Hugh Griffith
Acting
Biography
Hugh Griffith was an Oscar-winning Welsh screen, stage and television actor.
Born: May 30, 1912
Place of Birth: Marianglas, Anglesey, Wales, UK
Known For
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 slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
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 mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
How to Steal a Million
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
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 service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
The Inspector
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
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 pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
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 discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
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 attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
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 characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
Filmography
as Captain Cat (voice) (archive sound)
as Sid Larkin
as Frankland
as Caradog Lloyd-Evans
as Judge
as Squire Western
as The Caliph
as Caiaphas
as Dr Walden
as Maestro Pamponi
as Solicitor
as Dr. Walden
as Barone di Roccadura
as Tetzel
as Sir Harry Cunningham
as Professor Hira
as Monsignor Casadei
as Joseph Noblart
as Sir January
as Harry Ambrose
as Mr. Harrison, The Pigman
as Rabbi
as Mickey
as Dr. Kenneth
as King Louis
as Lebedev
as The Magistrate
as Ibn-el-Rascid
as Commodore Roseabove
as Llewellyn
as Herr Hoffman
as Charles Bonnet
as Salah Rahman Khan
as Wilkins
as Joe Turnbull
as Squire Western
as Alexander Smith
as O'Hara
as Van der Pink
as Collins
as Mandria
as Philip Denny
as Judge Edgar Neilsen
as Scheich Ildirim
as Professor Welch
as Simon Kendall
as Morton Mitcham
as Dr. Ivy
as Dr Leo Pugh
as Pettigrew der Chefingenieur
as Inspector Simmons
as Potter
as The Beggar
as Self
as Dan
as Henry Russell
as Humbert Temple
as Andrew Vessons
as Huw Price
as Bensall, the butler
as Lord High Steward
as Minister
as Headlam Fynne
as Coroner
as John Fisher
as Mabli Hughes