
Birthday:
03-12-1975
(49 years)
Birthplace:
Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Biography
Richard Harrington (born 12 March 1975 in Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil) is a Welsh actor of stage and screen. He stars as DCI Richard Matthias in the acclaimed Welsh drama "Hinterland"/"Y Gwyll".
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Leaving Lenin
Act like Charlie
event1994
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Seven teenagers and three teachers from a Welsh school visit Russia in a bid to rediscover themselves. On the overnight sleeper service to St Petersburg the students get separated from the teachers, which allows the students ample scope for rediscovery.
The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
Act like Albert Lewis
event2021 star_border 6.2
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A journey through C.S. Lewis’ early life and his dramatic conversion story about his inner conflict.
Havoc
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After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.
Hope Eternal
Act like Evan
event2008 star_border 7.5
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After the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo makes a pilgrimage to Wales to sprinkle his ashes on the turf of the Millennium Stadium.
Little Munchkin
Act like Mr. Jones
event2011
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A well-to-do couple goes to an orphanage to adopt a child, but will they find one who fits their persnickety lifestyle?
Mathilde
Act like Babyface
event2006
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A young girl attempts to kill a UN peacekeeper after the war in Croatia, leading to an investigation into the circumstances of their first meeting.
Nineteen96
Act like Kit Davis
event1989
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Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers a complex web of deceit and corruption
Creepy Pasta Salad
event2019 star_border 1
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Anxious citizens of Wales survive Halloween, compulsory fancy dress, the endless drudgery of being put on hold and the apocalypse (sort of).
Rehab
Act like Powell
event2003
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TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.
Royal Wives at War
Act like Narrator
event2016
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The Queen Mother and Wallis Simpson look back at the dramatic events of 1936, which led to King Edward Vlll giving up the throne for the woman he loved.
Just Jim
Act like Headmaster
event2015 star_border 5.7
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In a small Welsh town where people talk to themselves we meet Jim, a lonely teenager who is given the chance to increase his popularity when a cool American kid moves in next door. Written and directed by Craig Roberts, who also plays the lead role.
Elfie Hopkins
Act like Timothy Jenkins
event2012 star_border 5.1
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An aspiring teen detective stumbles into her first real case, when investigating the mysterious new family in her neighborhood.
Daddy's Girl
Act like Stephen
event2006 star_border 4.2
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Nina, a troubled teen, is fixed on an uninterrupted feast of destruction when she’s forced to confront her immortality and twisted blood lust. Trapped between light and dark, psychosis and reality, the living and the dead, she’ll stop at nothing to satiate her CRAVINGS. Every addiction has a price, and usually it’s the cost of a life. Her price will be life too…but never her own.
Deadly Instincts
Act like Jack
event1997 star_border 4.3
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It's an invasion of the most personal and terrifying kind. When a meteorite crash lands onto a Boston college campus and an alien beast is released, only one man understands its mission to mate. From the depths of an all girls college, the grotesque monster stalks his prey in a cat-and-mouse chase until the final conflict where only one species can survive.
Under Milk Wood
Act like Neighbour
event2014 star_border 6.1
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An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with National Theatre Wales, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth. The plot reveals the innermost thoughts of the residents of the small, Welsh fishing village Llareggub as it delves into the dreams of various townspeople including blind sailor Captain Cat, who is haunted by visions of drowned shipmates, Mog Edwards and Myfanwy Price, who dream of each other, and Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard, who dreams of her former husbands.
The Contractor
Act like Terry Winchell
event2007 star_border 5.5
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Former CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
The Proposition
Act like Evan
event1996 star_border 3.5
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In early 19th century Wales, Catherine Morgan, a widow with two daughters, must endure the bumpy road to a distant market in order to sell her cattle to save her farm and family.
Care
Act like Tony Collins
event2000 star_border 5
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A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.
Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War
Act like Himself
event2017
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Richard Harrington, star of Hinterland and Poldark, sets out to trace the journey of his grandfather, who went to Spain 80 years ago to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. In this journey of self-discovery Harrington travels from Wales, through Paris and across the Pyrenees into Spain, uncovering the reasons for his own lack of political motivation and discovering a story that kick-starts his own political awakening.
Score
Act like Neil
event2001
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Comedy about a Sunday League football team who win the Lottery.
Gwen
Act like Edward Morris
event2018 star_border 5.4
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A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
Last Summer
Act like Dai Hop
event2018 star_border 6.7
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During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
The All Together
Act like Jerry Davies
event2007 star_border 5.1
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With a house to sell and no time to be there in person, overworked TV producer Chris Ashworth is forced to leave his incompetent flatmate Bob to show real estate agents around the property. Knowing that Bob is not the most attentive flatmate, Chris tells him to show anyone that calls inside. When Chris finally returns home he finds that Bob has taken him at his word, literally. With four estate agents, some Jehovah's Witnesses, an incontinent American, a corpse and two armed gangsters, Chris's world may look like its falling in, but there's worse to come.
House of America
Act like Cat
event1997 star_border 5
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"House of America" is a 1997 film directed by Marc Evans. The film, set in a depressed Welsh mining town, centres on a dysfunctional family unit of brothers Boyo and Sid, their sister Gwenny and their controlling mother. The film tackles issues such as Welsh identity, its need for indigenous heroes and the nation's perceived inferiority complex.
Fatigue - Don't play with the fire
Act like Hurley
event2005 star_border 3
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Welcome to the worlds most dangerous job.
Bitter Sky
Act like Roy
event2019
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In the Welsh wilderness a young girl must break away from the coercive control of her adopted father, reluctantly befriending a lad from the local scrapyard.
