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Hugh Griffith

Hugh Griffith

Welsh actor (1912-1980)
May 30, 1912 (May 14, 1980)
G.-B. 1973. Sentimental comedy by David Askey with Cliff Richard, Debbie Watling, Hugh Griffith. A young banker falls in love with a girl to whom he refused a loan for the maintainance of her restaurant.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 1973. Science-fiction by Robert Fuest with Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Graham Crowden. After the death of his father who left him notes of fundamental importance, a young scientist must fight his brother to recover a microfilm.
Runtime: 73 min.

What?

V.O.: Che?
It. 1972. Fantasy comedy by Roman Polanski with Sydne Rome, Marcello Mastroianni, Hugh Griffith. After escaping from a rape, a hitchhiker ends up in an Italian villa occupied by various sex addicts.
Runtime: 114 min.

The Canterbury Tales

V.O.: I racconti di Canterbury
It. 1972. Sketches by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Laura Betti, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti. Pilgrims on their way to the Canterbury Cathedral tell each other bawdy tales to pass the time.
Runtime: 109 min.
G.-B. 1972. Horror by Robert Fuest with Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp. Fighting against an archaeologist, Dr. Phibes searches for the secret of immortality in Egypt for himself and his wife.
Runtime: 89 min.
G.-B. 1971. Horror by Robert Fuest with Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Peter Jeffrey. A madman decides to take revenge on the surgeons who caused the death of his wife during an operation that went wrong.
Runtime: 95 min.
G.-B. 1970. Sentimental drama by Robert Fuest with Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Harry Andrews. A foundling, who was raised in a wealthy family, falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1969. Comedy by Bud Yorkin with Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith. Two sets of twins, switched at birth, get involved in various misunderstandings on the eve of the French Revolution.
Runtime: 98 min.
G.-B. 1968. Musical by Carol Reed with Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Jack Wild. In nineteenth-century England, an orphan falls into the hands of thieves before meeting a rich protector.
Runtime: 146 min.
U.S. 1966. Police comedy by William Wyler with Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Charles Boyer. Mistaken for an art theft specialist, a detective agrees to help a young girl steal a statue from a museum.
Runtime: 123 min.
G.-B. 1964. Mores comedy by Duncan Wood with Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes. A naive Don Juan, a sailor by trade, sees all his love conquests spoiled.
Runtime: 102 min.
G.-B. 1963. Mores comedy by Tony Richardson with Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith. The adventures of a handsome fellow of illegitimate origin in eighteenth century England.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1961. Spy drama by George Seaton with William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith. A Swedish industrialist is forced by the Allies to work as a spy in Germany.
Runtime: 140 min.
G.-B. 1960. Crime drama by John Guillermin with Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Hugh Griffith. An American burglar is hired by Irish patriots to rob the Bank of England.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 1960. Epic by Otto Preminger with Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo. The fictionalized story of the formation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the beginning of the fighting between Jews and Arabs.
Runtime: 212 min.
U.S. 1959. Epic by William Wyler with Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet. Unjustly sent to the galleys by the Romans, a Jewish prince sets out to take his revenge.
Runtime: 220 min.
G.-B. 1957. Comedy by John Boulting with Ian Carmichael, Hugh Griffith, Sharon Acker. A young professor at a provincial university tries to win over his dean.
Runtime: 97 min.
G.-B. 1953. Drama by Peter Brook with Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway, Dorothy Tutin. In a London prison, a crook, sentenced to death, meets a musician who is inspired by him to compose an opera.
Runtime: 94 min.

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