Sue Jones-Davies
Birthday: Born in 1949-01-01 in Wales, UK
Deathday: Alive
Sue Jones-Davies is a Welsh actress, singer and politician. She has appeared on stage, screen and television. She met her former husband, the actor and writer Chris Langham, when they both studied at Bristol University. After graduation they moved to London but later separated, when she moved to Aberystwyth with her three sons. She became the Plaid Cymru Mayor of Aberystwyth in 2008, and now serves as town councillor there. The town of Aberystwyth had banned the showing of the film "The Life of Brian", in which she played Judith Iscariot, since its release in 1979.
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How Green Was My Valley
Character: Angharad Morgan
How Green Was My Valley is a six-part television miniseries adapted by Elaine Morgan, based on Richard Llewellyn's eponymous 1939 novel. The serial is produced by the BBC and 20th Century Fox Television for BBC Two—the latter's involvement is due to their ownership of the rights to the novel and its subsequent Oscar-winning 1941 film. Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of ra...
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Life of Brian
Character: Judith Iscariot
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs....
Radio On
Character: Girl
A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more....
Solomon & Gaenor
Character: Gwen
A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating brother. The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When anti-Jewish riots break out, the two are forced to flee and become separated....
Otherworld
Character: Sian (voice)
Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabinogi (the Otherworld). They swim down and are transported back in time many centuries to the Mabinogi. There they encounter some problems with mediaeval life, and they have to deal with the conflict between fate personal choice and magic...
Monty Python in Aberystwyth
Character: Self
In a strange turn of events, Sue Jones-Davies became the mayor of a Welsh town where Monty Python's Life of Brian was still banned - the film where she played the female lead....
A Mind To Kill
Character: Mary Lewis
A young girl is found brutally murdered in a small seaside town. The police are baffled; the town's inhabitants are panic-stricken. A serial killer is on the loose, and as yet more horrific murders take place, the search for clues becomes a desperate race against time. A tense psychological thriller with a chilling climax, this television movie introduced the charismatic, dedicated Welsh detective Noel Bain (Philip Madoc), a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinc...
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Character: Megan Lloyd George
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 theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone...
The Theory of Flight
Character: Catherine
Richard is assigned public service after crashing his homemade aircraft, leading him to meet Jane, a young woman dying of motor neuron disease. After they strike up a friendship, Jane asks Richard to help fulfill her deepest wish: to lose her virginity before her death....
Facelift
Character: Ina
In a dystopian future, the population is divided between the elite "numbers" and the destitute "names" who escape the hardships of the their lives at a magic cabaret run by Zax. When Zax falls for a slumming-it "number" he builds a robot replica of her....
Morphine and Dolly Mixtures
Character: Irene O'Farrell
A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a domineering, volatile alcoholic parent. It is based on an autobiographical account by Carol-Ann Courtney. At first, the girl has some diversion from her intense and frightening relationship with her father in the person of her maternal grandmother, but that outlet is soon closed when her father bans her from their home....
Pinwydd
Character: Blod
Anthropomorphic manifestations of the hyperobjects of animal husbandry, millitarisation, forestry plantations and capitalist markets become combating characters in this poetic film. Rooted in the realities of landlordism, climate collapse, and extractivism, the film draws on sci-fi tropes and the Mabinogion myth of Blodeuwedd to rupture the seeming inevitability of capitalism....