Meredith Edwards
Birthday: 1917-06-10
Place of Birth: Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
Biography: 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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Town on Trial
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis cl...
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Gulliver's Travels
Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu epi...
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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors...
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A Run for Your Money
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to ...
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The Gambler and the Lady
A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls i...
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Dunkirk
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer i...
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The Last Page
A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk....
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The Magnet
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero....
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The Blue Lamp
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new ...
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Mask of Dust
An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former riva...
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Lost
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their ...
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Escapement
An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients ...
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There Is Another Sun
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer'...
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Circus Friends
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster....
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Meet Mr. Malcolm
Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery wh...
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A Day to Remember
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of th...
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Where No Vultures Fly
A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing d...
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Burnt Evidence
Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hy...
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Midnight Episode
A panhandler who opens car doors for people in London's theatre district finds himself involved in a...
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Tiger Bay
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal k...
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son...
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A Christmas Reunion
Follows the story of grandfather and his grandson and what their generations had to go through which...
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Girdle of Gold
The adulterous Mrs Griffiths' corset has, unbeknown to her, a fortune stashed in it by her drunken, ...
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The Long Arm
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with cl...
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The Cruel Sea
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexp...
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The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal go...
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Flame in the Streets
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manife...
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Gift Horse
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae a...
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The Conquest of Everest
A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand's Edmun...
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The Winter Stallion
Sixteen year old Gwen Davies adores the horses she and her grandfather have raised on the beautiful ...
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The Big Flame
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management ...
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician wit...
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Final Appointment
A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. Th...
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Only Two Can Play
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights o...
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To Dorothy, a Son
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband do...
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden...
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Law and Disorder
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths t...
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Mad About Men
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well u...
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Mad About Men
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well u...
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The Great Game
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach ...
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Peril for the Guy
Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on steal...
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Under Milk Wood
A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub....
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Doctor in Love
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping...
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The Old Devils
An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retireme...
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