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Y Pris
''Y Pris'' (English: ''The Price'') is a Welsh television crime drama, produced by Fiction Factory for Welsh public service television station S4C. The series, described in its tagline as "''The Sopranos'' by the seaside", is set in Carmarthenshire and follows the "tangled lives of a group of gangsters who hide their illicit dealings". The series was written and created by Tim Price. The first series comprises thirteen episodes. It was filmed in March and April 2007. The second series, comprising eight episodes, was commissioned by S4C in 2008 and filmed later the same year for broadcast in 2009. The series is, together with ''Caerdydd'', ''Cowbois ac Injans'', and ''Con Passionate'', part of S4C's drama editor Angharad Jones' drive to reach a younger audience for the station. The series' theme was written and recorded by Alabama 3 lead singer Rob Love. All twenty-one episodes are available to stream on S4C's website. All episodes are fully subtitled in both Welsh and English. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length Narrative film, narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowbois Ac Injans
Cowbois ac Injans ''(Cowboys and Engines)'' is a Welsh language television drama written by brother and sister Jon Tregenna and Catherine Tregenna which was broadcast on S4C. The series was made by Teledu Opus, which later became Rondo Productions. The title was a pun on the phrase "Cowboys and "Injuns"; "injun", a mis-pronunciation of "Indian" (as in " American Indian") sounds similar to "injan", Welsh for "engine". Plot The comedy drama is set in a used car showroom, Garej Wheelers, somewhere in the ''Wild West'' of Wales. Things don't always go according to plan. It's a world of love, lies and second-hand cars. The series also deals in the fading dreams of the staff, for as Billy Wheeler said, 'No ever grows up wanting to be a car salesman.' The series had a serial element but also featured a 'story of the week' with guest actors appearing to take the role of customers. Main characters *Bili Wheeler: Simon Fisher - patriarchal figure and proprietor of Wheelers *Balders: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s British Crime Drama Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Smiley
Michael Smiley (born 1963) is a Northern Irish comedian and actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films ''Kill List'' (2011) and ''The Lobster'' (2015). Early life Smiley was born in 1963 in Belfast and grew up in Holywood with an older brother and sister. He was raised Catholic. He moved to London with his first wife in 1983. He began doing stand-up in 1993, after accepting a bet at an open-mic night. He had worked as a cycle courier, like his character in ''Spaced,'' and as an acid house DJ. Career He became well known for his role as Tyres O'Flaherty, the bicycle riding raver, in two episodes of the Channel 4 sitcom ''Spaced'', and for his appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Melbourne Comedy Festival. He played Mac, a former member of the British Army's Parachute Regiment in the 2008 horror film '' Outpost'' and as a zombie in ''Shaun of the Dead''. In 2003, he guest starred in the ''Doctor Who'' audio drama '' Creatures of Beauty''. In 2004 he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Warnecke
Gordon Warnecke (born 24 August 1962 in London) is a British actor of Indo-Guyanese and German descent. He may be best known for his role as Omar in the 1985 film ''My Beautiful Laundrette'', co-starring as the lover of Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis). Other film credits include Franco Zeffirelli's ''Young Toscanini'' and Hanif Kureishi's ''London Kills Me''. Television credits include ''Boon'', ''Doctor Who'' (in the serial ''Mindwarp''), ''Only Fools and Horses'', '' Virtual Murder'', '' Birds of a Feather'', ''EastEnders'', ''Holby City'' and ''The Bill''. An experienced theatre actor, he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre; he most recently returned to the stage with a national tour of Ibsen's ''An Enemy of the People'' for Tara Arts and two new contemporary adaptations of Christmas productions at the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He has written and directed a short film ''The Magician'' which was to be released in March 2012. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas (actor)
William Thomas (also known as William Huw-Thomas) is a Welsh actor, who has appeared in many TV episodes and films. He made his first appearance on TV in 1974, and his work, as an actor, is still ongoing. He is known for his roles in two ''Doctor Who'' episodes, along with roles in other major TV programmes, including ''Only Fools and Horses'' and ''Midsomer Murders'' in 2007. In 2011 he appeared as a regular in '' Torchwood: Miracle Day'' as Geraint Cooper This is a list of characters from the British television science fiction, British science fiction television programme ''Torchwood'', created by Russell T Davies. This list includes main characters, recurring characters and important guest chara ...; having previously played the character on a one-off occasion in 2008. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, William Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Welsh male television actors Welsh male film actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Milton
