Mike Hayward

Acting
Abertillery, Wales, UK

Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles

#1Bergerac

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Gareth

6.8 / 10
Drama

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

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#2Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Gareth

7.0 / 10
Drama

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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#3The Play on One

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Yori

6.0 / 10
Drama

A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.

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#4Strangers

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Bri Williams

7.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

Strangers is a 1978–82 ITV police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith, based on characters created by Kenneth Royce in his novel series and subsequent 1977–78 television adaptation The XYY Man. Don Henderson and Dennis Blanch reprise their roles, respectively, of Detective Sergeant (DS) George Bulman and Detective Constable (DC) Derek Willis. A group of police officers are brought together from across the country to the north of England. There, the fact that they're not well-known gives them the advantage to infiltrate where a more familiar local detective could not. Despite being based around a comparatively small team of detectives, a regular feature in its early years is that few episodes feature the entire team, with most using just two or three regulars in any major role.

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#5Travelling Man

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Geoff

6.5 / 10
CrimeDrama

After completing a two-year prison sentence for a bribe he didn't take, former DI Alan Lomax wants answers. With at least one luxury left - a narrowboat, and it's on the canals, among the day trippers and travellers, that he means to seek revenge. Not an easy task for an ex-detective isolated on the wrong side of the law.

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#6This Life

Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes as Leonard Ryder

7.3 / 10
Drama

Five aspiring lawyers are aiming for the top - but behind the scenes they're a mess of love, drugs and excess.

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#7Campion

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as P.C. Baker

6.3 / 10
MysteryDramaComedy

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.

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#8Mapp & Lucia

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Newsagent

6.3 / 10
Comedy

Mapp & Lucia is a British television comedy, based on E. F. Benson's novels, beginning with the eponymous 1931 entry for series 1, with Lucia's Progress and Trouble for Lucia for series 2. Mrs Emmeline Lucas (nicknamed Lucia) has just moved to the small English town of Tilling where she comes into conflict with the social ambitions of Miss Elizabeth Mapp. Until now, Miss Mapp has led (and controlled) the social life of Tilling, but that was before they met Lucia.

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#9Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Taxi Driver

5.7 / 10
Drama

Mr. Palfrey is a mild-mannered, but highly skilled counter-espionage agent employed by a small, unnamed department within British intelligence. He and his team tackle complex cases, often involving government cover-ups and internal affairs.

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#10The Wicked Lady

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Man at Inn

4.9 / 10
DramaAdventure

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.

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#11Running Scared

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Teacher

6.7 / 10
KidsDrama

Running Scared is a British television children's drama serial produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC 1 in 1986, based on the Bernard Ashley novel and is set in Woolwich with the Woolwich Ferry featuring in a key scene. A gritty series, Running Scared deals with a teenage girl, Paula, whose life is put at risk when she uncovers evidence that could put a local criminal gang leader behind bars. The series is notable for its use of the then recently released Kate Bush pop song Running Up That Hill as its main theme tune.

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#12Heartland

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Yori

6.5 / 10
DramaTV Movie

This "Play on One" story depicts Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told they must cut back on milk production and slaughter some of the herd. The community launches a campaign against the quotas, but Jack takes the law into his own hands.

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#13Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m as Bryn

8.0 / 10
ComedyTV Movie

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.

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#14King Lear

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as First Servant

10.0 / 10
Drama

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

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#15The Button Man

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Gareth

8.8 / 10

' Whatever you think of me doesn't change what you are. Rabble who've heard of socialism and think it's ten pints a night. Go on, vote me out ...'

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#16Nineteen96

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Supt. Williams

8.8 / 10
DramaThrillerTV Movie

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

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