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Acting

Hugh Griffith

Career: Active from 1948 to 1992, with a break from 1979 to 1991, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 26
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: How to Steal a Million
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 42 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Hugh Griffith Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.3, average 5.4
Pop Culture
1.0, average 2.2
Coming of Age
2.1, average 3.0
Family Dynamics
4.2, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 7
Social Commentary 4
Class Conflict 3
Period Piece 3
British Cinema 3
Tension 2
Romance 2
Social Satire 2
Literary Adaptation 2
Quirky Characters 2
Character Study 2
Complex Relationships 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

79

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

1 title

Under Milk Wood

as Captain Cat (voice) (archive sound)

1980s

1 title · average score 53

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

53

as Sid Larkin

1970s

24 titles · average score 54

Grand Slam

68

as Caradog Lloyd-Evans

The Hound of the Baskervilles

22

as Frankland

The Passover Plot

as Caiaphas

Legend of the Werewolf

45

as Maestro Pamponi

Luther

58

as Tetzel

Take Me High

48

as Sir Harry Cunningham

The Final Programme

54

as Professor Hira

The Canterbury Tales

61

as Sir January

What?

33

as Joseph Noblart

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

57

as Mr Harrison, The Pigman

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

80

as Rabbi

Start the Revolution Without Me

75

as King Louis

1960s

23 titles · average score 65

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

as Ignazio

The Fixer

59

as Lebedev

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

46

as Ibn-el-Rascid

Brown Eye, Evil Eye

as Tadeusz Bridges

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

49

as Commodore Roseabove

How to Steal a Million

89

as Charles Bonnet

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

49

as Salah Rahman Khan

The Bargee

66

as Joe Turnbull

Tom Jones

70

as Squire Western

The Counterfeit Traitor

74

as Collins

Mutiny on the Bounty

64

as Alexander Smith

Term of Trial

66

as O'Hara

1950s

20 titles · average score 64

Ben-Hur

86

as Scheich Ildirim

The Story on Page One

59

as Judge Edgar Neilsen

Lucky Jim

47

as Professor Welch

Now Let Him Go

as Simon Kendall

Quatermass II

67

TV show · as Dr Leo Pugh

The Moment of Truth

as The Photographer

Passage Home

60

as Pettigrew der Chefingenieur

The Sleeping Tiger

53

as Inspector Simmons

The Beggar's Opera

57

as The Beggar

The Titfield Thunderbolt

73

as Dan

The Galloping Major

61

as Humbert Temple

Gone to Earth

56

as Andrew Vessons

1940s

10 titles · average score 67

The Last Days of Dolwyn

69

as Minister

A Run for Your Money

63

as Huw Price

Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress

as Bensall, the butler

Kind Hearts and Coronets

91

as Lord High Steward

Lights Out

65

TV show

London Belongs to Me

52

as Headlam Fynne

So Evil My Love

63

as Coroner

The First Gentleman

as John Fisher

The Three Weird Sisters

70

as Mabli Hughes

as Bit