Meredith Edwards

Born: 1917-06-10

Gwilym Meredith Edwards was a Welsh character actor and writer. He was born in mining village of Rhosllannerchrugog, near Wrexham, the son of a collier. He was educated at Ruabon Grammar School. He became an actor in 1938, firstly with the Welsh National Theatre Company, then the Liverpool Playhouse.  His film appearances include "A Run for Your Money" (1949), "The Blue Lamp" (1950), "The Magnet" (1950), "The Lavender Hill Mob" (1951), "The Cruel Sea" (1953), "The Great Game" (1953), "The Long Arm" (1956), "Dunkirk" (1958) and "Tiger Bay" (1959). He appeared as the murderous butler in the cult television series "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" in 1969, and as Tom in the cult children's science fiction serial "Sky" in 1975. He also played Richard Lloyd in the 1981 TV series "The Life and Times of David Lloyd George".


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Dunkirk

as Dave Bellman
Released: 1958-03-20

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their...

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The Lavender Hill Mob

as P. C. Williams
Released: 1951-06-28

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to...

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The Cruel Sea

as Yeoman Wells
Released: 1953-02-24

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with...

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Tiger Bay

as Williams
Released: 1959-03-01

In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the...

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The Blue Lamp

as PC 'Taff' Hughes
Released: 1950-01-19

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a...

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Gift Horse

as Jones
Released: 1952-06-01

Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The...

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Gulliver's Travels

as Uncle Jack
Released: 1977-01-01

Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu...

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Lost

as Sergeant Davies
Released: 1956-01-31

U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that...

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A Run for Your Money

as Thomas 'Twm' Jones
Released: 1949-11-23

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed...

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Only Two Can Play

as Clergyman on the Committee
Released: 1962-01-19

John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her...

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The Trials of Oscar Wilde

as Auctioneer
Released: 1960-05-28

England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest...

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The Long Arm

as Mr. Thomas
Released: 1956-06-01

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning...

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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

as uncredited
Released: 1966-03-11

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds...

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The Last Page

as Inspector Dale
Released: 1952-01-25

A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.

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Law and Disorder

as Sergeant Bolton
Released: 1958-06-09

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great...

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Burnt Evidence

as Bob Edwards
Released: 1954-07-05

Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally...

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This Is My Street

as Steve
Released: 1964-01-15

A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.

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Town on Trial

as Police Sgt. Rogers
Released: 1957-08-01

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local...

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The Magnet

as Harper
Released: 1950-10-01

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

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Doctor in Love

as Father
Released: 1960-07-12

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice,...

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The Old Devils

as Old Bore
Released: 1992-03-16

An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in...

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There Is Another Sun

as Detective Sergeant Bratcher
Released: 1951-06-12

Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how...

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Where No Vultures Fly

as Gwyl
Released: 1951-11-06

A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the...

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Mad About Men

as Police Constable (uncredited)
Released: 1954-11-16

Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is...

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Mad About Men

as Police Constable
Released: 1954-11-16

Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is...

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Final Appointment

as George Henry Martin
Released: 1954-10-01

A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders....

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A Day to Remember

as Bert Tripp
Released: 1953-11-10

Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley...

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Flame in the Streets

as Harry Mitchell
Released: 1961-06-19

Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions...

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Peril for the Guy

as Police Constable Durrant
Released: 1956-01-01

Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on...

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The Gambler and the Lady

as Dave Davies
Released: 1952-12-26

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he...

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Escapement

as Doctor Maxwell
Released: 1958-03-04

An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of...

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The Great Game

as Skid Evans
Released: 1953-01-01

The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical...

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Circus Friends

as Farmer Beasley
Released: 1956-10-01

A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.

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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

as Richard Lloyd
Released: 1981-03-04

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician...

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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

as Roland Sloane
Released: 1965-11-10

An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his...

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The Conquest of Everest

as Narrator
Released: 1953-12-09

A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand's...

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The Big Flame

as Logan
Released: 1969-02-19

After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject...

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Mask of Dust

as Laurence Gibson
Released: 1954-12-10

An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former...

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Girdle of Gold

as Griffiths the Hearse
Released: 1952-01-01

The adulterous Mrs Griffiths' corset has, unbeknown to her, a fortune stashed in it by her...

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Meet Mr. Malcolm

as Whistler Grant
Released: 1954-01-01

Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life...

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A Christmas Reunion

as Alf Boswell
Released: 1994-11-30

Follows the story of grandfather and his grandson and what their generations had to go through...

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Under Milk Wood

as (Voice)
Released: 1992-04-19

A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.

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The Winter Stallion

as Sam
Released: 1992-01-01

Dai Davies (Eric Wyn) is a Welshman running a cash-strapped farm in modern Wales and raising his...

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One Step Beyond

as Wyndham Roberts
First aired: 1959-01-20

Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The...

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No Hiding Place

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-16

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Sam Ludlow
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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Gideon's Way

as Paul Samuels
First aired: 1965-03-18

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on...

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The Saint

as Whitey Mullins
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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The Saint

as Emrys Pugh
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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ITV Play of the Week

as Inspector Davidson
First aired: 1955-09-27

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to...

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Maigret

as Foreman
First aired: 1960-10-31

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...

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Detective

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-03-30

A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three...

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A Mind to Kill

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-11-27

A Mind to Kill is a police detective series set in Wales, UK. It was developed from a 1991 pilot...

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Interpol Calling

as Doctor Gorman
First aired: 1959-09-13

The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international...

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Zero One

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-10-03

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The District Nurse

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-01-10

The District Nurse is a British television series, produced by BBC Wales and shown on BBC One...

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Flower of Evil

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-10-11

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Sky

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-04-07

Sky is a mystically-oriented children's science fantasy television serial made for ITV by HTV...

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