Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Griffith

Рождение : 1921-10-12, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK

Смерть : 2006-06-25

История

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

Профиль

Kenneth Griffith

Фильмы

Very Annie Mary
Minister
Set in the fictional village of "Ogw" in the valleys of south-east Wales. After her father Jack suffers a stroke Annie Mary Pugh is forced to take care of him but uses the circumstances to emancipate herself and find the courage to sing once again.
Англичанин, который поднялся на холм, но спустился с горы
Reverend Jones
Двое англичан приезжают в 1917-ом году в уэльсскую деревушку в качестве картографов и наталкиваются на местный холм Финон-гавр, которому не хватает всего 16 футов, чтобы стать горой на карте. В Англии — если высота не менее 1000 футов, то это гора, а если менее 1000 футов, — это холм. Недовольные и эксцентричные жители деревни требуют перемерить гору, но упрямые картографы этого делать не желают. Тогда местные пускаются на хитрость, решая нарастить холм землей с местных полей…
Четыре свадьбы и одни похороны
Mad Old Man - Wedding One
Чарльз, 32-летний англичанин-интеллектуал, очень напрягается каждый раз, когда на горизонте вырисовывается перспектива женитьбы. Однажды, на очередной свадебной церемонии своего друга, он знакомится с очаровательной американкой Кэрри, и тут его оборонительная стратегия дает роковую трещину.
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
Isaac of York
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee, of course.
Remembrance
Joe
A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.
Who Dares Wins
Bishop Crick
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever
himself (presenter)
When in 1776 the United States of America broke away from Britain, a country without a written constitution, with an established Church and an unelected House of Lords, Thomas Paine, an artisan from Thetford in Norfolk, England, made a call for freedom that is still reverberating around the world today.
Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever
Writer
When in 1776 the United States of America broke away from Britain, a country without a written constitution, with an established Church and an unelected House of Lords, Thomas Paine, an artisan from Thetford in Norfolk, England, made a call for freedom that is still reverberating around the world today.
Berlin Tunnel 21
Bruno Balderbach
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Морские волки
Charlie Wilton
У них было меньше всего шансов стать героями Второй мировой. Ведь они — убеленные сединами ветераны Калькуттской легкой кавалерии.Эти добровольцы не были в бою со времен Бурской войны. Но у них есть шанс изменить ситуацию, когда они отложат в сторону свои клюшки для гольфа и отставят стаканы с джином, чтобы стать «Морскими волками».
Дикие гуси
Arthur Witty
Отряд наемников по заказу крупного британского промышленника пытается спасти африканского политического лидера. Но, когда они уже выполнили задание, их предают и бросают. Заказчик больше не нуждается в спасении человека, на которого ранее делал ставку в своей игре. Он сумел договориться о получении алмазных коней в африканской стране и без него. И ни африканский лидер, ни наемники ему больше не нужны. Теперь отряд вынужден самостоятельно пробиваться через превосходящие силы противника, теперь у них одна, единая цель — выжить…
Why Shoot the Teacher?
Inspector Woods
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
Всадники с неба
Wasserman
Группа террористов захватывает жену и ребенка крупного промышленника, требуя от него оружие в обмен на их жизни. Прежний супруг женщины-заложницы нанимает труппу циркачей-дельтапланеристов, вместе с ними и с их помощью приземляется на скалистом острове, где обосновались злодеи и где разворачивается невероятная операция по освобождению пленников…
S*P*Y*S
Lippet
Two CIA bunglers (Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould) botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
The Prison
Julien Bour
A successful Paris magazine proprietor embarks on a destructive voyage of self-discovery after his wife shoots dead her own sister, with whom he has had an affair for several years.
Callan
Waterman
David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assasination of a german businessman, but Callan refuses to co-operate until he finds out why this man is marked for death.
The House in Nightmare Park
Ernest Henderson
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s. Starring Hugh Burden and Oscar winner Ray Milland, and written by Terry Nation. Foster Twelvetrees, a struggling tragedian who scrapes a living by giving hammy performances from the classics, can hardly believe his luck when he’s invited to give a dramatic reading at the country home of a well-off family. Joy soon turns to outraged horror when he discovers dead bodies, foul intentions, lots of snakes and a madwoman in the attic. Can he uncover the hidden family secret before he comes to a sticky end..?
Hang Up Your Brightest Colours
Himself
Actor/writer Kenneth Griffith's polemic eulogy to Irish patriot Michael Collins.
Revenge
Seely
A British family takes revenge into its own hands in avenging their recently slain daughter.
Джен Эйр
Mason
Экранизация романа известной английской писательницы Шарлотты Бронте. В нем есть все, от чего так замирает сердце: первое робкое чувство, обманутые надежды, верные друзья и настоящая любовь. Джейн Эйр, скромная, но гордая и независимая девушка-сирота получает работу гувернантки в поместье Эдварда Рочестера. Эдвард старше Джейн на двадцать лет, но внезапно вспыхнувшее взаимное чувство влечет их друг к другу. В день свадьбы открывается страшная тайна...
