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	His sympathetic portrayal caused some concern, given [[The Troubles]] and ATV boss Sir [[Lew Grade]] decided to withdraw the film, which was not shown publicly until 1994. In response Griffith made a documentary, ''The Public's Right to Know'', for [[Thames TV]]. The political troubles left him "a frustrated and bemused figure". [[Screenonline]] described Griffith as "a world class documentary film-maker" who knew that "refusing to compromise his views has damaged his career".<ref name="bbcobit">{{cite web\|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5115424.stm\|title=Actor Kenneth Griffith dies at 84\|publisher=BBC\|access-date=23 August 2017}}</ref>		His sympathetic portrayal caused some concern, given [[The Troubles]] and ATV boss Sir [[Lew Grade]] decided to withdraw the film, which was not shown publicly until 1994. In response Griffith made a documentary, ''The Public's Right to Know'', for [[Thames TV]]. The political troubles left him "a frustrated and bemused figure". [[Screenonline]] described Griffith as "a world class documentary film-maker" who knew that "refusing to compromise his views has damaged his career".<ref name="bbcobit">{{cite web\|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5115424.stm\|title=Actor Kenneth Griffith dies at 84\|publisher=BBC\|access-date=23 August 2017}}</ref>

	His autobiography, ''The Fool's Pardon'', was published in 1994 by [[Little, Brown and Company\|Little, Brown]].~~{{citation needed\|date=July 2020}}~~ [[BBC Wales]] presented a retrospective season of five of his documentaries in 1993, including the suppressed Michael Collins work, opening the season with a biographical study of Griffith called ''The Tenby Poisoner'' in which [[Peter O'Toole]], [[Martin McGuinness]] and [[Jeremy Isaacs]] paid tribute.<ref name=screenonline>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/772297/index.html\|title=BFI Screenonline: Griffith, Kenneth (1921-2006) Biography\|website=screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> BBC Wales screened a film on Griffith's life in the "Welsh Greats" Series Two, shown in 2008.~~{{citation needed\|date=July 2020}}~~ In 1994, Griffith was given a Cymru lifetime achievement award by [[BAFTA]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1994/cymru/special-award-bafta-cymru-lifetime-achievement-award\|title=1994 Cymru Special Award: BAFTA Cymru Lifetime Achievement Award \| BAFTA Awards\|website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref>		His autobiography, ''The Fool's Pardon'', was published in 1994 by [[Little, Brown and Company\|Little, Brown]]. [[BBC Wales]] presented a retrospective season of five of his documentaries in 1993, including the suppressed Michael Collins work, opening the season with a biographical study of Griffith called ''The Tenby Poisoner'' in which [[Peter O'Toole]], [[Martin McGuinness]] and [[Jeremy Isaacs]] paid tribute.<ref name=screenonline>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/772297/index.html\|title=BFI Screenonline: Griffith, Kenneth (1921-2006) Biography\|website=screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> BBC Wales screened a film on Griffith's life in the "Welsh Greats" Series Two, shown in 2008. In 1994, Griffith was given a Cymru lifetime achievement award by [[BAFTA]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1994/cymru/special-award-bafta-cymru-lifetime-achievement-award\|title=1994 Cymru Special Award: BAFTA Cymru Lifetime Achievement Award \| BAFTA Awards\|website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref>

	A [[Boer War]] historian, Griffith was sympathetic to the [[Afrikaner]]s in South Africa. His opinion, in a South African television-funded documentary, released in 1984, was "provokingly sympathetic" towards the Afrikaners; South African television eventually withdrew its funding.<ref name="GuardObit">{{cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1806549,00.html\|title=Kenneth Griffith\|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]\|date=27 June 2006\|access-date=14 July 2009\|location=London, UK\|first=Dennis\|last=Barker}}</ref> He made a [[BBC2]] documentary on runner [[Zola Budd]], which purported to reveal injustices done to her by left-wing demonstrators and organisations during a tour of England in 1988.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/429297\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129084651/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/429297\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=29 January 2009\|title=Zola Budd - The Girl Who Didn't Run (1989)\|website=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk\|access-date=23 August 2017}}</ref><ref>[http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/true-to-his-beliefs-2335553 True to his beliefs], [[WalesOnline]], 28 June 2006.</ref>		A [[Boer War]] historian, Griffith was sympathetic to the [[Afrikaner]]s in South Africa. His opinion, in a South African television-funded documentary, released in 1984, was "provokingly sympathetic" towards the Afrikaners; South African television eventually withdrew its funding.<ref name="GuardObit">{{cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1806549,00.html\|title=Kenneth Griffith\|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]\|date=27 June 2006\|access-date=14 July 2009\|location=London, UK\|first=Dennis\|last=Barker}}</ref> He made a [[BBC2]] documentary on runner [[Zola Budd]], which purported to reveal injustices done to her by left-wing demonstrators and organisations during a tour of England in 1988.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/429297\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129084651/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/429297\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=29 January 2009\|title=Zola Budd - The Girl Who Didn't Run (1989)\|website=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk\|access-date=23 August 2017}}</ref><ref>[http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/true-to-his-beliefs-2335553 True to his beliefs], [[WalesOnline]], 28 June 2006.</ref>

