Boyd Clack
Birthday: Born in 1951-03-07 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Deathday: Alive
Boyd Daniel Clack (born 7 March 1951) is a Canadian-born Welsh writer, actor, musician and politician. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to Welsh parents. At a young age, he emigrated with his family to Wales, where he grew up in Tonyrefail, where his family were originally from. His acting credits include Twin Town, High Hopes, and Satellite City, the latter two of which he also co-wrote. He has also released the first part of his autobiography. Kisses Sweeter than Wine, and two music albums, Welsh Bitter and Labourer of Love .
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Satellite City
Character: Gwynne
Satellite City was a Welsh sitcom which started out originally as a radio show on BBC Radio Wales in 1994 and then evolved into a TV version made by BBC Wales and was first broadcast in 1996. The setting was an imaginary small town in the South Wales Valleys. The plot centred on the arrival of Randy, an American visitor, who was taken in by the Price family...
High Hopes
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High Hopes is a sitcom made in Wales, produced and directed by Gareth Gwenlan for BBC Wales and is set in a fictional area of the South Wales Valleys called Cwm-Pen-Ôl. It stars Margaret John as widow Elsie Hepplewhite, Robert Blythe as her son Richard Hepplewhite, Steven Meo as Hoffman and Oliver Wood as Charlie. It revolves around Elsie's son Richard and his dodgy business ventures, assisted by the two boys, who attempted to rob the Hepplewhites' house in the first episode. The pilot was shown...
Hana's Helpline
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Hana's Helpline is a stop-motion animation series for children, about Hana the duck agony-aunt who runs a telephone helpline for animals with problems....
Baker Boys
Character: Gwynfor
Baker Boys is an English-language Welsh television drama series, produced by BBC Wales and broadcast on BBC One Wales. The series was written by Helen Raynor and Gary Owen. Torchwood creator Russell T Davies also had a role as creative consultant, which he fulfilled from Los Angeles. The first episode of the series was broadcast on 23 January 2011. The programme follows the workers of Valley Bara bakery which is the economic centre of Trefynydd, a small fictional village in South Wales. Generat...
Being Human
Character: Bazzer
Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them....
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
Character: Abel Mularchy
The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased....
La Cha Cha
Character: Lance Boyle
Solti Buttering is on a road trip to scatter his grandfathers ashes. Finding everywhere closed, he stumbles across La Cha Cha, a holiday park with a community of retired characters, living off grid and having the time of their lives. He soon discovers that feisty owner Libby Rees and her brother Damien are struggling to keep the place, and community, going. But they have a very unusual plan....
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Character: Ken
A prequel to Marion and Geoff, which captures on camcorder the fateful events at a garden party when mini-cab driver Keith's life fell apart. Friends and family have gathered for a barbecue to celebrate the career of Keith's wife Marion, who is at the party with her boss, Mr Sushimoto, and her colleague, Geoff. However, Keith's father-in-law uncovers the true extent of Marion's naked ambition, with humiliating results for Keith....
Monster
Character: Nosey Neville
A comical short film about a family raising a spoilt daughter....
Risen
Character: Howard Winstone Sr
As one of the rising talents of amateur boxing, Howard Winstone, a young Welsh boy from Merthyr Tydfil, was fast making a name for himself with his knock out right hand. A long professional fighting career surely beckoned? Then disaster strikes. An industrial accident results in Winstone losing three fingers on his right hand. Through sheer determination, and despite only being able to make a fist with one hand, Winstone develops a dynamic new style and begins boxing his way back up the amateur ...
Tectonic Plates
Character: Rhys
An adaptation of Robert Lepage's stage play about lost love and considered suicide....
Twin Town
Character: Vicar
Jeremy and Julian Lewis, the "Lewis Twins", are two unruly brothers who terrorise the city of Swansea from the caravan park where they live with their family. When their father, Fatty, is injured while working on a roof for local kingpin Bryn Cartwright, they try in vain to claim compensation. Thus begins a campaign of terror, which local policemen Terry and Grayo are ill-equipped to prevent, involved as they are in a drugs deal with Cartwright....
Selwyn's Lucky Day
Character: Selwyn
A string of mishaps, accidents and absurd occurrences pave the way for a luckless down-trodden Selwyn to experience what turns out to be the most fortunate day of his life....
Benny & Jolene
Character: Randy
The trials and tribulations of the latest Indie Folk Star - Jolene....
Eternal Beauty
Character: Doctor
When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences....
Timestalker
Character: Lester / Farmer
A karmic journey that sees the hapless heroine Agnes reincarnated every time she makes the same mistake: falling in love with the wrong man....