The Gamblers
Broadfoot
Card cheats travel by cruise ship to the Adriatic coast to fleece a wealthy aristocrat.
Бюро убийств
Monsieur Popescu
Девушка, одержимая идеей равенства полов, Соня Винтер, ввязывается в весьма опасную авантюру. Став клиентом фирмы под устрашающим названием «Бюро убийств», она заказывает убийство самого главы этой организации Ивана Драгомилова. Иван, хорошо образованный молодой человек с высокими моральными устоями, унаследовавший дело своего отца, принимает заказ, бросив тем самым дерзкий вызов всем остальным членам организации…
Great Catherine
Naryshkin
When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.
Decline and Fall of a Birdwatcher
Mr. Church
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
Лев зимой
Strolling Player
1183 год. Во время Рождественских празднеств стареющий король Англии Генрих II должен назвать имя наследника. На это событие прибывают жена короля Элеанора Аквитанская, которая провела десять лет в тюрьме за участие в заговоре против монарха, любовница короля — тщеславная принцесса Алэ, ее брат, король Франции Филипп II Август и трое сыновей Генриха II: Ричард Львиное Сердце, Джеффри и Джон. Все члены семьи люто ненавидят друг друга. Их объединяет лишь одно — непомерная жажда власти и готовность пойти на любое предательство ради нее.
A Fairy Story
A father tells his son a fairy story. Animated short.
Шептуны
Mr. Weaver
Одинокая Маргарет Росс живет на социальное пособие, со дня на день ожидая крупную сумму денег от продажи имущества своего покойного отца. Обыденные предметы, будь то протекающий кран или радио, нередко вызывают у Маргарет ощущение, что за ней следят таинственные «они», которые никак не хотят оставить ее в покое. В полиции ей не верят, муж давно бросил ее, а сын практически не приходит. Как-то помочь Маргарет старается лишь социальный работник Конрад. Это фильм о человеческом одиночестве и о том, к чему оно может привести.
The Bobo
Pepe Gamazo
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Сгнивший насквозь
Lenny the Dip
Джелли, Скапа и Ленни с нетерпением ждут освобождения из тюрьмы, что бы поделить наследство своего босса, Дюка. Но Дюк оказывается жив и задумывает новое грандиозное ограбление.
The Airy Tomb
Narrator
Can there be a bleaker portrait of a life half-lived? Cinematic treatment of poet R.S. Thomas's story of Twm, the "shy soul" who lives and dies alone in the "grim house nailed to the mountainside", oblivious to the interest shown in him by young girls in the village and to his own isolation as he scratches a living from the farm.
Heavens Above!
Rev. Owen Thomas
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
We Joined the Navy
Orator
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
Nothing to Pay
Lydiat Shell
A group of Welsh rugby supporters leave their village for the first time to watch an away game in the city.
The Painted Smile
Kleinie
Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....
Only Two Can Play
Ieuan Jenkins
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
The Frightened City
Wally
A London accountant (Herbert Lom) forms six gangs into a syndicate which he tries to control with a killer (Sean Connery).
Rag Doll
Wilson
A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfriend become tempted by one of her older admirers money.
Payroll
Monty
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
Suspect
Dr Shole
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.
A French Mistress
Mr Meade
The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistress) effect on the boys is swift and amazing. Suddenly everyone wants extra French Lessons just to glimpse the teacher in revealing shorts and bikinis. As discipline crumbles, a scandal explodes when the Head discovers the mademoiselle's mother was an old flame. Madeline must be dismissed to save further embarrassments.
Circus of Horrors
Martin
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
Snowball
Phil Hart
A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.
Экспрессо Бонго
Charlie
Джонни Джексон, ушлый агент по подбору талантов, обнаруживает подростка Берта Раджа, поющего в кофейне. Несмотря на протесты Берта о том, что на самом деле его интересует только игра на бонго, Джонни организует его путь к славе. Однако сделка, которую они заключили, не устраивает молодого певца, и вскоре их отношения начинают портиться...
Клевета
Fitch
Ветеран Второй мировой войны, страдающий частичной потерей памяти, обвиняется своим бывшим сослуживцем в самозванстве...
Всё в порядке, Джэк
Dai
По возвращению из армии, Стенли Виндраш видит себя в роли управляющего в промышленной отрасли. Но, к сожалению, ему не удается благополучно устроиться, и он просит помощи у своего дяди Бертрама, главы завода по изготовлению оружия, который планирует нелегальную, прибыльную сделку, которая в результате оказывается не только разрушительной для завода, но и просто забавной.
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Sir John's Assistant (uncredited)
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
Тигровая бухта
Mr. Seymour
