Hugh Griffith

Actor May 30 (died age 67) Marianglas, Anglesey, Wales, UK 1940–1992 (52 year career)

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Biography

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

Known For

Film

Ben-Hur

Scheich Ildirim

Film

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Lord High Steward

Film

How to Steal a Million

Charles Bonnet

Film

Oliver!

The Magistrate

Film

Mutiny on the Bounty

Alexander Smith

Film

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Rabbi

Film

Exodus

Mandria

Film

The Canterbury Tales

Sir January

Filmography

Acting (77)

Movies (68)

Under Milk Wood

1992

as Captain Cat (voice) (archive sound)

4.0

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

1980

as Sid Larkin

6.1

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1978

as Frankland

4.3

Grand Slam

1978

as Caradog Lloyd-Evans

4.8

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

as Judge

Casanova & Co.

as The Caliph

Joseph Andrews

as Squire Western

The Joke

as Dr Walden

The Passover Plot

1976

as Caiaphas

3.8

Legend of the Werewolf

as Maestro Pamponi

Craze

as Solicitor

Luther

as Tetzel

High School Girl

as Barone di Roccadura

The Final Programme

as Professor Hira

Take Me High

as Sir Harry Cunningham

4.5

Increase and Multiply

as Monsignor Casadei

The Canterbury Tales

as Sir January

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

as Harry Ambrose

What?

as Joseph Noblart

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

1972

as Mr. Harrison, The Pigman

6.1

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

as Rabbi

Wuthering Heights

as Dr. Kenneth

Cry of the Banshee

as Mickey

Start the Revolution Without Me

as King Louis

Oliver!

as The Magistrate

The Fixer

as Lebedev

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

1968

as Ignazio

6.0

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

1967

as Ibn-el-Rascid

3.9

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

1967

as Commodore Roseabove

4.4

Brown Eye, Evil Eye

1967

as Tadeusz Bridges

The Sailor from Gibraltar

1967

as Llewellyn

5.7

How to Steal a Million

1966

as Charles Bonnet

7.5

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

as Salah Rahman Khan

The Bargee

as Joe Turnbull

Hide and Seek

as Wilkins

Tom Jones

as Squire Western

Mutiny on the Bounty

as Alexander Smith

Term of Trial

as O'Hara

The Inspector

as Van der Pink

The Counterfeit Traitor

as Collins

Exodus

as Mandria

The Citadel

as Philip Denny

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

as O'Shea

Ben-Hur

as Scheich Ildirim

The Story on Page One

1959

as Judge Edgar Neilsen

Lucky Jim

as Professor Welch

The Good Companions

as Morton Mitcham

Now Let Him Go

1957

as Simon Kendall

The Merry Christmas

1955

as Scrooge

Passage Home

1955

as Pettigrew der Chefingenieur

5.6

The Million Pound Note

as Potter

The Sleeping Tiger

as Inspector Simmons

The Titfield Thunderbolt

as Dan

The Beggar's Opera

as The Beggar

Laughter in Paradise

as Henry Russell

The Galloping Major

as Humbert Temple

Gone to Earth

as Andrew Vessons

Scrapbook for 1933

as (voice)

Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949

as Lord High Steward

7.6

Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress

1949

as Bensall, the butler

6.2

A Run for Your Money

1949

as Huw Price

6.0

The Last Days of Dolwyn

as Minister

The First Gentleman

as John Fisher

So Evil My Love

as Coroner

The Three Weird Sisters

as Mabli Hughes

London Belongs to Me

as Headlam Fynne

Night Train to Munich

Neutral Port

as Bit

Television (9)

Playhouse

as Dr. Walden

ABC Stage 67

as Herr Hoffman

The Walrus And The Carpenter

1965

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

as Dr. Ivy

Armchair Theatre

as Simon Kendall

Quatermass II

as Dr Leo Pugh

The Oscars

as Self

Lux Video Theatre

as Man with Cello

Lights Out