Gwenllian Davies

Actress

† July 24, 2007

Bedlinog, Glamorganshire, Wales, UK

Biography

Born 1914, Sarah Gwenllian Davies was a Welsh actress, known for assorted roles in television and film. She died in 2007 in Torbay, Devon, England.

Filmography

7.2

Heartbeat

Enid Blunkett-Forbes

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

6.0

ScreenPlay

Aunt Delyth

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

7.3

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Lottie

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.

7.9

Coupling

Aunt Muriel

Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.

6.7

Chillers

A 1990 horror anthology series, with host Anthony Perkins presenting and screening tales based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories that display a sinister atmosphere, and delve into the darkest depths of human nature.

7.4

Waiting for God

Gwen Kent

Refusing to succumb to old age, Tom Ballard and Diana Trent are a pair of seasoned delinquents that cause many headaches. Their uneasy alliance is destined to make life difficult at the Bayview Retirement Village.

6.7

Kinky Boots

Mrs. Cob

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

6.2

Eyes Down

Mrs Marshall

Eyes Down is a comedy starring Paul O'Grady as Ray Temple, the manager of a bingo hall in Liverpool, England called The Rio, although the series was filmed in Rayners Lane in London. Although it had moderate ratings, the programme only lasted for two series until it was cancelled by the BBC in 2004. The show was written by Angela Clarke and directed by Christine Gernon.

6.7

A Certain Justice

Mrs Scully

Inspector Dalgliesh and his team investigate the murder of a top flight lawyer with an abrasive reputation and turbulent private life.

6.1

Onegin

Anisia

A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

6.0

Unconditional Love

Woman in Pub

After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the lover of the dead pop star, and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer.

6.5

Rebecca's Daughters

Sarah Jane

Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.

7.5

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

Audrey

After her husband's death, A woman starts looking for independence.

6.7

House!

Peggy

A small bingo hall is threatened by the opening of the country's largest bingo centre nearby.

5.6

Freebird

Shopkeeper

A Rock and Roll Road Movie Comedy set in Wales

5.3

Very Annie Mary

Gwenllian, Twinge

Set in the fictional village of "Ogw" in the valleys of south-east Wales. After her father Jack suffers a stroke Annie Mary Pugh is forced to take care of him but uses the circumstances to emancipate herself and find the courage to sing once again.

9.5

Dad

Iris Hart

Lucy Gannon (Soldier, Soldier, Bramwell, Trip Trap) has written Dad, the poignant story of Larry James (Richard Briers), a cheery and independent 86-year-old who has been caring single-handedly for his beloved wife Jeannie James (Jean Heywood) who has Alzheimer's disease. When Larry falls and breaks an ankle his life with Jeannie abruptly changes forever. Jeannie is moved into residential care and Larry goes to stay with his son Oliver (Kevin Whately), his daughter-in-law Sandy (Sinead Cusack) and their teenage daughter Millie (Hannah Daniel). But love and consideration wear thin as father and son have to learn to live together all over again.

8.5

The Happy Alcoholic

A stark drama about one man's struggle with alcoholism and the impact this has on his family, friends, and work. His gradual disintegration is a reflection of the decaying mining community around him.

N/A

Once Upon a Time on the Westway

Elderly Woman

On the same day a notorious crime kingpin Jimmy Vincent is released from prison, there is a daring armored car diamond heist of diamonds using his m.o.

10.0

EastEnders: Dot's Story

Gwen

Dot travels to Wales to visit the now very ill woman who she stayed with during World War II.