Fred Griffiths
Birthday: 1912-03-08
Place of Birth: Ludlow, Shropshire, England, UK
Biography: Fred Griffiths was born on March 8, 1912 in Ludlow, Shropshire, England as Frederick David Griffiths. He was an actor, known for To Sir, with Love (1967), Steptoe and Son(1972) and The Cruel Sea (1953). He was married to Emily Sadler. He died on August 27, 1994 in London, England. He was a fireman based in Chelsea during the war and broke into acting by accident. He played a taxi driver in no less than 20 films and appeared in over 100 in total. He died a widower and left one son. Often played taxi drivers and was indeed a qualified London Taxi Driver, who kept his badge and worked as a taxi driver between filming jobs. He appeared in a wartime documentary film, and someone saw his character appeal and started a new career. Appeared in a television commercial on top of Saint Paul's Cathederal in 1973 with Chris Sullivan.
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Along the Way
A young singer from Wales becomes a pop star but soon tires of his success and returns home....
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I'm All Right Jack
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at...
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Jungle Street
In this crime drama, a mugger accidently kills a man during a robbery and finds himself blackmailed ...
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The Sleeping Tiger
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes...
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There Was a Crooked Man
When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught ...
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Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950....
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Secret Venture
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret docume...
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Doctor at Sea
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 a...
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The Long Arm
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with cl...
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Ring of Spies
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy...
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You Pay Your Money
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer....
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Left Right and Centre
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservativ...
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Barnacle Bill
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as '...
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Pool of London
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London....
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A Cry from the Streets
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a...
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Next to No Time
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instru...
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Carry On Regardless
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series o...
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Achilles Heel
A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career....
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Carry On Nurse
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. Th...
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The Window Cleaner
A window cleaner suffers from a fear of heights, until he is seduced by one of his customers....
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The Ladykillers
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow...
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Slimderella
Putting on a pantomime, the kids find they must share the Church hall with a rock group. They decide...
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Perfect Friday
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he beco...
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A Box for Rob
Rob Spencer's world begins to unravel when a murder takes place in his town, bringing back a flood o...
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Fires Were Started
British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the live...
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Murder at the Gallop
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby...
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Light Up the Sky!
Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II....
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No Trees in the Street
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England...
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Passport to Pimlico
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and d...
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Street of Shadows
A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of in...
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Dad's Army
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman...
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Lost
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their ...
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Double Confession
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes i...
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The Huggetts Abroad
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to S...
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Nine Men
The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African c...
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The Cruel Sea
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexp...
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The Final Test
Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against A...
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The Big Job
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught a...
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A Day to Remember
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of th...
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The Over-Amorous Artist
Sexploitation comedy about an aspiring artist. Alan and Sue switch roles: she goes out to work while...
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Steptoe & Son
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the nei...
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Sailor Beware
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Sh...
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Bang! You're Dead
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the...
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Genevieve
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the fir...
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No Sex Please - We're British
A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with...
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Billion Dollar Brain
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer...
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Turn the Key Softly
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail....
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Dunkirk
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer i...
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Golden Arrow
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and in...
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Doctor in Love
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping...
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Stop Press Girl
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she does...
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It Always Rains on Sunday
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance....
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The Battle of the Sexes
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their exp...
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time....
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I Believe in You
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950)...
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Carry On Loving
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-...
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Wheel of Fate
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while T...
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The Horse's Mouth
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his n...
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23 Paces to Baker Street
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads hi...
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Carrington V.C.
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces...
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John and Julie
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth....
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Up in the World
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted...
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Just My Luck
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dre...
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One Good Turn
Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the or...
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The Square Peg
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they c...
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On the Beat
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst oth...
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A Stitch in Time
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after c...
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The Early Bird
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a ...
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Up the Chastity Belt
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lur...
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The Captain's Table
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although...
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That's Carry On!
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Will...
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Doctor in the House
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 an...
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What's a Carry On?
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips a...
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To Sir, with Love
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his un...
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No Love for Johnnie
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his li...
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