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Hugh Griffith

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Welsh actor (1912-1980)

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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.

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Filmography 40

Ben-Hur1959 · ★ 7.9
Kind Hearts and Coronets1949 · ★ 7.6
Oliver!1968 · ★ 7.0
How to Steal a Million1966 · ★ 7.5
Mutiny on the Bounty1962 · ★ 7.1
Exodus1960 · ★ 6.7
The Million Pound Note1954 · ★ 7.0
The Abominable Dr. Phibes1971 · ★ 7.0
The Canterbury Tales1972 · ★ 6.1
Tom Jones1963 · ★ 5.9
What?1972 · ★ 5.4
Dr. Phibes Rises Again1972 · ★ 6.3
Night Train to Munich1940 · ★ 7.3
Cry of the Banshee1970 · ★ 5.4
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?1972 · ★ 6.2
The Counterfeit Traitor1962 · ★ 6.5
Wuthering Heights1970
The Titfield Thunderbolt1953 · ★ 7.0
The Last Remake of Beau Geste1977
Start the Revolution Without Me1970
Gone to Earth1950
Laughter in Paradise1951
The Sleeping Tiger1954
The Hound of the Baskervilles1978
The Fixer1968
The Final Programme1973
So Evil My Love1948
Lucky Jim1957
Craze1974
Legend of the Werewolf1975
The Poppy Is Also a Flower1966
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square1980
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England1960
A Run for Your Money1949
Casanova & Co.1977
Term of Trial1962
The Bargee1964
London Belongs to Me1948
Joseph Andrews1977
Take Me High1973

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Television 10

The Oscars1953
Lights Out1949
Playhouse1974
Lux Video Theatre1950
ABC Stage 671966
Colonel March of Scotland Yard1956
Quatermass II1955
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries1973
Armchair Theatre1956
The Walrus And The Carpenter1965

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1960Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

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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).

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Country
United Kingdom
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1912 to 1980 · aged 67
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30 languages

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