# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-griffith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:50:50.018Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-griffith"
name: "Hugh Griffith"
slug: "hugh-griffith"
description: "Hugh Emrys Griffith was a Welsh actor. Described by BFI's Screenonline as a \"wild-eyed, formidable character player\", Griffith appeared in more than 100 theatre, film, and television productions in a career that spanned over 40 years. He was the second Welsh-born actor to win an Academy Award, winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Ben-Hur (1959), with a second nomination for Tom Jones (1963)."
tagline: "Welsh actor (1912–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hugh_griffith_publicity_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1912-05-30"
deathDate: "1980-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           22.88145866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341518/"
    handle:    "nm0341518"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump