Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Birthday: 1957-01-19
Place of Birth: Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roger Ashton-Griffiths (born January 19, 1957 in Hemel Hempstead) is a British character actor, screenwriter and film director. He graduated from Lancaster University (BMus) and the University of East London (MA Fine Art), and began his career as a singer with English National Opera at the London Coliseum. He has appeared in numerous high-profile films, including Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm and Brazil, A Knight's Tale, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, Roman Polanski's Pirates, Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. He has also worked extensively in television, including Margaret and The Tudors (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Ashton-Griffiths, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Gangs of New York
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Swept from the Sea
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Mountains of the Moon
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The Brothers Grimm
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Princess of Thieves
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
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Irish Jam
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
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The Other Me
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Devil's Gate
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The Plant
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Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
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Separate Bedrooms
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Lady Audley's Secret
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Grace of Monaco
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The Score
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Mr. Turner
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Shadowlands
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My Mother's Wedding
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Empire State
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Margaret
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The Portrait of a Lady
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The London Firm
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Brazil
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Bright Star
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
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Dreamchild
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Go Now
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The Lobster
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Haunted Honeymoon
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Crooked House
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Savage House
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Nicholas Nickleby
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The Madness of King George
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What a Girl Wants
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The Wind in the Willows
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A Very British Sex Scandal
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Chicago Joe and the Showgirl
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Breathe
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King Ralph
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Summer in February
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The Death of Stalin
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Young Sherlock Holmes
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A Gun for George
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Restoration
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Mutant Chronicles
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Christopher Robin
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
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The Show
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The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
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Jude
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Plenty
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war l...
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Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
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A Knight's Tale
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My Dad's Christmas Date
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Tormented
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Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
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Hell's Pavement
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Come Away
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Seven Minutes
A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an exp...
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