Biography
Hugh Emrys Griffith was a Welsh actor. Described by BFI's Screenonline as a "wild-eyed, formidable character player", Griffith appeared in more than 100 theatre, film, and television productions in a career that spanned over 40 years. He was the second Welsh-born actor to win an Academy Award, winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Ben-Hur (1959), with a second nomination for Tom Jones (1963).
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Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1960
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1964 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1960 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Play · 1958 · nominated
Filmography29 titles
Ben-Hur
Kind Hearts and Coronets
How to Steal a Million
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Night Train to Munich
Mutiny on the Bounty
Oliver!
Man with a Million
The Titfield Thunderbolt
Exodus
Lux Video Theatre
The Counterfeit Traitor
Wuthering Heights
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
The Canterbury Tales
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Luther
Start the Revolution Without Me
Lights Out
Tom Jones
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
What?
Cry of the Banshee
The Final Programme
Craze
The Beggar's Opera
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
The Hound of the Baskervilles