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Hugh Griffith

Highest Rated: 100% How to Steal a Million (1966)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)

Birthday: May 30, 1912

Birthplace: Marian Glas, Anglesey, Wales, UK

Wild-eyed, with a hook nose and often sporting a pointed beard and mustache, this Welsh character actor turned in a number of flamboyant, hearty performances. Hugh Griffith got a relatively late start. Born in Wales, he worked as a bank clerk until 1939, when he made his stage debut at the age of 27, and entered films the next year with the British-made "Neutral Port." Griffith spent the 1940s and 50s slowly building up his film career (making only one US release, "So Evil My Love" 1948). He played supporting roles in twenty or so films, including some successes like "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949) and "The Sleeping Tiger" (1954) before scoring his biggest hit in the US-made 1959 remake of "Ben Hur." Playing Sheik Ilderim, the wry chariot mogul, Griffith earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

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100% 88% How to Steal a Million
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100% 93% Kind Hearts and Coronets
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88% 75% The Abominable Dr. Phibes
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87% 89% Ben-Hur
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83% 58% Tom Jones
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83% 76% Start the Revolution Without Me
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70% 73% Mutiny on the Bounty
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65% 69% Exodus
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64% 62% Wuthering Heights
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Hugh Griffith

Hugh Griffith THE STORY ON PAGE ONE, Hugh Griffith, 1959, ©20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright LUTHER, Hugh Griffith, Alan Badel, 1973 CANTERBURY TALES, Hugh Griffith, Josephine Chaplin, 1972 THE GALLOPING MAJOR, Hugh Griffith, 1951 TOM JONES, Hugh Griffith, 1963 WHO SLEW AUNTIE ROO?, Hugh Griffith, 1971 TOM JONES, from left: Hugh Griffith, Albert Finney, 1963 THE AMOROUS ADVENTURES OF MOLL FLANDERS, Hugh Griffith, 1965 BEN-HUR, Hugh Griffith, 1959 View more photos

Filmography

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No Score Yet 42% A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Sid Larkin (Character) - 1979
0% 42% The Hound of the Baskervilles Frankland (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 98% Grand Slam Caradog Lloyd-Evans (Character) - 1978
50% 63% The Last Remake of Beau Geste Judge (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Casanova & Co. The Caliph (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 26% Legend of the Werewolf Maestro Pamponi (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bridges to Heaven Unknown (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Passover Plot Unknown (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Take Me High Sir Harry Cunningham (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet High School Girl Unknown (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 39% The Last Days of Man on Earth Professor Hira (Character) - 1973
17% 49% Diary of Forbidden Dreams Joseph Noblart (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 50% Luther John Tetzel (Character) - 1973
60% 42% Who Slew Auntie Roo? Mr. Harrison (Character) - 1972
59% 57% Dr. Phibes Rises Again Harry Ambrose (Character) - 1972
88% 75% The Abominable Dr. Phibes Rabbi (Character) - 1971
60% 63% The Canterbury Tales Sir January (Character) - 1971
64% 62% Wuthering Heights Dr. Kenneth (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 38% Cry of the Banshee Mickey (Character) - 1970
83% 76% Start the Revolution Without Me King Louis (Character) - 1970
91% 81% Oliver! The Magistrate (Character) - 1968
56% 62% The Fixer Lebedev (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Chastity Belt Ibn-el-Rascid (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet On My Way to the Crusades I Met a Girl Who... Ibn-el-Rascid (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Drop Dead, My Love Ignazio (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 45% Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad Commodore Roseabove (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad Commodore Roseabove (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sailor From Gibraltar Llewellyn (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 36% The Poppy Is Also a Flower Salah Rahman Khan (Character) - 1966
100% 88% How to Steal a Million Charles Bonnet (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hide and Seek Wilkins (Character) - 1964
83% 58% Tom Jones Squire Western (Character) $481.4K 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bargee Joe Turnbull (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 84% The Counterfeit Traitor Collins (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet 29% Lisa Van der Pink (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet 85% Term of Trial O'Hara (Character) - 1962
70% 73% Mutiny on the Bounty Alexander Smith (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet 90% The Day They Robbed the Bank of England O'Shea (Character) - 1960
65% 69% Exodus Mandria (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 53% The Story on Page One Judge Edgar Neilsen (Character) - 1959
87% 89% Ben-Hur Sheik Ilderim (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 28% Lucky Jim Professor Welch (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Good Companions Morton Mitcham (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 45% The Sleeping Tiger The Inspector (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 60% The Beggar's Opera The Beggar (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 79% The Titfield Thunderbolt Dan (Character) - 1953
20% 64% Laughter in Paradise Henry Augustus Russell (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 79% Gone to Earth Andrew Vessons (Character) - 1950
100% 93% Kind Hearts and Coronets Lord High Steward (Character) $35.9K 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet Woman of Dolwyn The Minister (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Run for Your Money Huw Price (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 56% So Evil My Love Coroner (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet The First Gentleman Bishop of Salisbury (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 20% Dulcimer Street Headlam Fynne (Character) - 1948

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Rheingold Theatre Unknown (Character) 1953