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Hugh Griffith

Actor | * 05/30/1912 († 67, 05/14/1980) | Marianglas, Anglesey, Wales (United Kingdom (UK))
Hugh Emrys Griffith (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh actor. Described by BFI Screenonline as a "wild-eyed, formidable character player", Griffith appeared in over 100 theatre, film, and television productions in a career that spanned over 40 years. He was the second-ever Welsh-born actor to win an Academy Award (following Ray Milland for The Lost Weekend), winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Ben-Hur (1959), with an additional nomination for Tom Jones (1963). As a stage actor, he was a renowned Shakespearean and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and was nominated for Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the original production Look Homeward, Angel. He was also a BAFTA Award and a three-time Golden Globe nominee for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (for Tom Jones; 1963, Oliver!; 1968, and The Fixer, also 1968), and a Clarence Derwent Award winner. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Crime

Known for these Movies & Shows

A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries. ...

How to Steal a Million

NR

1966 | 3.7/5 | 2h 3min
Comedy, Crime
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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 trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into sla ...

Ben-Hur

Certification unknown

1959 | 3.9/5 | 3h 42min
Action, Drama, History
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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 headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpo ...

Oliver!

G

1968 | 3.5/5 | 2h 33min
Drama, Kids & Family, Music
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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? ...

Tom Jones

NR

1963 | 3.1/5 | 2h 8min
Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love
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Awards & Nominations for Hugh Griffith

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 2x Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
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Movies with Hugh Griffith as Actor(65)

as Captain Cat (Voice)1992 Under Milk Wood
as Sid Larkin1980 A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
as Caradog Lloyd-Evans1978 Grand Slam
as Frankland1978 The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Judge1977 The Last Remake of Beau Geste
as Squire Western1977 Joseph Andrews
as The Caliph1977 Casanova & Co.
as Caiaphas1976 The Passover Plot
as Maestro Pamponi1975 Legend of the Werewolf
as Solicitor1974 Craze
as Tetzel1974 Luther
as Barone di Roccadura1974 High School Girl
as Sir Harry Cunningham1973 Take Me High
1973 Crescete e moltiplicatevi
as Professor Hira1973 The Final Programme
as Joseph Noblart1972 What?
as Harry Ambrose1972 Dr. Phibes Rises Again
as Sir January1972 The Canterbury Tales
as Mr. Harrison, The Pigman1972 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
as Rabbi1971 The Abominable Dr. Phibes
as Mickey1970 Cry of the Banshee
as King Louis1970 Start the Revolution Without Me
as Dr. Kenneth1970 Wuthering Heights
as Lebedev1968 The Fixer
as Ignazio1968 Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
as The Magistrate1968 Oliver!
as Commodore Roseabove1967 Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
as Tadeusz Bridges1967 Brown Eye, Evil Eye
as Llewellyn1967 The Sailor from Gibraltar
as Ibn-el-Rascid1967 On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
as Salah Rahman Khan1966 Poppies Are Also Flowers
as Charles Bonnet1966 How to Steal a Million
as Wilkins1964 Hide and Seek
as Joe Turnbull1964 The Bargee
as Squire Western1963 Tom Jones
as Collins1962 The Counterfeit Traitor
as O'Hara1962 Term of Trial
as Alexander Smith1962 Mutiny on the Bounty
as Van der Pink1962 The Inspector
as O'Shea1960 The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
as Philip Denny1960 The Citadel
as Mandria1960 Exodus
as Judge Edgar Neilsen1959 The Story on Page One
as Scheich Ildirim1959 Ben-Hur
as Professor Welch1957 Lucky Jim
as Morton Mitcham1957 The Good Companions
as Simon Kendall1957 Now Let Him Go
as Pettigrew der Chefingenieur1955 Passage Home
as Scrooge1955 The Merry Christmas
as Inspector Simmons1954 The Sleeping Tiger
as Potter1954 The Million Pound Note
as The Beggar1953 The Beggar's Opera
as Dan1953 The Titfield Thunderbolt
as Henry Augustus Russell1951 Laughter in Paradise
as Harold Temple1951 The Galloping Major
as Andrew Vessons1950 Gone to Earth
as Lord High Steward1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets
as Bensall, the butler1949 Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress
as Minister1949 The Last Days of Dolwyn
as Huw Price1949 A Run for Your Money
as Coroner1948 So Evil My Love
as Mabli Hughes1948 The Three Weird Sisters
as Headlam Fynne1948 London Belongs to Me
as Bit1940 Neutral Port
1940 Night Train to Munich

TV Shows/Series with Hugh Griffith as Actor(7)

1974 Playhouse
as Herr Hoffman1966 ABC Stage 67
as Dr. Ivy1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard
as Dr. Leo Pugh1955 Quatermass II
as Man with Cello1950 Lux Video Theatre
as Constantine1950 Lux Video Theatre
1946 Lights Out

Full Name: Hugh Griffith
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Thursday, 05/30 1912 (May) in Marianglas, Anglesey, Wales (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Wednesday, 05/14 1980 (May) in London (aged: 67)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni
Siblings: Elen Roger Jones
Other names for Hugh Griffith (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Hugh Emrys Griffith"
Hugh Griffith frequently works together with these people:
Gene Lockhart (9x, Actor)
John Addison (8x, Crew)
Anne Bancroft (7x, Actress)
Thomas Mitchell (7x, Actor)
Edmond O'Brien (7x, Actor)
Isobel Elsom (7x, Actress)
George Chandler (7x, Actor)
Phyllis Thaxter (7x, Actress)
Laraine Day (7x, Actress)
Robert Fuest (7x, Crew)
Samuel Z. Arkoff (6x, Crew)
Tony Richardson (6x, Crew)
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