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	==Career==		==Career==
	Griffith left school and moved to [[Cambridge]] in 1937, taking a job at an [[ironmonger]]'s weighing nails. This lasted only a day, and proved to be the only job he ever had outside the acting world.~~{{citation needed\|date=July 2020}}~~ Also in 1937, he made his first professional acting appearance when he was cast by Peter Hoare as Cinna the Poet in a modern-dress version of ''[[Julius Caesar (play)\|Julius Caesar]]'' at the [[Cambridge Festival Theatre]].<ref name="IndpObit"/>		Griffith left school and moved to [[Cambridge]] in 1937, taking a job at an [[ironmonger]]'s weighing nails. This lasted only a day, and proved to be the only job he ever had outside the acting world. Also in 1937, he made his first professional acting appearance when he was cast by Peter Hoare as Cinna the Poet in a modern-dress version of ''[[Julius Caesar (play)\|Julius Caesar]]'' at the [[Cambridge Festival Theatre]].<ref name="IndpObit"/>

	He became a regular jobbing repertory actor, making his [[West End theatre]] debut in 1938 with a small part in [[Thomas Dekker (writer)\|Thomas Dekker]]'s ''[[The Shoemaker's Holiday]]''.<ref name="TelgObit">{{cite news\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1522387/Kenneth-Griffith.html\|title=Kenneth Griffith obituary\|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]\|date=27 June 2006\|access-date=14 July 2009}}</ref>		He became a regular jobbing repertory actor, making his [[West End theatre]] debut in 1938 with a small part in [[Thomas Dekker (writer)\|Thomas Dekker]]'s ''[[The Shoemaker's Holiday]]''.<ref name="TelgObit">{{cite news\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1522387/Kenneth-Griffith.html\|title=Kenneth Griffith obituary\|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]\|date=27 June 2006\|access-date=14 July 2009}}</ref>

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{{short description|Welsh actor}}
{{Distinguish|Ken Griffiths}}
{{for|the South African cricketer|Kenneth Griffith (cricketer)}}
{{Multiple issues|
{{More citations needed|date=August 2017}}
{{POV|date=August 2017}}{{Cleanup|reason=Sources needs to be checked against statements & the thing could do with a rewrite because it is confusing in parts — see my{{who|date=January 2022}} recent edit summaries|date=July 2020}}
{{intro too short|date=January 2022}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Kenneth Griffith
| image = Kenneth griffith 1976.jpeg
| imagesize = 250px
| alt =
| caption = Griffith in the 1976 BBC production ''Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death''
| birthname = Kenneth Reginald Griffiths
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|10|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Tenby]], [[Pembrokeshire]], Wales
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|6|25|1921|10|12|df=y}}
| death_place = [[London]], England
| othername =
| occupation = Actor, television producer, television presenter
| years_active = 1937–2003
| spouse = Joan Stock (divorced)<br>Doria Noar (divorced) <br>Carol Hagar (divorced)
| children = 5
}}

'''Kenneth Griffith''' (born '''Kenneth Reginald Griffiths''', 12 October 1921 – 25 June 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.

==Early life==
He was born Kenneth Griffiths in [[Tenby]], [[Pembrokeshire]], Wales. His parents separated and left Tenby six months after his birth, leaving him with his paternal grandparents, Emily and Ernest, who adopted him. His grandparents were staunch Wesleyan Methodists who taught him to question everything;<ref name="TelgObit"/> he attended the local [[Methodist Church of Great Britain|Wesleyan Methodist]] chapel three times every Sunday, and became a lively [[rugby union]] scrum-half.<ref name="GuardObit"/>

He passed the [[Eleven-plus exam|11-plus]] and attended [[Ysgol Greenhill School|Greenhill Grammar School]] in Tenby, where he met [[English literature]] teacher Evelyn Ward, who recognised his writing and acting talent. Before Kenneth left school, his headmaster J. T. Griffith suggested that he drop the "s" from his surname so it would sound less English.<ref name="IndpObit">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kenneth-griffith-6097067.html|title=Kenneth Griffith |newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=27 June 2006|access-date=14 July 2009}}</ref>

==Career==
Griffith left school and moved to [[Cambridge]] in 1937, taking a job at an [[ironmonger]]'s weighing nails. This lasted only a day, and proved to be the only job he ever had outside the acting world.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} Also in 1937, he made his first professional acting appearance when he was cast by Peter Hoare as Cinna the Poet in a modern-dress version of ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' at the [[Cambridge Festival Theatre]].<ref name="IndpObit"/>

