Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

1957-01-19 Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK 63 Credits

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...

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My Mother’s Wedding

My Mother’s Wedding

2025

Acting

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

The Score

2022

as Frank

4.9
Acting

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

The Other Me

2022

as Stranger

5.5
Acting

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

The Show

2021

5.6
Acting

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

My Dad's Christmas Date

2020

as Mr. Thompson

6.2
Acting

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

Come Away

2020

as Smoking Overweight Man

5.8
Acting

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

Christopher Robin

2018

as Ralph Butterworth

7.3
Acting

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

The Death of Stalin

2017

as Musician #1

7.0
Acting

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

Breathe

2017

as Hospital Chaplain

7.4
Acting

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

Crooked House

2017

as Mr Gaitskill

6.4
Acting

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

The London Firm

2015

as The Contractor

5.0
Acting

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

The Lobster

2015

as Doctor

7.0
Acting

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

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse

2015

as The Potter

5.4
Acting

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

Mr. Turner

2014

as Henry William Pickersgill

6.5
Acting

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

Grace of Monaco

2014

as Alfred Hitchcock

6.0
Acting

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

Summer in February

2013

as Jory

5.4
Acting

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

A Gun for George

2011

as Mr. Maddock

6.9
Acting

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

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

2010

as Jonathan

5.9
Acting

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

Bright Star

2009

as shopkeeper

6.6
Acting

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

Tormented

2009

as Mr. Humpage

5.1
Acting

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

Hell's Pavement

2009

as Daffyd Tudor

Acting

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

Margaret

2009

as John Sergeant

5.8
Acting

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

Mutant Chronicles

2008

as Science Monk

5.3
Acting

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

Heroes & Villains: Napoleon

2007

as General Doppet

Acting

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

A Very British Sex Scandal

2007

as 'Khaki' Roberts

6.2
Acting

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

Irish Jam

2006

as Tom Flannery

5.5
Acting

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

The Brothers Grimm

2005

as Mayor

5.8
Acting

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

Devil's Gate

2004

as Eagle

Acting

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

What a Girl Wants

2003

as Lord Orwood

6.3
Acting

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

Nicholas Nickleby

2002

as Doctor

6.9
Acting

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

Gangs of New York

2002

as P.T. Barnum

7.3
Acting

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

A Knight's Tale

2001

as Old Bishop

6.9
Acting

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

Princess of Thieves

2001

as Friar Tuck

6.1
Acting

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

Deflation

2001

as Meditating Man

3.3
Acting

Pride going before the fall.

Deflation

Deflation

2001

Editor, Writer, Director

3.3
Writing Directing

Pride going before the fall.

Lady Audley's Secret

Lady Audley's Secret

2000

as Dr. Alwyn Mosgrave

3.5
Acting

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

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

1999

as Sinister German

4.8
Acting

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...

You're Dead...

1999

as Cliff Sniffton (bank manager)

6.4
Acting

A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.

Swept from the Sea

Swept from the Sea

1998

as Canon Van Stone

6.4
Acting

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

The Portrait of a Lady

1996

as Bob Bantling

6.0
Acting

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

The Wind in the Willows

1996

as The Prosecution Counsel

5.6
Acting

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

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

1996

as Gent at Mint

6.3
Acting

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

Jude

1996

as Auctioneer

6.3
Acting

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

Restoration

1995

as Mr. Bung

6.0
Acting

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

Go Now

1995

as Walsh

6.6
Acting

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

Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing

1995

7.0
Acting

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

The Plant

The Plant

1995

as Geoff

3.7
Acting

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

The Madness of King George

1994

as MP

6.8
Acting

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

Shadowlands

1993

as Dr Eddie Monk

6.9
Acting

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.

King Ralph

King Ralph

1991

as Royal Photographer

5.4
Acting

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

Chicago Joe and the Showgirl

1990

as Insp. Tarr

5.1
Acting

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

Mountains of the Moon

1990

as Lord Cowley

6.5
Acting

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

Separate Bedrooms

1989

as Harvey

5.3
Acting

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

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

1989

as Turpin

7.3
Acting

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

Empire State

Empire State

1987

as Punter in cafe

5.0
Acting

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

Haunted Honeymoon

1986

as Cousin Francis Jr.

5.4
Acting

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

Pirates

1986

as Moonhead

6.3
Acting

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Young Sherlock Holmes

Young Sherlock Holmes

1985

as Det. Sgt. Lestrade

6.7
Acting

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

Dreamchild

1985

as Mr. Duckworth

6.7
Acting

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

Plenty

1985

as Radio Producer

5.7
Acting

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

Brazil

1985

as Priest

7.7
Acting

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

The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

1984

as 1st Coachman

5.2
Acting

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

Savage House

N/A

as Dr. Hemmings

Acting

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...