Griffith Jones

Griffith Jones

Nacimiento : 1909-11-19, London, England, UK

Muerte : 2007-01-30

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Griffith Jones

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Macbeth
Duncan
La clásica tragedia de Shakespeare de ambición, brujas y asesinatos.
The Comedy of Errors
Aegeon
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together by circumstance.
The Apple Cart
Foreign Secretary
Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as the British cabinet and monarchy face a day of "crisis" for the country. King Magnus is happy to engage a prime minister seeking to transform the nation into a constitutional monarchy, but who truly rules in this democracy: the king, the government or the businessmen? And do any of them care about the people?
Decline and Fall of a Birdwatcher
Sir Humphrey Maltravers
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
Strangler's Web
Jackson Delacorte
What appears to be a cut-and-dried case of murder of an aging one time showgirl on Hampstead Heath by her lover is complicated by several factors, including a far more respectable paramour, and her insistence that a great inheritance was due her that nobody can verify.
Treasure Island
Long John Silver
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.
The Crowning Touch
Mark
Several stories linked by a hat.
Hidden Homicide
Michael Cornforth
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
Kill Her Gently
Jeff Martin
A motorist picks up to escaped convicts. Instead of turning them over to the police he hires them to kill his wife.
Not Wanted on Voyage
Guy Harding
the scheming Albert Higgins and his dim witted mate Cecil Hollebone, set out on a ocean voyage under the exasperated Chief Steward. Along for the trip are the wealthy Mrs. Borough and her secretary Pat. Soon Mrs. Boroughs’ Jewels are stolen…
Account Rendered
Robert Ainsworth
Police find that everyone had a motive for the murder of a wealthy woman.
Menace In The Night
Rapson
A woman (Lisa Gastoni) witnesses the theft of soiled banknotes from a mail delivery truck, then is threatened by the perpetrators of the crime.
The Truth About Women
Sir Jeremy
Un hombre recuerda sus relaciones con las mujeres que amó, mientras intenta ayudar a otro hombre a tratar de comprenderlas.
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Group Capt. Todd
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
Scarlet Web
Jake Winter
An insurance investigator is framed for murder after a pretty woman hires him to recover a letter from a man who wants to blackmail her.
Honeymoon Deferred
David Fry
After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
Once Upon a Dream
Jackson
An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
Good-Time Girl
Danny Martin
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Miranda
Dr. Paul Martin
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.
Look Before You Love
Charles Kent
Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.
Me hicieron un fugitivo
Narcy
Morgan se une a una banda dirigida por Narcy. En su primer encargo, huye de un accidente de coche después de matar a un policía. Pero acaba siendo reconocido como el conductor y es enviado a la cárcel. Buscando venganza se escapa y se dirige a Londres. En el camino lo ayuda una mujer (Sra. Fenshaw), que le encarga el asesinato de su marido...
The Rake's Progress
Sandy Duncan
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
La mujer bandido
Sir Ralph Skelton
La bella y ambiciosa Barbara Worth, una aventurera del siglo XVII, comienza su carrera de bandido robándole el novio a Caroline, su mejor amiga. Pero pronto descubre que la existencia junto a él, de nombre, Ralph Skelton, es demasiado aburrida y decide comenzar una nueva y emocionante vida ocultándose tras una máscara y lanzándose a los caminos para asaltar a los viajeros.
The Day Will Dawn
Police Inspector Gunter (as Griffiths Jones)
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
This Was Paris
Capt. Bill Hamilton
British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.
Atlantic Ferry
David MacIver
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Young Man's Fancy
Lord Alban
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
The Four Just Men
James Brodie
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
Marco Millions
Adaptation of the Eugene O'neill play.
Un yanqui en Oxford
Paul Beaumont
Lee Sheridan, un joven americano viene a estudiar a la Universidad de Oxford, pero desde el primer momento cae mal al resto de estudiantes, por su actitud descarada. Tras varios encontronazos con los profesores y la mujer del librero local, se convertirá en un héroe cuando se una al equipo de remo, para batir al eterno enemigo: la Universidad de Cambridge.
Return of a Stranger
James Martin
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.
The Wife of General Ling
John Fenton
In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chinese merchant-philanthropist and the agent thinks the merchant is working with the notorious Chinese guerilla warlord General Ling.
The Mill on the Floss
Stephen Guest
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
First a Girl
Robert
First a Girl is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews. First a Girl was adapted from the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria written and directed by Reinhold Schünzel.
Escape Me Never
Caryl Sanger
Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif.
Catalina de Rusia
Grigory Orlov
En 1745, una princesa austro-húngara, que sería llamada Catalina, llega a Rusia para casarse con el Gran Duque Pedro, un hombre de carácter inestable y desconfiado. Su matrimonio no funciona y mientras el Duque se entretiene con bellas cortesanas, Catalina inventa sus propios amantes para captar su atención. Cuando el Duque llega al trono de Rusia, resulta ser un pésimo gobernante y los consejeros piden a Catalina que asuma el poder y se convierta en reina.
Money Talks
Jimmy Dale
El viejo Abe Pilstein (Julian Rose) está a punto de heredar una gran suma de dinero de un pariente lejano. Sólo la obtendrá con la condición de que Abe pueda probar que lo necesita. Por lo tanto, Abe intenta gastar hasta el último centavo para poder demostrar que es pobre.
The Collection
Harry
An elderly homosexual and a married woman are both intrigued by the same man.