Джилли - девочка-сорванец, подглядывая за ссорящейся парочкой, становится свидетельницей случайного рокового выстрела: польский моряк по фамилии Корчинский возвратившийся из плавания в Кардифф, убивает свою подругу в приступе ревности. Джилли подбирает и прячет брошенный пистолет, проникается симпатией к неуравновешенному парню - убийце и хочет ему помочь. Ей удаётся ловко и изобретательно заморочить голову полицейским. Несмотря на прессинг, она не выдаёт убийцу, скрывает правду и изо всех сил защищает моряка...
The Two-Headed Spy
Adolf Hitler
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
Chain of Events
Clarke
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
The Man Upstairs
Pollen
The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidently kills the brother of his fiancee.
Гибель «Титаника»
Wireless Operator John 'Jack' Phillips
Апрель 1912 года. Незабываемая ночь, вошедшая в историю человечества как ночь самых страшных потерь и самых больших приобретений. Человеческие потери не сравнимы ни с чем, но и приобретения человеческого духа также невозможно ничем измерить. Итак, 14 апреля. В Соединенные Штаты отправляется самый классный, самый непотопляемый в мире пассажирский лайнер с 2 207 пассажирами и членами команды на борту.
Голая правда
Porter
Найджел Деннис, блестящий издатель бульварной газеты под названием «Голая правда», пытается шантажировать несколько видных деятелей. Те, в свою очередь, организауются вместе и разрабатывают планы по его устранению. Однако Найджелу каждый раз чудом удается ускользнуть от нависшей смертельной опасности.
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Charlie Bull
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
Lucky Jim
Cyril Johns
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
Brothers in Law
Hearse Driver
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
Tiger in the Smoke
Crutches
Having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero killed in France, Meg Elgin is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the distance wearing an old coat of her husband's. When he is pursued and captured, he turns out to be Duds Morrison a former soldier and out-of-work actor recently let out of prison. He refuses to tell them anything, and having nothing they can charge him with, the police release him. His interest aroused by the pictures sent to Meg, her new fiancé Geoffrey Leavitt follows Morrison and tries to demand an answer from him about his sudden appearance masquerading as Meg’s dead husband.
The Baby and the Battleship
Sub-Lieutenant
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
1984
Prisoner
Член внешней Партии Уинстон Смит пытается противостоять самой Партии, нечеловечески жестокому тоталитарному режиму. Он и его возлюбленная Джулия надеются на то, что Сопротивление — тайная организация, противостоящая режиму, или пролы (пролетариат) сумеют уничтожить Партию хоть в далёком будущем.
Private's Progress
Private Dai Jones
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
Track the Man Down
Ken Orwell (as Kenneth Griffiths)
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
The Prisoner
The Secretary
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
The Green Buddha
Nobby
Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Buddha boosters gain only jaded justice.
36 Hours
Henry Slosson
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
High Treason
Jimmy Ellis
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
The Starfish
Jack Trevennick
Supernatural fantasy made by John Schlesinger and Alan Cooke as students.
Waterfront Women
Maurice Bruno
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Blue Scar
Thomas Williams
1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town.
Forbidden
Johnny
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.
Helter Skelter
Nick Martin's BBC Colleague
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Bond Street
Len Phillips
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Во имя славы
Wartime Miners' Representative (uncredited)
Действие начинается в 1870 году, когда Хэмер Рэдшо, нищий работяга с Севера, посвящает свою жизнь борьбе за лучшую долю для рабочих. Меч, который его дед подобрал в 1819 году в Питерлоо (1819 год) при кровавом подавлении рабочих волнений, поднявших бунт за «хлеб и свободу», становится его символом и талисманом. Обладая внешней привлекательностью и обаянием, он может вдохновить рабочих на смерть во имя дела, а став членом лейбористского парламента, он выбирает линию наименьшего сопротивления, жертвуя старыми друзьями и заводя новых, которые ему нужны.
The Shop at Sly Corner
Archie Fellows
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is a receiver of stolen goods.
The Shop at Sly Corner
Archie Fellowes
A shrewd ex-prisoner runs a successful antique shop -- until his assistant discovers the collectibles are stolen goods and begins blackmailing him.
The Forest Rangers
Ranger
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
Hard Steel
Dixon
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Butcher's Boy
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Love on the Dole
Harry's Pal in Billiard Hall
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
The Farmer's Wife
George Smerdon
Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.
Miss Knowall
Chris
Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.
Channel Incident
Johnny
During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to search for her husband, a British soldier who was fighting in France and who may be among the troops waiting to be rescued.
Black As Hell and Thick As Grass
Presenter
An account of two battles between Zulus and the British at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift.