Hugh Griffith

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

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Known For

Lights Out

1949

The Oscars

1953 • as Self

Playhouse

1974 • as Dr. Walden

Ben-Hur

1959 • as Scheich Ildirim

Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965 • as Uncle Rollo

The Million Pound Note

1954 • as Potter

Filmography

1992

Under Milk Wood

as Captain Cat (voice) (archive sound)

Movie - Released: 4/19/1992

1980

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

as Sid Larkin

Movie - Released: 3/16/1980

1978

Grand Slam

as Caradog Lloyd-Evans

Movie - Released: 3/17/1978

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Frankland

Movie - Released: 8/1/1978

1977

Casanova & Co.

as The Caliph

Movie - Released: 3/1/1977

Joseph Andrews

as Squire Western

Movie - Released: 3/9/1977

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

as Judge

Movie - Released: 6/15/1977

1976

The Passover Plot

as Caiaphas

Movie - Released: 10/29/1976

The Joke

as Dr Walden

Movie - Released: 5/26/1976

1975

Legend of the Werewolf

as Maestro Pamponi

Movie - Released: 8/6/1975

1974

Craze

as Solicitor

Movie - Released: 5/16/1974

High School Girl

as Barone di Roccadura

Movie - Released: 3/8/1974

Luther

as Tetzel

Movie - Released: 1/21/1974

Playhouse

as Dr. Walden

TV - Released: 3/13/1974

1973

The Final Programme

as Professor Hira

Movie - Released: 10/4/1973

Take Me High

as Sir Harry Cunningham

Movie - Released: 12/7/1973

Increase and Multiply

as Monsignor Casadei

Movie - Released: 3/15/1973

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

as The Man

TV - Released: 9/1/1973

1972

The Canterbury Tales

as Sir January

Movie - Released: 9/2/1972

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

as Mr. Harrison, The Pigman

Movie - Released: 2/11/1972

What?

as Joseph Noblart

Movie - Released: 12/7/1972

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

as Harry Ambrose

Movie - Released: 7/1/1972

1971

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

as Rabbi

Movie - Released: 4/1/1971

1970

Cry of the Banshee

as Mickey

Movie - Released: 7/22/1970

Start the Revolution Without Me

as King Louis

Movie - Released: 2/4/1970

Wuthering Heights

as Dr. Kenneth

Movie - Released: 6/9/1970

1968

Oliver!

as The Magistrate

Movie - Released: 9/26/1968

The Fixer

as Lebedev

Movie - Released: 12/8/1968

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

as Ignazio

Movie - Released: 2/8/1968

1967

The Sailor from Gibraltar

as Llewellyn

Movie - Released: 1/1/1967

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad

as Commodore Roseabove

Movie - Released: 2/15/1967

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

as Ibn-el-Rascid

Movie - Released: 12/1/1967

Brown Eye, Evil Eye

as Tadeusz Bridges

Movie - Released: 1/1/1967

1966

How to Steal a Million

as Charles Bonnet

Movie - Released: 7/13/1966

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

as Salah Rahman Khan

Movie - Released: 5/20/1966

ABC Stage 67

as Herr Hoffman

TV - Released: 9/14/1966

1965

The Walrus And The Carpenter

TV - Released: 3/2/1965

Thirty-Minute Theatre

as Uncle Rollo

TV - Released: 10/7/1965

1964

The Bargee

as Joe Turnbull

Movie - Released: 4/23/1964

Hide and Seek

as Wilkins

Movie - Released: 6/21/1964

1963

Tom Jones

as Squire Western

Movie - Released: 8/24/1963

1962

Mutiny on the Bounty

as Alexander Smith

Movie - Released: 11/8/1962

The Counterfeit Traitor

as Collins

Movie - Released: 4/13/1962

Term of Trial

as O'Hara

Movie - Released: 8/16/1962

The Inspector

as Van der Pink

Movie - Released: 5/24/1962

1960

Exodus

as Mandria

Movie - Released: 12/15/1960

The Citadel

as Philip Denny

Movie - Released: 2/19/1960

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

as O'Shea

Movie - Released: 9/4/1960

The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries

as Captain Harmonville

TV - Released: 3/31/1960

1959

Ben-Hur

as Scheich Ildirim

Movie - Released: 11/18/1959

The Story on Page One

as Judge Edgar Neilsen

Movie - Released: 12/1/1959

1957

Now Let Him Go

as Simon Kendall

Movie - Released: 9/15/1957

The Good Companions

as Morton Mitcham

Movie - Released: 4/22/1957

Lucky Jim

as Professor Welch

Movie - Released: 9/17/1957

1956

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

as Dr. Ivy

TV - Released: 2/22/1956

Armchair Theatre

as Simon Kendall

TV - Released: 7/8/1956

1955

Passage Home

as Pettigrew der Chefingenieur

Movie - Released: 3/17/1955

Movie

The Merry Christmas

as Scrooge

Movie - Released: 12/21/1955

The Moment of Truth

as The Photographer

Movie - Released: 3/6/1955

Quatermass II

as Dr Leo Pugh

TV - Released: 10/22/1955

1954

The Sleeping Tiger

as Inspector Simmons

Movie - Released: 6/21/1954

The Million Pound Note

as Potter

Movie - Released: 1/7/1954

1953

The Titfield Thunderbolt

as Dan

Movie - Released: 3/4/1953

The Beggar's Opera

as The Beggar

Movie - Released: 8/24/1953

The Oscars

as Self

TV - Released: 3/19/1953

1951

Laughter in Paradise

as Henry Russell

Movie - Released: 6/1/1951

The Galloping Major

as Humbert Temple

Movie - Released: 5/7/1951

1950

Gone to Earth

as Andrew Vessons

Movie - Released: 11/6/1950

Movie

Scrapbook for 1933

as (voice)

Movie - Released: 2/6/1950

Lux Video Theatre

as Man with Cello

TV - Released: 10/2/1950

Lux Video Theatre

as Constantine

TV - Released: 10/2/1950

1949

A Run for Your Money

as Huw Price

Movie - Released: 11/23/1949

The Last Days of Dolwyn

as Minister

Movie - Released: 4/13/1949

Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress

as Bensall, the butler

Movie - Released: 6/27/1949

Kind Hearts and Coronets

as Lord High Steward

Movie - Released: 6/23/1949

Lights Out

TV - Released: 7/19/1949

1948

So Evil My Love

as Coroner

Movie - Released: 8/2/1948

London Belongs to Me

as Headlam Fynne

Movie - Released: 11/5/1948

The Three Weird Sisters

as Mabli Hughes

Movie - Released: 2/26/1948

The First Gentleman

as John Fisher

Movie - Released: 3/15/1948

1940

Night Train to Munich

Movie - Released: 8/31/1940

Movie

Neutral Port

as Bit

Movie - Released: 12/6/1940