Hugh Griffith

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Biography

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

Known For

Ben-Hur

Scheich Ildirim

How to Steal a Million

Charles Bonnet

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Lord High Steward

Oliver!

The Magistrate

Mutiny on the Bounty

Alexander Smith

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Rabbi

Tom Jones

Squire Western

The Canterbury Tales

Sir January

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1992	Under Milk Wood MOVIE	Captain Cat (voice) (archive sound)
1980	A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square MOVIE	Sid Larkin
1978	The Hound of the Baskervilles MOVIE	Frankland
1978	Grand Slam MOVIE	Caradog Lloyd-Evans
1977	The Last Remake of Beau Geste MOVIE	Judge
1977	Joseph Andrews MOVIE	Squire Western
1977	Casanova & Co. MOVIE	The Caliph
1976	The Passover Plot MOVIE	Caiaphas
1976	The Joke MOVIE	Dr Walden
1975	Legend of the Werewolf MOVIE	Maestro Pamponi
1974	Craze MOVIE	Solicitor
1974	Playhouse TV	Dr. Walden
1974	High School Girl MOVIE	Barone di Roccadura
1974	Luther MOVIE	Tetzel
1973	Take Me High MOVIE	Sir Harry Cunningham
1973	The Final Programme MOVIE	Professor Hira
1973	Increase and Multiply MOVIE	Monsignor Casadei
1972	What? MOVIE	Joseph Noblart
1972	The Canterbury Tales MOVIE	Sir January
1972	Dr. Phibes Rises Again MOVIE	Harry Ambrose
1972	Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? MOVIE	Mr. Harrison, The Pigman
1971	The Abominable Dr. Phibes MOVIE	Rabbi
1970	Cry of the Banshee MOVIE	Mickey
1970	Wuthering Heights MOVIE	Dr. Kenneth
1970	Start the Revolution Without Me MOVIE	King Louis
1968	The Fixer MOVIE	Lebedev
1968	Oliver! MOVIE	The Magistrate
1968	Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare MOVIE	Ignazio
1967	On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... MOVIE	Ibn-el-Rascid
1967	Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad MOVIE	Commodore Roseabove
1967	The Sailor from Gibraltar MOVIE	Llewellyn
1967	Brown Eye, Evil Eye MOVIE	Tadeusz Bridges
1966	ABC Stage 67 TV	Herr Hoffman
1966	How to Steal a Million MOVIE	Charles Bonnet
1966	The Poppy Is Also a Flower MOVIE	Salah Rahman Khan
1965	The Walrus And The Carpenter TV	Self
1964	Hide and Seek MOVIE	Wilkins
1964	The Bargee MOVIE	Joe Turnbull
1963	Tom Jones MOVIE	Squire Western
1962	Mutiny on the Bounty MOVIE	Alexander Smith
1962	Term of Trial MOVIE	O'Hara
1962	The Inspector MOVIE	Van der Pink
1962	The Counterfeit Traitor MOVIE	Collins
1960	Exodus MOVIE	Mandria
1960	The Day They Robbed the Bank of England MOVIE	O'Shea
1960	The Citadel MOVIE	Philip Denny
1959	The Story on Page One MOVIE	Judge Edgar Neilsen
1959	Ben-Hur MOVIE	Scheich Ildirim
1957	Lucky Jim MOVIE	Professor Welch
1957	Now Let Him Go MOVIE	Simon Kendall
1957	The Good Companions MOVIE	Morton Mitcham
1956	Armchair Theatre TV	Simon Kendall
1956	Colonel March of Scotland Yard TV	Dr. Ivy
1955	The Merry Christmas MOVIE	Scrooge
1955	Quatermass II TV	Dr Leo Pugh
1955	Passage Home MOVIE	Pettigrew der Chefingenieur
1955	The Moment of Truth MOVIE	The Photographer
1954	The Sleeping Tiger MOVIE	Inspector Simmons
1954	The Million Pound Note MOVIE	Potter
1953	The Beggar's Opera MOVIE	The Beggar
1953	The Oscars TV	Self
1953	The Titfield Thunderbolt MOVIE	Dan
1951	Laughter in Paradise MOVIE	Henry Russell
1951	The Galloping Major MOVIE	Humbert Temple
1950	Gone to Earth MOVIE	Andrew Vessons
1950	Lux Video Theatre TV	Man with Cello
1950	Lux Video Theatre TV	Constantine
1950	Scrapbook for 1933 MOVIE	(voice)
1949	A Run for Your Money MOVIE	Huw Price
1949	Lights Out TV	Self
1949	Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress MOVIE	Bensall, the butler
1949	Kind Hearts and Coronets MOVIE	Lord High Steward
1949	The Last Days of Dolwyn MOVIE	Minister
1948	London Belongs to Me MOVIE	Headlam Fynne
1948	So Evil My Love MOVIE	Coroner
1948	The First Gentleman MOVIE	John Fisher
1948	The Three Weird Sisters MOVIE	Mabli Hughes
1940	Neutral Port MOVIE	Bit
1940	Night Train to Munich MOVIE	Self

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