Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roger Ashton-Griffiths (born January 19, 1957 in Hemel Hempstead) is a British character actor, screenwriter and film director. He graduated from Lancaster University (BMus) and the University of East London (MA Fine Art), and began his career as a singer with English National Opera at the London Coliseum. He has appeared in numerous high-profile films, including Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm and Brazil, A Knight's Tale, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of N...
Known For
Complete Filmography

My Mother’s Wedding
2025
Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past an...

The Score
2022
as Frank
Mike and Troy, two small-time crooks, go to a roadside cafe for a meeting they hope to make a big profit from.

The Other Me
2022
as Stranger
The life of a young architect is thrown into turmoil when he's diagnosed with a rare eye disease. As his condition worsens, he questions his life and ...

The Show
2021
A man goes on a mission to locate a stolen artifact for a client, which leads him to a haunted town full of vampires, sleeping beauties, and Voodoo ga...

My Dad's Christmas Date
2020
as Mr. Thompson
It’s Christmas and the charming city of York, home to Jules, 16 and her Dad, David is decked out ready for the festive season. In many ways, David and...

Come Away
2020
as Smoking Overweight Man
Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they ...

Christopher Robin
2018
as Ralph Butterworth
Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and lovea...

The Death of Stalin
2017
as Musician #1
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl...

Breathe
2017
as Hospital Chaplain
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

Crooked House
2017
as Mr Gaitskill
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncrat...

The London Firm
2015
as The Contractor
Two hitmen wake up in the back of a truck to discover they have been drugged and their employer brutally murdered. Their attempts to escape bring abou...

The Lobster
2015
as Doctor
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partne...

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
2015
as The Potter
When aspiring knight Gareth goes in search of a fallen comet rumored to contain gold, he is shocked to instead find the dragon Drago. After Drago save...

Mr. Turner
2014
as Henry William Pickersgill
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful ...

Grace of Monaco
2014
as Alfred Hitchcock
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and F...

Summer in February
2013
as Jory
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which includ...

A Gun for George
2011
as Mr. Maddock
Author Terry Finch struggles to find an outlet that will stock or reprint his violent pulp crime series "The Reprisalizer"

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
as Jonathan
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue wha...

Bright Star
2009
as shopkeeper
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her f...

Tormented
2009
as Mr. Humpage
Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, is driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at scho...

Hell's Pavement
2009
as Daffyd Tudor
The film follows five years in the life of a young girl as she struggles against an onslaught of good intentions. From her first encounter with the so...

Margaret
2009
as John Sergeant
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990...

Mutant Chronicles
2008
as Science Monk
It's the year 2707. Earth's natural resources have all but been exhausted by mankind. Battles rage for the remainder between the competing Corporation...

Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
2007
as General Doppet
Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French army at the siege of Toulon. Destitute and relying...

A Very British Sex Scandal
2007
as 'Khaki' Roberts
A Very British Sex Scandal tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a royal correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper. He is a closet homosexual and like...

Irish Jam
2006
as Tom Flannery
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest w...

The Brothers Grimm
2005
as Mayor
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and ...

Devil's Gate
2004
as Eagle
Laura Fraser stars as a young woman forced to return to her hometown and confront the demons in her past, in this British thriller.

What a Girl Wants
2003
as Lord Orwood
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, sh...

Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Doctor
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly...

Gangs of New York
2002
as P.T. Barnum
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's...

A Knight's Tale
2001
as Old Bishop
William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, Will...

Princess of Thieves
2001
as Friar Tuck
Sherwood forest has a courageous new hero - Gwyn, the daughter of Robin Hood. Possessing the cunning skills of her legendary father and the beauty and...

Deflation
2001
as Meditating Man
Pride going before the fall.

Deflation
2001
Editor, Writer, Director
Pride going before the fall.

Lady Audley's Secret
2000
as Dr. Alwyn Mosgrave
When Lucy Graham (Neve McIntosh) weds the much older Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham), his nephew Robert (Steven Mackintosh) is suspicious of the ...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
as Sinister German
Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palac...

You're Dead...
1999
as Cliff Sniffton (bank manager)
A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.

Swept from the Sea
1998
as Canon Van Stone
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. Whe...

The Portrait of a Lady
1996
as Bob Bantling
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill fathe...

The Wind in the Willows
1996
as The Prosecution Counsel
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, ...

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996
as Gent at Mint
After being born in prison, Moll Flanders wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century English society, has five husbands and many male an...

Jude
1996
as Auctioneer
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is t...

Restoration
1995
as Mr. Bung
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel j...

Go Now
1995
as Walsh
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibi...

Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
1995
Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political satire...

The Plant
1995
as Geoff
In a garden in a London suburb, corpses sprout out of the earth on during a live television gardening programme called Down to Earth. However, it soon...

The Madness of King George
1994
as MP
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confu...

Shadowlands
1993
as Dr Eddie Monk
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.

King Ralph
1991
as Royal Photographer
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.

Chicago Joe and the Showgirl
1990
as Insp. Tarr
During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns de...

Mountains of the Moon
1990
as Lord Cowley
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victor...

Separate Bedrooms
1989
as Harvey
Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced ...

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989
as Turpin
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

Empire State
1987
as Punter in cafe
In the docklands of East London stands the Empire State, a nightclub full of magic and mystery. Designed like an ocean liner, it's become a battle gro...

Haunted Honeymoon
1986
as Cousin Francis Jr.
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech...

Pirates
1986
as Moonhead
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Young Sherlock Holmes
1985
as Det. Sgt. Lestrade
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his clas...

Dreamchild
1985
as Mr. Duckworth
Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had a...

Plenty
1985
as Radio Producer
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Brazil
1985
as Priest
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautif...

The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
1984
as 1st Coachman
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee...

Savage House
N/A
as Dr. Hemmings
Set against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – this is a timely and darkly satirical story of Sir C...