Robert Blythe

Robert Blythe

Nascimento : , Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Morte : 2018-11-20

História

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.

Perfil

Robert Blythe

Filmes

Um Homem Comum
Grocer
A história segue um criminoso de guerra na clandestinidade, que inicia um relacionamento com sua empregada, uma atriz islandesa em ascensão. Quando as buscas para o encontrarem ficam mais intensas, ele percebe que ela é única pessoa em que pode confiar.
Love Is Thicker Than Water
George
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.
Leviathan Ages
Narrator (voice)
Bound in ancient celestial ballet, nine dead Kings arise to claim a fallen Emperor.
A Poet in New York
Dylan's Dad
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.
Belly
Whale
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.
Noites de Agonia
Martin Stone
Após o fim de uma longa relação, John Hare (Stuart Laing) resolve mudar-se para uma velha e tranqüila casa, localizada em um lugar afastado, que ele considera perfeito para recomeçar sua vida. Mas as coisas não saem como o planejado. John começa a ouvir perturbadores e estranhos barulhos…e eles não fazem parte dos seus pesadelos que o acompanham todas as noites… aquilo parece ser real. Mesmo avisado pelos vizinhos para que deixe o local, ele resolve ficar. Mas com os pesadelos tornando-se cada vez mais assustadores, John sente ser dominado por uma estranha força e descobre, tarde demais, não estar sozinho naquela vazia e sombria casa.
Livre para Voar
Richard está tentando voar, de novo. E, desta vez, quer decolar de cima do telhado do banco onde sua namorada, Julie trabalha. Consequentemente, ela termina com ele. À beira de uma crise emocional, Richard foge para uma fazenda isolada em Wales. Ali dedica-se a 120 horas de serviço comunitários para compensar o incidente do Vôo. E isso inclui a tarefa de distrair a jovem Jane de 25 anos, que sofre de uma forma debilitante da doença motor neurone. Depois de passar um dia agitado rolando em sua cadeira de rodas por galerias de arte e museus, Jane persuade Richard a levá-la a um parque de diversões. Apesar do fato de ela ter que ir direto para o hospital após aventurar-se num brinquedo violento, Jane sente-se muito feliz por ter tido a oportunidade de experimentar tal liberdade. Richard, por outro lado sente-se culpado por ela ter sido deixada sob seus cuidados. À medida que esses dois estranhos vão se conhecendo, eles começam a trocar idéias e a confiar um no outro.
Darklands
McCullen (as Bob Blythe)
A reporter investigates ritual profanations and finds himself involved with a Druidic cult.
O Inglês que Subiu a Colina e Desceu a Montanha
Ivor
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.
The Old Devils
Bearded Thug
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.
As Filhas de Rebecca
Sergeant Bridges
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.
The Chestnut Soldier
Ivor Griffiths
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?
Emlyn's Moon
Ivor Griffiths
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.
Nineteen96
Chief Insp. Price
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
The Snow Spider
Ivor Griffiths
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.
The Love Child
Elvis
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.
Whoops Apocalypse
Guard with Egg in Mouth
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.
Owain Glyndŵr - Prince of Wales
Nicholas
A biopic of the last Prince of Wales.
Experience Preferred... But Not Essential
Ivan
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.
Giro City
Welsh Policeman
Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Bryn Roberts
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
The Shining Pyramid
Van Driver
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.