Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Griffith

Birthday: 1921-10-12

Place of Birth: Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK

Biography: Kenneth Griffith (12 October 1921 – 25 June 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.

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The Airy Tomb
The Airy Tomb

Can there be a bleaker portrait of a life half-lived? Cinematic treatment of poet R.S. Thomas's stor...

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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon ...

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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...

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The Farmer's Wife
The Farmer's Wife

Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent e...

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The Wild Geese
The Wild Geese

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a ...

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Circus of Horrors
Circus of Horrors

A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends d...

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I'm All Right Jack
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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S*P*Y*S
S*P*Y*S

Two CIA bunglers botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination....

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Payroll
Payroll

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans ...

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Very Annie Mary
Very Annie Mary

Set in the fictional village of "Ogw" in the valleys of south-east Wales. After her father Jack suff...

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A Walk in the Sea
A Walk in the Sea

A lonely spinster has her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a buil...

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Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever
Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever

When in 1776 the United States of America broke away from Britain, a country without a written const...

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Tiger in the Smoke
Tiger in the Smoke

In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used ...

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Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher

A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem....

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Rag Doll
Rag Doll

A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfr...

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Forbidden
Forbidden

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in bu...

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The Sea Wolves
The Sea Wolves

A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of G...

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The Whisperers
The Whisperers

Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fa...

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The Assassination Bureau
The Assassination Bureau

In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organizat...

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Who Dares Wins
Who Dares Wins

When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary ...

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The Prisoner
The Prisoner

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his re...

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The Shop at Sly Corner
The Shop at Sly Corner

The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, has become disillusioned with society since his t...

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High Treason
High Treason

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring....

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Revenge
Revenge

A British family takes revenge into its own hands in avenging their recently slain daughter....

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The Painted Smile
The Painted Smile

Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie......

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The Man Upstairs
The Man Upstairs

The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological prof...

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The House in Nightmare Park
The House in Nightmare Park

Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of ...

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The Bobo
The Bobo

Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally...

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Track the Man Down
Track the Man Down

A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery....

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Hard Steel
Hard Steel

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition ...

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Bond Street
Bond Street

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Li...

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The Enchanted Loom
The Enchanted Loom

A study of the brain as miracle. Shows neuron structure, hemispheric organization, and the separatio...

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Suspect
Suspect

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. ...

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Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and ...

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Callan
Callan

David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assass...

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The Shop at Sly Corner
The Shop at Sly Corner

A shrewd ex-prisoner runs a successful antique shop -- until his assistant discovers the collectible...

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The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and hi...

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Private's Progress
Private's Progress

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of t...

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Tiger Bay
Tiger Bay

In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal k...

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Why Shoot the Teacher?
Why Shoot the Teacher?

It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadi...

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The Green Buddha
The Green Buddha

Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a...

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The Fishing Match
The Fishing Match

Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting K...

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Berlin Tunnel 21
Berlin Tunnel 21

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the...

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Libel
Libel

A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his ...

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Remembrance
Remembrance

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise,...

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Hang Up Your Brightest Colours
Hang Up Your Brightest Colours

Actor/writer Kenneth Griffith's polemic eulogy to Irish patriot Michael Collins....

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Snowball
Snowball

A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. Th...

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The Forest Rangers
The Forest Rangers

Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidenc...

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The Lion in Winter
The Lion in Winter

Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir....

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1984
1984

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by fall...

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Heavens Above!
Heavens Above!

A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, whe...

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A Fairy Story
A Fairy Story

A father tells his son a fairy story. Animated short....

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Love on the Dole
Love on the Dole

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lanca...

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Channel Incident
Channel Incident

During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to j...

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36 Hours
36 Hours

When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely co...

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Sky Riders
Sky Riders

When an industrialist's wife and kids are kidnapped by terrorists in Greece, the woman's ex-husband ...

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Great Catherine
Great Catherine

When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, ...

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The Gamblers
The Gamblers

Card cheats travel by cruise ship to the Adriatic coast to fleece a wealthy aristocrat....

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Nothing to Pay
Nothing to Pay

A group of Welsh rugby union supporters leave their village for the first time to watch an away game...

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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Four Weddings and a Funeral

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may ...

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Only Two Can Play
Only Two Can Play

John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights o...

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Fame Is the Spur
Fame Is the Spur

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately beco...

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Waterfront
Waterfront

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, w...

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The Prison
The Prison

A successful Paris magazine proprietor embarks on a destructive voyage of self-discovery after his w...

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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
The Black Sheep of Whitehall

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a ...

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Expresso Bongo
Expresso Bongo

A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation....

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The Frightened City
The Frightened City

A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job,...

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Blue Scar
Blue Scar

1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town....

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We Joined the Navy
We Joined the Navy

Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a...

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Chain of Events
Chain of Events

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences...

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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find them...

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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...

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Helter Skelter
Helter Skelter

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping....

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Rotten to the Core
Rotten to the Core

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have th...

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Black As Hell and Thick As Grass
Black As Hell and Thick As Grass

An account of two battles between Zulus and the British at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, from the 1...

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The Starfish
The Starfish

Three children, holidaying in a small Cornish fishing village, become intrigued by the locals' tales...

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Miss Knowall
Miss Knowall

Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime....

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The Naked Truth
The Naked Truth

Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the per...

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The Baby and the Battleship
The Baby and the Battleship

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds hims...

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Brothers in Law
Brothers in Law

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wro...

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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. ...

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The Two-Headed Spy
The Two-Headed Spy

Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobio...

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A French Mistress
A French Mistress

The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to ...

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The Public's Right to Know
The Public's Right to Know

A documentary in which Kenneth Griffith, actor and filmmaker, endeavors to find the truth behind the...

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Curious Journey
Curious Journey

The 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin was an armed rebellion by Irish republicans against British rule in...

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A Famous Journey
A Famous Journey

Actor and film-maker Kenneth Griffith traces the journey made by the Three Wise Men. Commissioned by...

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The Great Mr Handel
The Great Mr Handel

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal angu...

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Koroshi
Koroshi

Secret agent John Drake (aka Danger Man) goes to Japan to infiltrate a secret society that specialis...

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