Personal Info
Birth date
1921-10-12 (103 Years)
Day of death
2006-06-25
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Also known as
Kenneth Reginald Griffith
Kenneth Reginald Griffiths
肯尼思·格里菲思
Kenneth Griffiths
Kenneth Griffith
Biography
Kenneth Griffith (12 October 1921 – 25 June 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.
Filmography
The Wednesday Play
4.5
Overview:
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.Omnibus
7.2
Overview:
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.Minder
6.833
Overview:
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.Thirty-Minute Theatre
3.8
Overview:
An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.Sunday Night Theatre
3.5
Overview:
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.The Prisoner
7.734
Overview:
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.Ooh La La!
NYR
Overview:
Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken identities and impeccable timing.Shaka Zulu
7
Overview:
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre of explorers, mercenaries and professional soldiers are sent to Zululand to try to make contact with Shaka and assess the real threat of his army.Lovejoy
7.3
Overview:
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.Four Weddings and a Funeral
6.775
Overview:
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.Festival
8
Overview:
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.Strange Report
6.5
Overview:
Adam Strange, a retired Home Office criminologist, solves bizarre cases – which have been marked "Open File" by various government departments – with the help of Hamlyn Gynt, Evelyn and Professor Marks. He employs the latest techniques in forensic investigation, which he undertakes in his own laboratory in his flat in Warwick Crescent in the Maida Vale/Little Venice area of Paddington.Circus of Horrors
5.89
Overview:
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.The Lion in Winter
7.4
Overview:
Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.High Treason
5.3
Overview:
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.A Night to Remember
7.648
Overview:
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
6.321
Overview:
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.The Wild Geese
6.84
Overview:
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.Who Dares Wins
6.202
Overview:
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?The Sea Wolves
5.9
Overview:
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.The Prison
NYR
Overview:
A successful Paris magazine proprietor embarks on a destructive voyage of self-discovery after his wife shoots dead her own sister, with whom he has had an affair for several years.I'm All Right Jack
6.7
Overview:
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.Jane Eyre
7
Overview:
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?1984
6.52
Overview:
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
6.536
Overview:
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.The Assassination Bureau
6.61
Overview:
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.Payroll
6.7
Overview:
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.Tiger Bay
7.2
Overview:
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.Love on the Dole
5.538
Overview:
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.The Prisoner
7.2
Overview:
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.Acting
TBAA Famous Journey as Narrator
TBAThe Enchanted Loom as "Quotations read by"
2001Very Annie Mary as Minister
1995The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain as Reverend Jones
1994Four Weddings and a Funeral as Mad Old Man - Wedding One
1986Shaka Zulu (10 Episodes) as Zacharias Abrahams
1986Lovejoy (1 Episode) as Sir Desmond Clark
1984The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood as Isaac of York
1982Remembrance as Joe
1982Who Dares Wins as Bishop Crick
1982Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever as himself (presenter)
1981Berlin Tunnel 21 as Bruno Balderbach
1980The Sea Wolves as Charlie Wilton
1979Minder (1 Episode) as Dai Llewellyn
1978Curious Journey as Narrator
1978The Wild Geese as Arthur Witty
1977Why Shoot the Teacher? as Inspector Woods
1976Sky Riders as Wasserman
1974S*P*Y*S as Lippet
1974The Prison as Julien Bour
1974Callan as Waterman
1974The Public's Right to Know as Self
1973The House in Nightmare Park as Ernest Henderson
1973Hang Up Your Brightest Colours as Himself
1971Revenge as Seely
1971Black As Hell and Thick As Grass as Presenter
1970Jane Eyre as Mason
1970The Gamblers as Broadfoot
1969Strange Report (1 Episode) as Segarus
1969The Assassination Bureau as Monsieur Popescu
1968Great Catherine as Naryshkin
1968Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher as Mr. Church
1968A Fairy Story as Unknown
1968The Lion in Winter as Strolling Player
1968Ooh La La! (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967Omnibus (1 Episode) as Self - Presenter
1967The Prisoner (1, 1 Episode) as The President, Schnipps / Number Two
1967The Whisperers as Mr. Weaver
1967The Bobo as Pepe Gamazo
1966A Walk in the Sea as Mr. Jones
1965Thirty-Minute Theatre (1 Episode) as Mr Rounds
1965Rotten to the Core as Lenny the Dip
1964The Wednesday Play (1 Episode) as Mr. Jones
1963Festival (1 Episode) as Mr. Jones
1963The Airy Tomb as Narrator
1963Heavens Above! as Rev. Owen Thomas
1963We Joined the Navy as Orator
1962Nothing to Pay as Lydiat Shell
1962The Fishing Match as Reuben
1962The Painted Smile as Kleinie
1962Only Two Can Play as Ieuan Jenkins
1961The Frightened City as Wally
1961Payroll as Monty
1961Rag Doll as Wilson
1960Suspect as Dr Shole
1960A French Mistress as Mr Meade
1960Circus of Horrors as Martin
1960Snowball as Phil Hart
1959Expresso Bongo as Charlie
1959Libel as Fitch
1959I'm All Right Jack as Dai
1959Carlton-Browne of the F.O. as Sir John's Assistant (uncredited)
1959Tiger Bay as Mr. Seymour
1958The Two-Headed Spy as Adolf Hitler
1958The Man Upstairs as Pollen
1958Chain of Events as Clarke
1958A Night to Remember as Wireless Operator John 'Jack' Phillips
1957The Naked Truth as Porter
1957Blue Murder at St. Trinian's as Charlie Bull
1957Lucky Jim as Cyril Johns
1957Brothers in Law as Hearse Driver
1956Tiger in the Smoke as Crutches
1956The Baby and the Battleship as Sub-Lieutenant
19561984 as Prisoner
1956Private's Progress as Private Dai Jones
1955Track the Man Down as Ken Orwell
1955The Prisoner as The Secretary
1954The Green Buddha as Nobby
195336 Hours as Henry Slosson
1952The Starfish as Jack Trevennick
1951High Treason as Jimmy Ellis
1950Waterfront as Maurice Bruno
1950Sunday Night Theatre (1, 1 Episode) as Rodion Raskolnikoff, Weintraub
1949Blue Scar as Thomas Williams
1949Forbidden as Johnny
1949Helter Skelter as Nick Martin's BBC Colleague
1948Bond Street as Len Phillips
1947Fame Is the Spur as Wartime Miners' Representative (uncredited)
1947The Shop at Sly Corner as Archie Fellows
1946The Shop at Sly Corner as Archie Fellowes
1942The Great Mr Handel as Unknown
1942The Forest Rangers as Ranger
1942Hard Steel as Dixon
1942The Black Sheep of Whitehall as Butcher's Boy
1941Love on the Dole as Harry's Pal in Billiard Hall
1941The Farmer's Wife as George Smerdon
1940Miss Knowall as Chris
1940Channel Incident as Johnny
Writing
TBAAgainst the Empire: The Boer War ... Writer
1982Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever ... Writer
1978Curious Journey ... Writer
1974The Public's Right to Know ... Writer
1971Black As Hell and Thick As Grass ... Writer