BBC Play of the Month
1965
star 5.3
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadca...
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Acting
Rachel Thomas
Rachel Thomas was a Welsh character actress, who almost always played the stereotypical Welsh mother or grandmother, and appeared regularly on both Welsh and English language television.
She appeared in such classic films as "The Proud Valley "(1940) with Paul Robeson, "Blue Scar" (1949) and "Tiger Bay" (1959). In 1954 she was part of the original BBC Radio cast of Dylan Thomas' radio play "Under Milk Wood", playing the roles of Rosie Probert, Mary Ann Sailors and Mrs. Willy Nilly and went on to play Mary Ann Sailors again in the 1972 film version.
Filmography
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Theatre 625
1964
star 7.2
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 19...
Festival
1963
star 8.0
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Dad's Army
1968
star 7.4
Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group o...
Churchill's People
1974
star 5.0
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Ch...
Suspense
1962
star 6.7
Anthology series telling suspenseful tales.
Menace
1970
This is a series of thrillers designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
Shadows
1975
star 6.8
Shadows is a British Supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for ITV between 197...
How Green Was My Valley
1975
star 6.7
How Green Was My Valley is a six-part television miniseries adapted by Elaine Morgan, based on Richard Llewelly...
Sanctuary
1967
star 6.0
The District Nurse
1984
star 6.3
The District Nurse is a British television series, produced by BBC Wales and shown on BBC One between 1984 and...
Tiger Bay
1959
star 7.2
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a...
Hawkmoor
1978
star 9.0
The Captive Heart
1946
star 6.4
A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story...
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
1981
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Ma...
Ennal's Point
1982
Examines the professional and personal lives of a Welsh lifeboat crew and their tight-knit community in a small...
Undercover
1943
star 6.1
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small...
The Halfway House
1944
star 6.5
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh countr...
Catacombs
1965
star 6.1
A rich woman who uses meditation to deal with pain is visited by her niece who returns from Paris. The woman ca...
The Proud Valley
1940
star 6.3
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate s...
Valley of Song
1953
star 8.0
A little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when a coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" is given to...
Under Milk Wood
1992
star 7.0
A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.
Blue Scar
1949
star 8.5
1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town.
David
1951
star 6.6
Told with authenticity and perception, David looks back on the life of a school caretaker in a Welsh mining tow...
Sea Song
1974
star 1.0
Millionaire recluse Ray Carter takes part in a single handed race across the Atlantic - but soon discovers a st...
After the Funeral
1960
star 9.0
Play about two brothers who both want their Welsh grandfather to live with them.
The Clock
1986
A film about a twelve-year-old girl who has the opportunity to go back in time with the help of the family's bi...