Hugh Griffith

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

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

Commodore Roseabove

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

Harry Ambrose

The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar

The Million Pound Note

Potter

Playhouse

Dr. Walden

The Oscars

Self

Filmography

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

Year	TV Show	Role
1974	Playhouse	Dr. Walden
1966	ABC Stage 67	Herr Hoffman
1965	The Walrus And The Carpenter
1956	Colonel March of Scotland Yard	Dr. Ivy
1955	Quatermass II	Dr Leo Pugh
1953	The Oscars	Self
1950	Lux Video Theatre	Man with Cello
1950	Lux Video Theatre	Constantine
1949	Lights Out