Hugh Griffith

Born: 1912-05-30

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


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Ben-Hur

as Scheich Ildirim
Released: 1959-11-18

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely...

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Oliver!

as The Magistrate
Released: 1968-09-26

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away...

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Exodus

as Mandria
Released: 1960-12-15

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to...

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Mutiny on the Bounty

as Alexander Smith
Released: 1962-11-08

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit....

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How to Steal a Million

as Charles Bonnet
Released: 1966-07-13

A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.

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Tom Jones

as Squire Western
Released: 1963-08-24

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they...

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The Canterbury Tales

as Sir January
Released: 1972-09-02

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several...

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes

as Rabbi
Released: 1971-05-18

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes...

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Kind Hearts and Coronets

as Lord High Steward
Released: 1949-06-21

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her...

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The Million Pound Note

as Potter
Released: 1954-01-07

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich...

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What?

as Joseph Noblart
Released: 1972-12-07

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa...

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Dr. Phibes Rises Again

as Harry Ambrose
Released: 1972-07-01

The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the...

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Night Train to Munich

as uncredited
Released: 1940-08-31

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague,...

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Cry of the Banshee

as Mickey
Released: 1970-07-22

In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the...

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The Counterfeit Traitor

as Collins
Released: 1962-04-17

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of...

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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

as Sid Larkin
Released: 1980-03-16

An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an...

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Wuthering Heights

as Dr. Kenneth
Released: 1970-06-09

A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors,...

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High School Girl

as Barone di Roccadura
Released: 1974-03-08

A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.

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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

as Mr. Harrison, The Pigman
Released: 1972-02-11

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel"...

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The Poppy Is Also a Flower

as Salah Rahman Khan
Released: 1966-05-20

A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across...

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The Last Remake of Beau Geste

as Judge
Released: 1977-06-15

Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless...

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The Titfield Thunderbolt

as Dan
Released: 1953-03-04

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of...

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Casanova & Co.

as The Caliph
Released: 1977-03-01

While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his...

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The Fixer

as Lebedev
Released: 1968-12-08

Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian...

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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

as O'Shea
Released: 1960-09-04

London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold...

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The Sleeping Tiger

as Inspector Simmons
Released: 1954-06-21

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who...

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Start the Revolution Without Me

as King Louis
Released: 1970-02-04

Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre...

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The Bargee

as Joe Turnbull
Released: 1964-01-01

After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she...

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The Last Days of Dolwyn

as Minister
Released: 1949-04-13

An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Frankland
Released: 1978-08-01

The death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a curse that has followed the Baskerville...

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Gone to Earth

as Andrew Vessons
Released: 1950-11-06

Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in...

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Term of Trial

as O'Hara
Released: 1962-08-16

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir...

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Joseph Andrews

as Squire Western
Released: 1977-03-09

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty...

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So Evil My Love

as Coroner
Released: 1948-08-02

In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a...

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A Run for Your Money

as Huw Price
Released: 1949-11-23

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed...

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The Final Programme

as Professor Hira
Released: 1973-10-04

After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes...

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

as Commodore Roseabove
Released: 1967-02-15

A woman brings her son and husband to a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation....

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The Inspector

as Van der Pink
Released: 1962-05-24

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British...

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Lucky Jim

as Professor Welch
Released: 1957-09-17

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded...

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Laughter in Paradise

as Henry Russell
Released: 1951-06-01

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they...

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London Belongs to Me

as Headlam Fynne
Released: 1948-11-05

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas...

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Luther

as Tetzel
Released: 1974-01-21

One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

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Legend of the Werewolf

as Maestro Pamponi
Released: 1975-08-06

A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows...

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The Three Weird Sisters

as Mabli Hughes
Released: 1948-02-26

Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned...

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The Story on Page One

as Judge Edgar Neilsen
Released: 1959-12-01

An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a...

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Craze

as Solicitor
Released: 1974-05-16

A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African...

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Passage Home

as Pettigrew der Chefingenieur
Released: 1955-03-17

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A...

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The First Gentleman

as John Fisher
Released: 1948-03-15

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

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

as Ibn-el-Rascid
Released: 1967-12-01

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone...

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Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

as Ignazio
Released: 1968-02-08

Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young...

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Hide and Seek

as Wilkins
Released: 1964-06-21

A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a...

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Take Me High

as Sir Harry Cunningham
Released: 1973-12-07

Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant...

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The Galloping Major

as Humbert Temple
Released: 1951-05-07

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake....

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The Sailor from Gibraltar

as Llewellyn
Released: 1967-01-01

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow...

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The Passover Plot

as Caiaphas
Released: 1976-10-29

Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to...

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The Beggar's Opera

as The Beggar
Released: 1953-08-24

Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh...

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The Citadel

as Philip Denny
Released: 1960-02-19

The good doctor is on trial before the British Medical Association Council, if he is found...

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The Joke

as Dr Walden
Released: 1976-05-26

Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his...

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The Good Companions

as Morton Mitcham
Released: 1957-04-22

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

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Grand Slam

as Caradog Lloyd-Evans
Released: 1978-03-17

A group of Welsh rugby fans go over to see Wales play France in the final match of the Six...

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Under Milk Wood

as Captain Cat (voice) (archive sound)
Released: 1992-04-19

A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.

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Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress

as Bensall, the butler
Released: 1949-06-27

An heiress suddenly vanishes! A detective comes to the forlorn mansion of the missing heiress's...

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Now Let Him Go

as Simon Kendall
Released: 1957-09-15

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below...

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Increase and Multiply

as Monsignor Casadei
Released: 1973-03-15

Italian comedy

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Brown Eye, Evil Eye

as Tadeusz Bridges
Released: 1967-01-01

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

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Lights Out

as uncredited
First aired: 1949-07-19

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a...

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Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-03-13

BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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Colonel March of Scotland Yard

as Dr. Ivy
First aired: 1956-02-22

Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room...

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ABC Stage 67

as Herr Hoffman
First aired: 1966-09-14

ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety...

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Quatermass II

as Dr. Leo Pugh
First aired: 1955-10-22

The serial sees Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group being...

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