Emlyn Williams

Emlyn Williams

Рождение : 1905-11-26, Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales, UK

Смерть : 1987-09-25

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987), known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh dramatist and actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Emlyn Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Профиль

Emlyn Williams

Фильмы

Король Ральф
Novel
К ужасу всей Великобритании, выясняется, что единственный наследник опустевшего престола — жирный любитель гамбургеров из Америки по фамилии Ральф, который совершенно не представляет, что это такое — быть настоящим королем.
Past Caring
Edward
67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.
The Deadly Game
Bernard Laroque
Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party, an unwitting American becomes part of the game.
Кукуруза зеленая
Theatre Play
Моффат - школьная учительница в маленьком шахтерском городке, которая помогает талантливому юноше поступить в университет.
The Walking Stick
Jack Foil
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.
David Copperfield
Mr. Dick
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
The Epic That Never Was
Himself
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
Глаз дьявола
Alain de Montfaucon
Удручённый очередным плохим сезоном, маркиз-винодел Филипп де Монфако отправляется лично осмотреть свои виноградники. Своих детей и жену он оставляет в Лондоне, но вскоре те решают последовать за ним. Приехав в фамильный замок, они начинают подозревать, что с главой семейства да и со всеми местными обитателями что-то неладно.
Night Must Fall
Theatre Play
A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.
Угловая комната
Dr. Weaver
Джейн Фоссет - дочь богатых родителей. Атмосфера ханжества и лицемерия, царившая в ее семье, заставила Джейн покинуть родной дом во Франции. Уехав в Лондон, она поселяется в дешевой комнате, имеющей форму угла. Здесь Джейн знакомится с разными обитателями меблированных комнат. Всегда приветливая и отзывчивая, Джейн приобретает себе много друзей, среди них и молодой человек по имени Тоби.
Крушение Мэри Дир
Sir Wilfred Falcett
Тайна корабля-призрака, вышедшего из ночной тьмы только с обезумевшим и пьяным капитаном на борту.
Web of Evidence
Enoch Oswald
A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
I Accuse!
Emile Zola
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Time Without Pity
Theatre Play
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Глубокое синее море
Sir William Collyer
Хистер, женщина средних лет, несчастлива в браке с респектабельным и скучным судьёй, и она заводит головокружительный роман с молодым лётчиком.
Айвенго
Wamba
В 1190 году саксонский рыцарь сэр Уилфред из Айвенго инкогнито возвращается в Англию из Третьего Крестового похода, чтобы собрать деньги для выкупа короля Англии Ричарда Львиное Сердце из австрийского плена. В Англии Айвенго узнает, что брат Ричарда, принц Джон, намерен вероломно узурпировать королевскую власть. Верный Ричарду отважный Айвенго не намерен мириться с ситуацией, и онрешает действовать. Прелестная девушка Ребекка, дочь спасенного бесстрашным рыцарем, богатого еврея, подарит Айвенго фамильные драгоценности, чтобы он смог купить снаряжение иучаствовать в престижном рыцарском турнире в Эшби. Там Айвенго должен выиграть призовые деньги для выкупа Ричарда из неволи. Многострадальная Англия ждет своего короля.
Оставшийся в тени
Bank Manager
Фильм посвящен трагической судьбе изобретателя первой в мире кинокамеры Уильяма Фриз-Грина. Свою деятельность Фриз-Грин начал в одной из фотостудий Бристоля и вскоре завоевал признание своими талантливыми снимками. Но ему хочется воспроизвести жизнь в движении. После долгих усилий ему удалось создать необходимый аппарат, но им никто не заинтересовался и бедность не покидала семейство Фриз-Гринов. Он похоронил первую жену, а вторая ушла, не вынеся постоянной нужды. Сыновья вступили в армию во время Первой мировой войны, и Фриз-Грин умер в полной неизвестности, одиноким, без всяких средств к существованию.
Яд другого человека
Dr. Henderson
Успешная писательница Жанет Фробишер, много лет назад расставшаяся со своим мужем преступником, живет одна в Английской провинции. Сюжетная линия развивается вокруг убийства мужа, приехавшего после очередного преступления.
The Scarf
Dr. David Dunbar
A man believe to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Three Husbands
Maxwell Bard
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
The Last Days of Dolwyn
Rob
An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
The Last Days of Dolwyn
Screenplay
An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
The Last Days of Dolwyn
Director
An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
Кукуруза зеленая
Theatre Play
