All Blacks/Wales rugby match - with the original teams. The now old men pull on their jerseys one more time while Morgan deals with his past on his return home. (from IMDB)
Chief Buffalo Coach
An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English soccer team.
A lonely young man longing to be accepted lies his way into a local church. The priest and his congregation soon begin to unravel his tales as his actions become versatile.
Angry Driver
In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house only to find he prefers spending to saving and is happy to spend his money on a few hours of happiness rather than a lifetime's conventionality.
Prison Officer Morgan
Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
Library Policeman
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
The Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.