Fisherman's Friends: One and All
Act like Morgan Jenkins
event2022 star_border 6.4
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Following the unexpected success of the band’s debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues”, we re-join them almost a year later, struggling with the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame, second album syndrome, and performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.
Dafydd
Act like Dafydd
event1995 star_border 1
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A young gay hustler from South Wales, Dafydd is working in Amsterdam where he meets David, a music lecturer also from Wales. Two kindred spirits in a foreign land. Originally aired as episode 2, series 3, of the television program "Wales Playhouse".
Bleak House
Act like Allan Woodcourt (15 ep.)
event2005 star_border 8.2
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The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond imagination if it can ever be brought to a conclusion. As Tulkinghorn digs deeper into Lady Dedlock's past, he unearths a secret that will change their lives forever, and which is almost as astounding as the final outcome of the Jarndyce case.
Holby Blue
Act like Luke French (20 ep.)
event2007 star_border 7.1
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The police force at Holby South is tasked with the toughest job yet. Not only are they fighting the usual crime with drug offenders and gang members, but today they are faced with the threat of terrorism on their own soil. A Spin off from Holby City and Casualty.
Five Days
Act like Daf Parry (10 ep.)
event2007 star_border 5.7
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Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
Fflam
Act like Beds (1 ep.)
event2021
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A contemporary story of passion and grief that raises the question of whether rekindling an old flame will result in fingers being burnt.
Hinterland
Act like DCI Tom Mathias (24 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.3
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Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how you look.
Steeltown Murders
Act like Colin Dark (4 ep.)
event2023 star_border 7.1
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The hunt to catch the killer of three young women in the Port Talbot area in 1973 and the remarkable story of how - in the first case of its kind - the mystery was solved almost 30 years later using pioneering DNA evidence. Contrasting the policing methods of the 1970s with the forensic breakthroughs of the early 2000s, the series portrays a town dealing with the repercussions of an unsolved case three decades on, and asks if justice can ever truly be found.
Father Brown
Act like Benedict Northam (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.5
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Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
Oliver's Travels
(1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 6
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Oliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan Bates, Sinéad Cusack, Bill Paterson, and Miles Anderson. It first aired in the UK in 1995.
Bates plays the titular Oliver, a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolves to make use of his new wealth of free time by going to visit his favourite crossword compiler, 'Aristotle', with whom he has corresponded but whom he has never met. When he arrives, however, he finds Aristotle's house has been ransacked and its occupant has departed for parts unknown, and he sets out to discover why.
Stella
(1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 7.1
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Ruth Jones stars as a 40-something mum juggling the ups and downs of family life amid the chaos of her eccentric friends, relatives and children's fathers.
Hustle
Act like Sam Richards (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 7.6
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A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
Missing
(1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 1.5
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DS Mary Jane Croft runs the under-resourced Missing Persons Unit.
Sold
(1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 1
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Sold is a British comedy drama television series produced by Touchpaper Television for ITV. The series stars Kris Marshall and Bryan Dick as Matt and Danny, employees of Colubrines Estate Agents. It is written by Steve Coombes and was broadcast between 15 November and 20 December 2007.
Lark Rise to Candleford
Act like Gabriel Cochrane (6 ep.)
event2008 star_border 8.3
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Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.
A Mind to Kill
(3 ep.)
event1994
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A Mind to Kill is a police detective series set in Wales, UK. It was developed from a 1991 pilot which starred Philip Madoc as DCI Bain, and Hywel Bennett. The series ran from 1994 to 2004 and first aired as Yr Heliwr on S4C, the Welsh language TV channel, before being broadcast on the UK Network channel, Channel 5. The series was filmed in English and in Welsh, with each scene being shot first in one language and then in the other. It has since been dubbed into more than a dozen languages and shown all over the world. The 21 episodes have been divided into 3 series which are now available on DVD. The pilot episode is also available on DVD.
Civvies
(1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 7.7
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Former soldiers in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment struggle to come to terms with civilian life after leaving the army.
The Chelsea Detective
Act like Rory Fisk (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.4
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Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a local bookshop owner, Max is a far cry from the affluent elite whose crimes he'll help solve along with D.C. Priya Shamsie.
Requiem
Act like Aron Morgan (6 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.3
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In 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small Welsh village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of rising cello star Matilda Gray commits suicide, without apparent reason. Among her possessions, Matilda discovers tantalising evidence, linking her mother to the Welsh girl's disappearance all those years ago.
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
Act like Thomas Percy (2 ep.)
event2004 star_border 6.2
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Mini series depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.
Death in Paradise
Act like Bryn Williams (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.5
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A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
Spooks
Act like Will North (6 ep.)
event2002 star_border 7.6
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Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
On the Edge
Act like DI Nolan (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7
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Drama anthology championing new film-making talent that serves up a raw slice of real life in modern Britain.
The Crown
Act like Fred Phillips (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 8.2
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The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.
The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
Midsomer Murders
Act like Leo Fincher (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 7.5
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The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Poldark
Act like Captain Blamey (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.8
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Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.
Gangs of London
Act like Mal (2 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7.9
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When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.
Land Girls
Act like Adam Blackfield (2 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.8
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The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
Endeavour
Act like Dr. Dai Ferman (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 8.1
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The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
McDonald & Dodds
Act like Lenny Wood (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7.6
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Two detectives, DCI McDonald and DS Dodds, who seemingly have nothing in common, are thrown together and forge a rumbustious friendship and entertaining partnership.
The One That Got Away
Act like DS Rick Sheldon (6 ep.)
event2024 star_border 5
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The shocking murder of a nurse opens old wounds in a small-town community, throwing a historic conviction into doubt, raising the horrifying prospect of a copycat killer and reuniting two former lovers tasked with finding the killer.
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