Hugh Griffith
Popularity:0.326
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1912-05-30
Place of Birth:Marianglas, Anglesey, Wales, UK
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Also Known As:Hugh Emrys Griffith, Хью Гриффит

Ben-Hur (1959)
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...

How to Steal a Million (1966)
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.

Exodus (1960)
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from...

The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many...

Casanova & Co. (1977)
While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man....

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
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...

The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

Cry of the Banshee (1970)
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers...

Tom Jones (1963)
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?

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.

The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
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,...

The Citadel (1960)
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....

Legend of the Werewolf (1975)
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...

The Final Programme (1973)
After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final...

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1967)
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...

The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

A Run for Your Money (1949)
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...

The Story on Page One (1959)
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.

Oliver! (1968)
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...

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
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.

So Evil My Love (1948)
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...

Laughter in Paradise (1951)
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...

Now Let Him Go (1957)
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...

Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other,...

What? (1972)
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.

The Bargee (1964)
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 -...

Term of Trial (1962)
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
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...

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
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 Fixer (1968)
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...

Gone to Earth (1950)
Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack...

Wuthering Heights (1970)
A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between...

Craze (1974)
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...

Scrapbook for 1933 (1950)
A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933.

The Passover Plot (1976)
Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the...

London Belongs to Me (1948)
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his...

The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)
An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.

Grand Slam (1978)
A group of Welsh rugby fans go over to see Wales play France in the final match of the Six Nations rugby tournament.

Hide and Seek (1964)
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...

The Galloping Major (1951)
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...

The Inspector (1962)
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Take Me High (1973)
Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant bank, but even his happy-go-lucky attitude is severely...

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...

Joseph Andrews (1977)
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...

The Three Weird Sisters (1948)
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...

Passage Home (1955)
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...

Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress (1949)
An heiress suddenly vanishes! A detective comes to the forlorn mansion of the missing heiress's wheel-chair-ridden uncle to discover the secret...

The Good Companions (1957)
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

Lucky Jim (1957)
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...

The Beggar's Opera (1953)
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.

Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
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...

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1967)
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
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...

The First Gentleman (1948)
The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

The Million Pound Note (1954)
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...

Neutral Port (1940)
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.

High School Girl (1974)
A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.

Luther (1974)
One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (1980)
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.

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare (1968)
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...

Brown Eye, Evil Eye (1967)
The story of the strange friendship between a seventy-year-old man and a six-year-old girl.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
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...

The Merry Christmas (1955)
Musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.

Under Milk Wood (1992)
A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.

The Joke (1976)
Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his victims. takes him seriously, trouble ensues.

Quatermass II (1955)
The serial sees Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group being asked to examine strange meteorite showers. His...

Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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ABC Stage 67 (1966)
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Lights Out (1949)
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1956)
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.

The Oscars (1953)
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

Playhouse (1974)
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Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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