Gareth Milton is a Welsh actor. He was born in Aberystwyth and brought up in Cardigan, Ceredigion from the age of five. He graduated from Rose Bruford College in 2006 with a first-class BA(Hons) in Acting. His credits include several regular roles on the Welsh television channel S4C such as Ian Blake in the award-winning Welsh gangster drama ''Y Pris''; Jamie Roberts in ''Caerdydd'' (series 4 and 5); Martin in '' Alys''; and Barry in ''Pen Talar''. Milton became known to the wider non-Welsh speaking public after playing the co-starring role of Dr. Simon Strettle in BBC Wales' ''Crash'', written by Tony Jordan. In 2010, Milton appeared on the internet TV show ''All Shook Up!'' as Dai Jones, Enzo Calzaghe's right-hand man. In 2014 Milton guest-starred in episode 6 ("Delyth") of the S4C romantic comedy-drama ''Cara Fi''. In late 2014 and early 2015, he appeared on ''Pobol y Cwm ''Pobol y Cwm'' (''People of the Valley''; ) is a Welsh-language soap opera produced by the BBC sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Pierce
Gareth Pierce (born 19 February 1981) is a Welsh actor and musician who has appeared in various television series. In 2020, he began portraying Gavin Moss in BBC Radio 4's ''The Archers'' and became the second actor to play Todd Grimshaw in the ITV soap ''Coronation Street''. In 2006, Pierce was named in the Top 50 most eligible bachelors list by ''Company Magazine''. Career In 2008, Pierce and Matthew Wall founded the band Hafaliadau = Equations. Owain Taylor-Shaw joined in April 2008, followed by Mark Flanagan. Their debut album was released in November 2008. Pierce is known for his roles as Osian James in the S4C TV-series ''Caerdydd'' (five series, 2006–2010) and Lenny Mack in Sky 1's '' Stella'' (two series, 2013–2014). He appeared in such S4C series as ''Y Gwyll'', ''Cara Fi'', '' Alys'', ''Pen Talar'', ''Cowbois ac Injans'' and soap ''Pobol y Cwm''. He appeared in the second series of ''Y Pris'' in 2009 as skinhead Nicky. Further English-speaking appearances incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Lloyd-Gregory
Sara Lloyd-Gregory (born 19 August 1986), also billed as Sara Gregory, is a Welsh actress. She is known for her leading role in the S4C drama series '' Alys'', and appearing in the Sky1 series '' Thorne: Sleepyhead''. Early life Sara Gregory was born in Ammanford, West Wales in 1986 to Yvonne (née Lloyd) and Adrian Gregory, a member of the Welsh rugby team, The Gregory Brothers. She attended Maes yr Yrfa School in Cross Hands and had studied ballet from the age of three. However, she was intent on becoming a dancer until the age of 16 until she developed an interest in acting. Following her high school graduation, she went on to study at Gorseinon College in Swansea for a brief time, although her ambition to perform would prevail and she went on the enrol at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, a conservatoire in Cardiff, for which she never graduated, and instead opted to pursue a career on screen, a decision which proved successful due to her affiliation with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huw Ceredig
Huw Ceredig Jones (22 June 1942 – 16 August 2011) was a Welsh actor, best known for portraying Reg Harries in the Welsh-language soap opera ''Pobol y Cwm''. Early life Huw Ceredig was born in Brynamman, Carmarthenshire, in 1942, the son of Reverend Gerallt Jones, and Elizabeth J. Griffiths, a Welsh teacher. Ceredig was educated at Llandovery College, where one of his teachers was the Welsh rugby player and coach Carwyn James, before going on to train as a teacher at Trinity College in Carmarthen. He was a member of the renowned Cilie family of poets, and was raised in Llanuwchllyn. Ceredig was the brother of Welsh politician Alun Ffred Jones, folk singer/politician Dafydd Iwan, and Arthur Morus. Ceredig re-mortgaged his house to purchase instruments for the new Welsh band Edward H. Dafis and introduced them to the stage for the first time at the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Ruthin in 1973. He played the part of Reg Harris on S4C's long-running soap opera, ''Pobol y Cwm' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Media Festival
The Celtic Media Festival, formerly known as the Celtic Film and Television Festival, aims to promote the languages and cultures of the Celtic nations in film, on television, radio and new media. The festival is an annual three-day celebration of broadcasting and film from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man, Galicia, Cornwall and Brittany. The festival was founded in 1980. History The festival was first held in 1980, on the Scottish islands of South Uist and Benbecula. The 30th festival was held in March 2009 in Caernarfon, Wales. The 40th festival was held in Aviemore, Scotland. The festival presents the Torc Awards to the winners of 26 different categories. The festival also presents a Gold Torc to the winner of Spirit of the Festival Award - a film or television programme wholly or substantially in a Celtic language that encapsulates the spirit of the Celtic Media Festival. Chairs The Celtic Media Festival has been chaired by representatives from the broadcasting industr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Price
Tim Price (born 3 April 1979) is a New Zealand equestrian, competing in eventing. He is married to Jonelle Price (née Richards), also a New Zealand eventing rider. They are both competing at top international level. Price was born in 1979 in Canterbury, New Zealand and educated at Rangiora High School. He travelled to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as part of the reserve for individual and team eventing. Jock Paget Jonathan "Jock" Paget (born 17 November 1983) is a New Zealand equestrian who won a bronze medal in Team eventing at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2013 he became only the second rider to win the Badminton Horse Trials on debut after fello ... withdrew on 5 August 2016 after his horse, Clifton Lush, cut its cheek at the Rio stable and did not recover in time for the event. Price and his horse Ringwood Sky Boy subsequently replaced Paget. CCI***** results International championship results References External links * * * 1979 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