Сорокалетняя учительница Лилли Моффат полна благородных идей. Она твердо намерена открыть в захолустном шахтерском поселке школу для детей шахтеров. Столкнувшись с сопротивлением владельцев шахт, Моффат открывает обучение у себя дома…
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Writer
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
Hatter's Castle
Dennis
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.
This England
Appleyard
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
This England
Dialogue
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
Major Barbara
Snobby Prince
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
You Will Remember
Bob Slater
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
Girl in the News
Tracy
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
The Stars Look Down
Joe Gowlan
The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the novel follows the development of three young men in the small mining town, the film focuses on just one of them; the smart David Fenwick who gets a scholarship to university, meets a girl who only marries him because her former boyfriend has abandoned her, and eventually returns to the mine town as a teacher and takes part in a futile rescue effort when the mine is flooded, trapping both his father and his younger brother.
Таверна Ямайка
Harry, gang member
Мэри, осиротев, приезжает на побережье Корнуолла к своим дяде и тётке, содержащим таверну «Ямайку». Вскоре Мэри понимает, что таверна является базой для банды, грабящей суда, разбившиеся о скалистый берег. Жизни сироты угрожает опасность, однако среди головорезов есть человек, готовый помочь девушке.
They Drive by Night
Shorty Matthews
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
Цитадель
Additional Dialogue
Молодой доктор Эндрю Мэнсон работал в маленьком шахтерском городке, но понял, что не может справиться с истинными причинами тяжелых болезней, которыми страдали бедные рабочие люди. Он переехал в Лондон, где приятель подсказал Мэнсону, как можно "раскручивать" богатых клиентов...
Цитадель
Owen
Молодой доктор Эндрю Мэнсон работал в маленьком шахтерском городке, но понял, что не может справиться с истинными причинами тяжелых болезней, которыми страдали бедные рабочие люди. Он переехал в Лондон, где приятель подсказал Мэнсону, как можно "раскручивать" богатых клиентов...
Night Alone
Charles Seaton
Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Dr. Headlam
The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer realises that he is trapped and commits suicide.
Night Must Fall
Theatre Play
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.
Broken Blossoms
Writer
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Broken Blossoms
Chen Huan
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
The Divine Spark
Adaptation
British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
City of Beautiful Nonsense
Jack Grey
A young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father. But only realises after various tribulations she should follow her heart rather than her head.
The Dictator
King Christian VII of Danmark
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
Человек, который слишком много знал
Writer
Боб и Джилл Лоуренс проводят отпуск в Швейцарских Альпах вместе со своей дочерью Бетти. На глазах у супружеской пары погибает их новый знакомый — француз Луи Бернар. Перед смертью он успевает прошептать Бобу несколько слов о готовящемся шпионском заговоре. Для того чтобы Боб молчал, злоумышленники похищают и держат в заложниках его дочь. Супруги должны спасти своего ребенка и выполнить гражданский долг — не допустить покушения на известного дипломата.
The Iron Duke
Bates
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
Road House
Chester
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
Evensong
George Leary
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
My Song for You
Theodore Bruckner
In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get her fiancé hired as the orchestra's pianist.
Evergreen
Adaptation
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.
Friday the Thirteenth
William Blake
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Friday the Thirteenth
Dialogue
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Sally Bishop
Arthur Montague
A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter
Men of Tomorrow
Horners
In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.
The Frightened Lady
Lord Lebanon
A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
National Theatre: The Corn Is Green
Writer
One person can make all the difference. Miss Lily Moffat arrives in rural North Wales, determined to help young local miners out of poverty by teaching them to read and write. Lily soon spots talent in the unruly Morgan Evans, but when she faces growing resistance from the community, she does everything in her power to forge him a new future.