
Directing
Endaf Emlyn
Born
1944-07-31 (82)
Place of birth
Bangor, Caernarfonshire, Wales
Known for
Directing
Credits
14 titles
Endaf Emlyn is a Welsh musician, film, and television director. Emlyn was born in Bangor, Caernarfonshire, Wales. He was brought up in Pwllheli and played violin in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales alongside Karl Jenkins and John Cale. Emlyn trained initially as a teacher but shortly decided to pursue a career in the media instead. Upon the founding of Harlech Television in May 1968, he became one of the franchise's first four announcers as host of the quiz show Up to Date. He also worked as a script-writer, but had a simultaneous career as a musician. He began his television career as a scriptwriter and publisher with HTV, and then a presenter on some of the first Welsh language pop …
Known for
NRLooking at how the arrival of the television affected a rural community in North Wales in the 1950s.
The Storms of August
1988
Sera and her little sister Carys come to the city to look for work. Sam Crosby, an odd man, offers them work and accommodation and soon they are in the grip of very dangerous men. Who is Sam? What is Mordecai's plan? And the biggest question of all - will there be Christmas this year?
The Man Who Stole Christmas
1985
Twenty year-old student Peter Fraiman falls asleep in 1975 a happy man, having asked his girlfriend to marry him. But when he wakes up, it's 1995; he has a wife he doesn't recognise and two children. Unable to remember anything of the intervening twenty years, he feels he has jumped forward in time. He goes in search of his former girlfriend and is forced to face the fact that he has become a person he never expected to be.
A Relative Stranger
1996
A quirky, TV quasi-Western set in Patagonia.
Gaucho
1983
7.5After many years in prison a man returns to his town of birth. The memories from his childhood, which culminate in the inexplicable murder of a young girl, are portrayed through flashbacks. The man walks through the town, the same way he walked as a boy…
One Full Moon
1991
4.7Seven 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.
Leaving Lenin
1994
Behind the camera
NRLooking at how the arrival of the television affected a rural community in North Wales in the 1950s.
The Storms of August
1988
NRLooking at how the arrival of the television affected a rural community in North Wales in the 1950s.
The Storms of August
1988
Sera and her little sister Carys come to the city to look for work. Sam Crosby, an odd man, offers them work and accommodation and soon they are in the grip of very dangerous men. Who is Sam? What is Mordecai's plan? And the biggest question of all - will there be Christmas this year?
The Man Who Stole Christmas
1985
Sera and her little sister Carys come to the city to look for work. Sam Crosby, an odd man, offers them work and accommodation and soon they are in the grip of very dangerous men. Who is Sam? What is Mordecai's plan? And the biggest question of all - will there be Christmas this year?
The Man Who Stole Christmas
1985
Twenty year-old student Peter Fraiman falls asleep in 1975 a happy man, having asked his girlfriend to marry him. But when he wakes up, it's 1995; he has a wife he doesn't recognise and two children. Unable to remember anything of the intervening twenty years, he feels he has jumped forward in time. He goes in search of his former girlfriend and is forced to face the fact that he has become a person he never expected to be.
A Relative Stranger
1996
A quirky, TV quasi-Western set in Patagonia.
Gaucho
1983
7.5After many years in prison a man returns to his town of birth. The memories from his childhood, which culminate in the inexplicable murder of a young girl, are portrayed through flashbacks. The man walks through the town, the same way he walked as a boy…
One Full Moon
1991
7.5After many years in prison a man returns to his town of birth. The memories from his childhood, which culminate in the inexplicable murder of a young girl, are portrayed through flashbacks. The man walks through the town, the same way he walked as a boy…
One Full Moon
1991
4.7Seven 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.
Leaving Lenin
1994
4.7Seven 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.
Leaving Lenin
1994
Shot entirely in Welsh, Endaf Emlyn's wry and gentle film captures the magic and innocence of a young boy's imaginative world as he grapples with demons that haunt his family life. Set against the wild, windswept backdrop of the Welsh coast, The Making of Maps charts Griff's journey into adolescence and his attempts to cope with the strife with in his own family. Pulled in different directions by his philandering father, reclusive mother and unloved sister, he tries to learn the secret that eats away at the fabric of his family life. His mother ran a dance academy, but during a picnic the school's star pupil, the beautiful, ethereal Alis, vanished. Afterward, Griff's mother took to her bed, fearful of leaving her darkened room. Griff's way of dealing with his life is to draw maps outlining his own attempts to comprehend a situation that everyone seems to want to forget. -Piers Handling
The Making of Maps
1995
Shot entirely in Welsh, Endaf Emlyn's wry and gentle film captures the magic and innocence of a young boy's imaginative world as he grapples with demons that haunt his family life. Set against the wild, windswept backdrop of the Welsh coast, The Making of Maps charts Griff's journey into adolescence and his attempts to cope with the strife with in his own family. Pulled in different directions by his philandering father, reclusive mother and unloved sister, he tries to learn the secret that eats away at the fabric of his family life. His mother ran a dance academy, but during a picnic the school's star pupil, the beautiful, ethereal Alis, vanished. Afterward, Griff's mother took to her bed, fearful of leaving her darkened room. Griff's way of dealing with his life is to draw maps outlining his own attempts to comprehend a situation that everyone seems to want to forget. -Piers Handling
The Making of Maps
1995
NRA film about a twelve-year-old girl who has the opportunity to go back in time with the help of the family's big old clock.
The Clock
1986
NRA film about a twelve-year-old girl who has the opportunity to go back in time with the help of the family's big old clock.
The Clock
1986
