Acting

Glyn Jones

Born 1931-04-27 · Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Simply Metric poster
NR

A guide to going metric from the Central Office of Information on behalf of the Metrication Board.

Simply Metric

1973

Doctor Who: The Space Museum poster
6.5

On the planet Xeros, the TARDIS crew discover their own future selves frozen in time as exhibits in a galactic museum and must avert this potential future.

Doctor Who: The Space Museum

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Billy the Kid

1968

Bindle (One of Them Days) poster
6.7

Based on the book of Herbert Jenkins, a comedy about a accident prone furniture remover and his mate.

Bindle (One of Them Days)

1966

The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket poster
NR

An errant cricket ball causes mayhem as the gang try to recover it.

The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket

1969

The Magnificent Six and ½: Bob-a-Job poster
NR

The gang help in the collections for a youth club, by doing odd jobs around the neighborhood and getting into trouble at the same time.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Bob-a-Job

1968

The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee Had a Little Ape poster
NR

Toby tries on a dummy ape skin which is intended for the local jumble sale, and is mistaken for a real ape which has escaped from a travelling circus. Peewee manages to befriend the real ape by giving him a bunch of bananas.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee Had a Little Ape

1969

The Magnificent Six and ½: Ghosts and Ghoulies poster
6.0

Whizz and Peewee would like to join the club, but first they must spend an hour in a haunted house.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Ghosts and Ghoulies

1968

The Magnificent Six and ½: The Astronoughts poster
NR

Whizz converts an old boiler into a spaceship. However a scrap metal dealer has already bought it and hauls it away by crane with the Gang inside. Naturally enough they believe they are in outer space, and Dumbo takes a space walk.

The Magnificent Six and ½: The Astronoughts

1969

The Magnificent Six and ½: Kontiki Kids poster
NR

The gang build a raft to ferry them across a canal, with just one problem; getting the raft to the canal.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Kontiki Kids

1968

The Magnificent Six and ½: A Good Deed in Time poster
NR

When the Gang decide to be helpful, something is bound to go wrong. They borrow a ladder unknowingly from a decorator, who attempts to climb out of the window, not realising that his ladder has gone!

The Magnificent Six and ½: A Good Deed in Time

1969

Rail Report 13: On Track for the Eighties poster
5.5

A review of innovation and development within BR and its businesses, including: modernisation of freight facilities and service to new companies; progress of the Bedford/St. Pancras electrification project; paved track and permanent way maintenance; Sealink's "Galloway Princess"; Seaspeed's SRN4; and the Research department's magnetically levitated vehicle. For general showing.

Rail Report 13: On Track for the Eighties

1980

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The achievements of BREL - British Rail Engineering Limited - are celebrated in this promotional film looking at two of the company's 13 workshops, at Horwich in Lancashire and Crewe, in which locomotives and carriages are built for British Rail and companies overseas.

The Train Makers

1981

Five in Millions poster
NR

Captures the work of the British Rail Parcel Service, illustrating the story of five different consignments over a twenty-four hour period. These are: a schoolboy in Cheshire being sent a new bicycle; a housewife in Rhondda Valley awaiting the arrival of a new vacuum cleaner; a man in Lincoln expecting an insurance cheque; a tourist in Cornwall waiting for his daily newspaper to arrive at his hotel; and a research scientist who urgently needs some equipment in Manchester.

Five in Millions

1978

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NR

The advantages and pleasures of crossing the channel by Hovercraft. In this film a sales executive, with his car and engineering samples, travels to Lille for a business appointment; and a family goes to Paris for a holiday. The former's journey is via Dover/Calais, and the latter's via Dover/Boulogne. Both demonstrate the benefits of using this modern, speedy method of reaching Europe. An impressionistic look at the hovercraft journey across the channel with no commentary, using the same footage was used to produce Seaspeed Hovercraft.

The Seaspeed Express

1980

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NR

South Wales is an area of great natural beauty - from the Brecon Beacons in the north of the area to the rugged coastline of Pembrokeshire in the south. It is a land of attractive market towns and ancient castles, of hill and forest landscapes. This film covers many aspects of life in a region whose abundant attractions for the holidaymaker are made readily accessible by rail and road.

The Beacons and Beyond

1979

No artwork available
NR

South Wales is an area of great natural beauty - from the Brecon Beacons in the north of the area to the rugged coastline of Pembrokeshire in the south. It is a land of attractive market towns and ancient castles, of hill and forest landscapes. This film covers many aspects of life in a region whose abundant attractions for the holidaymaker are made readily accessible by rail and road.

The Beacons and Beyond

1979