Biography
Hugh Griffith was an Oscar-winning Welsh screen, stage and television actor.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Under Milk Wood
1992
as Captain Cat (voice) (archive sound)
A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
1980
as Sid Larkin
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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978
as Frankland
The death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Sherlock Holmes is out to un...
Grand Slam
1978
as Caradog Lloyd-Evans
A group of Welsh rugby fans go over to see Wales play France in the final match of the Six Nations rugby tournament.
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
1977
as Judge
Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.
Joseph Andrews
1977
as Squire Western
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 An...
Casanova & Co.
1977
as The Caliph
While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwh...
The Passover Plot
1976
as Caiaphas
Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the Roman occupati...
The Joke
1976
as Dr Walden
Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his victims. takes him seriously, trouble ensues.
Legend of the Werewolf
1975
as Maestro Pamponi
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 of...
Craze
1974
as Solicitor
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 unimag...
High School Girl
1974
as Barone di Roccadura
A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.
Luther
1974
as Tetzel
A 16th-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.
Take Me High
1973
as Sir Harry Cunningham
Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant bank, but even his happy-go-lucky attitude is severely jol...
The Final Programme
1973
as Professor Hira
After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Pro...
Increase and Multiply
1973
as Monsignor Casadei
Italian comedy
What?
1972
as Joseph Noblart
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
The Canterbury Tales
1972
as Sir January
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
1972
as Harry Ambrose
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...
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
1972
as Mr. Harrison, The Pigman
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
1971
as Rabbi
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.
Cry of the Banshee
1970
as Mickey
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers hav...
Wuthering Heights
1970
as Dr. Kenneth
A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Hea...
Start the Revolution Without Me
1970
as King Louis
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, C...
The Fixer
1968
as Lebedev
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 ...
Oliver!
1968
as The Magistrate
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 he...
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
1968
as Ignazio
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 cuck...
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
1967
as Ibn-el-Rascid
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
1967
as Commodore Roseabove
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 fo...
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967
as Llewellyn
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...
Brown Eye, Evil Eye
1967
as Tadeusz Bridges
The story of the strange friendship between a seventy-year-old man and a six-year-old girl.
How to Steal a Million
1966
as Charles Bonnet
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
as Salah Rahman Khan
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
Hide and Seek
1964
as Wilkins
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...
The Bargee
1964
as Joe Turnbull
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 - causin...
Tom Jones
1963
as Squire Western
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?
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
as Alexander Smith
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 ...
Term of Trial
1962
as O'Hara
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including...
The Inspector
1962
as Van der Pink
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
The Counterfeit Traitor
1962
as Collins
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Exodus
1960
as Mandria
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyp...
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
1960
as O'Shea
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 ...
The Citadel
1960
as Philip Denny
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 on Page One
1959
as Judge Edgar Neilsen
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.
Ben-Hur
1959
as Scheich Ildirim
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of t...
Lucky Jim
1957
as Professor Welch
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...
Now Let Him Go
1957
as Simon Kendall
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 ol...
The Good Companions
1957
as Morton Mitcham
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
The Merry Christmas
1955
as Scrooge
Musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
Passage Home
1955
as Pettigrew der Chefingenieur
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 passe...
The Sleeping Tiger
1954
as Inspector Simmons
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 wish...
The Million Pound Note
1954
as Potter
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 ...
The Beggar's Opera
1953
as The Beggar
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
The Titfield Thunderbolt
1953
as Dan
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, back...
Laughter in Paradise
1951
as Henry Russell
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 whic...
The Galloping Major
1951
as Humbert Temple
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...
Gone to Earth
1950
as Andrew Vessons
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 ...
Scrapbook for 1933
1950
as (voice)
A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933.
A Run for Your Money
1949
as Huw Price
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...
Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress
1949
as Bensall, the butler
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...
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
as Lord High Steward
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 bu...
The Last Days of Dolwyn
1949
as Minister
An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
London Belongs to Me
1948
as Headlam Fynne
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mot...
So Evil My Love
1948
as Coroner
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 mal...
The First Gentleman
1948
as John Fisher
The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
The Three Weird Sisters
1948
as Mabli Hughes
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 estat...
Neutral Port
1940
as Bit
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.
Night Train to Munich
1940
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;...