Meredith Edwards
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".
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6512 |
| Birthday | 1917-06-10 |
| Place of Birth | Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales, UK |
| Also Known As | Gwilym Meredith Edwards, Мередит Эдвардс, |
1957
Town on Trial
6.521/24
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort...
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Town on Trial
1977
Gulliver's Travels
5.63/23
Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu episode. It was made partly in live action and partly...
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Gulliver's Travels
1965
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
10/1
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
1949
A Run for Your Money
6.184/19
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort...
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A Run for Your Money
1952
The Gambler and the Lady
5.607/14
A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must...
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The Gambler and the Lady
1958
Dunkirk
6.833/69
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain someh...
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Dunkirk
1952
The Last Page
5.813/24
A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.
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The Last Page
1950
The Magnet
6.348/23
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
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The Magnet
1950
The Blue Lamp
6.6/62
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the...
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The Blue Lamp
1954
Mask of Dust
4.192/13
An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital he must decide whethe...
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Mask of Dust
1956
Lost
6.833/6
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London...
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Lost
1958
Escapement
4.889/9
An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy in...
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Escapement
1951
There Is Another Sun
6.5/2
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground,...
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There Is Another Sun
1956
Circus Friends
9/1
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.
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Circus Friends
1971
Male Bait
7/1
Apparently a British answer to the Boys in the Band
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Male Bait
1954
Meet Mr. Malcolm
6.833/3
Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery when his estranged wife Louie asks for his help. Her...
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Meet Mr. Malcolm
1953
A Day to Remember
7.417/6
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get i...
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A Day to Remember
1951
Where No Vultures Fly
6.333/6
A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to cre...
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Where No Vultures Fly
1954
Burnt Evidence
6/3
Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he h...
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Burnt Evidence
1950
Midnight Episode
8/2
A panhandler who opens car doors for people in London's theatre district finds himself involved in a deadly mystery when a corpse with a cash-stuffed...
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Midnight Episode
1959
Tiger Bay
7.2/57
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting P...
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Tiger Bay
1960
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
6.333/30
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with th...
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1994
A Christmas Reunion
7/2
Follows the story of grandfather and his grandson and what their generations had to go through which in the end may not be that different.
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A Christmas Reunion
1952
Girdle of Gold
8.25/4
The adulterous Mrs Griffiths' corset has, unbeknown to her, a fortune stashed in it by her drunken, money-loving husband.
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Girdle of Gold
1964
This Is My Street
5.9/10
A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.
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This Is My Street
1953
The Cruel Sea
6.95/80
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. Th...
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The Cruel Sea
1951
The Lavender Hill Mob
7.2/283
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
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The Lavender Hill Mob
1956
The Long Arm
6.935/23
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The fi...
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The Long Arm
1961
Flame in the Streets
6.273/11
Domestic difficulties develop in a working-class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican man.
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Flame in the Streets
1954
Devil on Horseback
6/2
A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey
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Devil on Horseback
1952
Gift Horse
6.591/22
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 19...
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Gift Horse
1953
The Conquest of Everest
7.16/25
A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay climb Mount Ev...
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The Conquest of Everest
1992
The Winter Stallion
5.75/4
Sixteen year old Gwen Davies adores the horses she and her grandfather have raised on the beautiful Welsh Mountains. However, when her grandfather die...
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The Winter Stallion
1969
The Big Flame
6.667/3
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to...
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The Big Flame
1981
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
0/0
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 them...
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
1954
Final Appointment
6.143/7
A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took pl...
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Final Appointment
1962
Only Two Can Play
5.81/31
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys...
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Only Two Can Play
1954
To Dorothy, a Son
5.778/9
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets...
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To Dorothy, a Son
1966
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
6.167/27
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover £2.5 million hidden in their school.
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The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
1958
Law and Disorder
6.444/9
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out abo...
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Law and Disorder
1954
Mad About Men
6.476/21
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
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Mad About Men
1954
Mad About Men
6.476/21
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
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Mad About Men
1953
The Great Game
7.333/3
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing...
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The Great Game
1956
Peril for the Guy
7.667/3
Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on stealing valuable invention.
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Peril for the Guy
1992
Under Milk Wood
7/2
A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.
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Under Milk Wood
1960
Doctor in Love
5.472/18
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-c...
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Doctor in Love
1992
The Old Devils
0/0
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...
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The Old Devils
1956
North to Wales
0/0
A British Transport Film.
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