Hugh Griffith

AKA: Hugh Emrys Griffith, Хью Гриффит
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1912-05-30

Marianglas, Anglesey, Wales, UK

Biography

Hugh Griffith was an Oscar-winning Welsh screen, stage and television actor.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {77}

Scheich Ildirim

1959-11-18 7.89

Ben-Hur

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into s ...
Genre :History, Drama, Adventure

Charles Bonnet

1966-07-13 7.498

How to Steal a Million

A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Romance

Mandria

1960-12-15 6.688

Exodus

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He fa ...
Genre :Drama, War

Llewellyn

1967-01-01 5.7

The Sailor from Gibraltar

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Adventure

The Caliph

1977-03-01 3.5

Casanova & Co.

While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving ...
Genre :Comedy

Alexander Smith

1962-11-08 7.031

Mutiny on the Bounty

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict disc ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, History

Sir January

1972-09-02 6.1

The Canterbury Tales

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories. ...
Genre :Comedy, History, Drama

Mickey

1970-07-22 5.3

Cry of the Banshee

In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her o ...
Genre :Horror

Squire Western

1963-08-24 5.9

Tom Jones

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love? ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure, History, Romance

Mr. Harrison, The Pigman

1972-02-11 6.127

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist. ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller

Dan

1953-03-04 7

The Titfield Thunderbolt

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attr ...
Genre :Comedy

Philip Denny

1960-02-19 0

The Citadel

The good doctor is on trial before the British Medical Association Council, if he is found guilty, he will no longer be allowed to practice medicine. The story unfolds through flashbacks which depict ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Maestro Pamponi

1975-08-06 5.167

Legend of the Werewolf

A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprote ...
Genre :Horror

Professor Hira

1973-10-04 5.1

The Final Programme

Returning from Lapland, where he buried his father, a renowned scientist, Jerry Cornelius comes back to London with the firm intention of taking revenge on his brother Frank and snatching his beloved ...
Genre :Thriller, Science Fiction, Comedy

Commodore Roseabove

1967-02-15 4.375

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad

A woman brings her son and husband to a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead for quite some time, and his wife had him stuffed an ...
Genre :Comedy

Collins

1962-04-13 6.42

The Counterfeit Traitor

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany. ...
Genre :War, Thriller, Drama

Huw Price

1949-11-23 6

A Run for Your Money

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adven ...
Genre :Comedy

Judge Edgar Neilsen

1959-12-01 4.3

The Story on Page One

An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story. ...
Genre :Drama

The Magistrate

1968-09-26 7

Oliver!

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpo ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Rabbi

1971-05-18 6.9

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies. ...
Genre :Horror, Comedy

Coroner

1948-08-02 6.4

So Evil My Love

In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Henry Russell

1951-06-01 6.4

Laughter in Paradise

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This ...
Genre :Comedy

Simon Kendall

1957-09-15 0

Now Let Him Go

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

King Louis

1970-02-04 5.786

Start the Revolution Without Me

Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. ...
Genre :Comedy, History

Joseph Noblart

1972-12-07 5.4

What?

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right. ...
Genre :Comedy

Joe Turnbull

1964-04-23 6.9

The Bargee

After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks - causing barges to pile up in every direction until the g ...
Genre :Comedy

O'Hara

1962-08-16 5.9

Term of Trial

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shir ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector Simmons

1954-06-21 5.5

The Sleeping Tiger

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

O'Shea

1960-09-04 6.1

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their leader, discovers the bank's weak spot: an old for ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Lebedev

1968-12-08 6

The Fixer

Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gen ...
Genre :Drama

Andrew Vessons

1950-11-06 6.2

Gone to Earth

Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in particular, her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin, a fox hunting squire who vies for her affe ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Dr. Kenneth

1970-06-09 6.3

Wuthering Heights

A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Solicitor

1974-05-16 4.881

Craze

A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up hum ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller

(voice)

1950-02-06 6

Scrapbook for 1933

A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933. ...
Genre :Documentary

Caiaphas

1976-10-29 3.8

The Passover Plot

Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the Roman occupation of Palestine. ...
Genre :Drama

Headlam Fynne

1948-11-05 7

London Belongs to Me

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of ...
Genre :Drama

Salah Rahman Khan

1966-05-20 5.8

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Minister

1949-04-13 6.8

The Last Days of Dolwyn

An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up. ...
Genre :Drama

Caradog Lloyd-Evans

1978-03-17 4.786

Grand Slam

A group of Welsh rugby union fans go over to see Wales play France in the final match of the Six Nations tournament. ...
Genre :Comedy

Wilkins

1964-06-21 6

Hide and Seek

A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the pro ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Humbert Temple

1951-05-07 6

The Galloping Major

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper. ...
Genre :Comedy

Van der Pink

1962-05-24 7.05

The Inspector

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Sir Harry Cunningham

1973-12-07 4.5

Take Me High

Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant bank, but even his happy-go-lucky attitude is severely jolted when he is sent to Birmingham instead of his p ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

1940-08-31 7.28

Night Train to Munich

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the se ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, War

Squire Western

1977-03-09 4.818

Joseph Andrews

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Mabli Hughes

1948-02-26 7

The Three Weird Sisters

Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Pettigrew der Chefingenieur

1955-03-17 5.6

Passage Home

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstiti ...
Genre :Drama

Bensall, the butler

1949-06-27 6.4

Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress

An heiress suddenly vanishes! A detective comes to the forlorn mansion of the missing heiress's wheel-chair-ridden uncle to discover the secret behind the disappearance. ...
Genre :Mystery

Morton Mitcham

1957-04-22 0

The Good Companions

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Professor Welch

1957-09-17 5.354

Lucky Jim

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled w ...
Genre :Comedy

The Beggar

1953-08-24 4.1

The Beggar's Opera

Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar. ...
Genre :History, Crime, Music

Harry Ambrose

1972-07-01 6.3

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife, which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways. ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Ibn-el-Rascid

1967-12-01 3.833

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades. ...
Genre :Romance, Adventure, Comedy

Lord High Steward

1949-06-21 7.6

Kind Hearts and Coronets

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mo ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Monsignor Casadei

1973-03-15 1

Increase and Multiply

Italian comedy ...
Genre :Comedy

John Fisher

1948-03-15 6

The First Gentleman

The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. ...
Genre :History

Potter

1954-01-07 6.847

The Million Pound Note

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds th ...
Genre :Comedy

Bit

1940-12-06 6

Neutral Port

A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy. ...
Genre :War, Action, Drama

Barone di Roccadura

1974-03-08 4.278

High School Girl

A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Tetzel

1974-01-21 5.6

Luther

A 16th-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart. ...
Genre :Drama

Sid Larkin

1980-03-16 6.1

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy, Action

Ignazio

1968-02-08 6

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky ...
Genre :Comedy

Tadeusz Bridges

1967-01-01 0

Brown Eye, Evil Eye

The story of the strange friendship between a seventy-year-old man and a six-year-old girl. ...
Genre :Drama

Frankland

1978-08-01 4.2

The Hound of the Baskervilles

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Scrooge

1955-12-21 0

The Merry Christmas

Musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol. ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Music

Judge

1977-06-15 5.533

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Comedy

Captain Cat (voice) (archive sound)

1992-04-19 4

Under Milk Wood

A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Animation, Horror

Dr Walden

1976-05-26 0

The Joke

Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his victims. takes him seriously, trouble ensues. ...
Genre :

Dr Leo Pugh

1955-10-22 6.2

Quatermass II

Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group is sought to examine strange meteorite showers. His investigations lead to his uncovering a conspiracy involving alien infiltratio ...
Genre :Drama

Man with Cello

1950-10-02 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Herr Hoffman

1966-09-14 6.2

ABC Stage 67

ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on Septembe ...
Genre :Drama, Documentary

1965-03-02 0

The Walrus And The Carpenter

Genre :

1949-07-19 5.75

Lights Out

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime, Drama, Reality

Dr. Ivy

1956-02-22 7.3

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural. ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1953-03-19 6.961

The Oscars

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is ...
Genre :

Constantine

1950-10-02 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Dr. Walden

1974-03-13 7

Playhouse

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