He became a regular jobbing repertory actor, making his [[West End theatre]] debut in 1938 with a small part in [[Thomas Dekker (writer)|Thomas Dekker]]'s ''[[The Shoemaker's Holiday]]''.<ref name="TelgObit">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1522387/Kenneth-Griffith.html|title=Kenneth Griffith obituary|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=27 June 2006|access-date=14 July 2009}}</ref>

Griffith was conscripted into the [[Royal Air Force]] during World War II. Before training in Canada, he returned to see his grandparents in Tenby, who, at his request, gave him an English translation of Hitler's book, ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' so he could better understand the origins of the war.<ref name="IndpObit"/> He caught [[scarlet fever]] while on his training and was invalided out of the service in 1942, which resulted in his taking up [[stamp collecting]]. The first stamp he collected was the [[Siege of Ladysmith]], South Africa.<ref name="TelgObit"/><ref name="IndpObit"/>

In 1941, he made his debut in the first of more than 80 films, being ''[[Love on the Dole (film)|Love on the Dole]]''.<ref name="IndpObit"/> He joined the [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]]-relocated [[Old Vic]],<ref name="TelgObit"/> and in repertory.<ref name=screenonline/>

He appeared in many British films between the 1940s and 1980s, notably as Archie Fellows in ''[[The Shop at Sly Corner]]'', Jenkins in ''[[Only Two Can Play]]'' (1962), the wireless operator Jack Phillips on board the ''Titanic'' in ''[[A Night to Remember (1958 film)|A Night to Remember]]'' (1958), in the crime caper ''[[Track the Man Down]]'' (1955) and especially in the comedies of [[John and Roy Boulting|the Boulting brothers]], including ''[[Private's Progress]]'' (1956) and ''[[I'm All Right Jack]]'' (1959).<ref name=bfi/> Other notable film roles included the murderous [[paedophile]] Seely in ''[[Revenge (1971 film)|Revenge]]'' (1971), the [[gay]] medic Witty in ''[[The Wild Geese]]'' (1978) and a whimsical mechanic in ''[[The Sea Wolves]]'' (1980).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/11/14/the-wild-geese-betrayal-of-the-african-mercenaries/25089c29-dbce-4e32-83b0-d64ed4dffdf4/|title='The Wild Geese': Betrayal of the African Mercenaries|first=Gary|last=Arnold|date=14 November 1978|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref name=screenonline/>

He appeared in the episodes "[[The Girl Who Was Death]]" and "[[Fall Out (The Prisoner)|Fall Out]]" of the 1967–68 TV series ''[[The Prisoner]]''.<ref name=bfi/> Subsequent TV appearances included episodes of ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'' and ''[[Lovejoy]]'', and critically acclaimed performances in ''War and Peace'' (1963), ''The Perils of Pendragon'', ''[[Clochemerle (TV series)|Clochemerle]]'' and ''The Bus to Bosworth'', where his personification of a Welsh schoolteacher out on a field trip won him many accolades back in his homeland of Wales.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=7053|title=Kenneth Griffith|website=aveleyman.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f2d961db3f9b47e28c204dfa1d2cf373|title=Bus to Bosworth|date=29 February 1976|issue=2729|pages=20|via=BBC Genome}}</ref>

His later film roles included the "mad old man" in ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]'' (1994), Reverend Jones in ''[[The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain]]'' (1995) and the minister in ''[[Very Annie Mary]]'' (2001).<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba15c6892|title=Kenneth Griffith|website=BFI}}</ref>

==Documentaries and political activity==
In 1965, [[Huw Wheldon]] and the director of [[BBC Two|BBC2]], [[David Attenborough]], asked Griffith if he would like to make a film for the BBC on any subject that he chose. This resulted in a series of BBC films on subjects as diverse as the [[Boer War]] in ''Soldiers of the Widow'' (1967), ''A Touch of Churchill'', ''A Touch of Hitler'' (1971), the controversial story of [[Thomas Paine]] in ''The Most Valuable Englishman Ever'', [[David Ben-Gurion]] (''The Light''), [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] (''The Man on the Rock''), [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], [[Roger Casement]] (''Heart of Darkness'', 1992) and on one occasion a film commissioned by [[Thames Television]] on the story of the [[Magi|Three Wise Men]] of the [[New Testament]], ''A Famous Journey'' (1979). Griffith was expelled from Iran by the country's Foreign Minister.{{Why|date=August 2017}}<ref name=screenonline/>

In 1973, Griffith made a documentary film about the life and death of Irish military and political leader [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] titled ''[[Hang Up Your Brightest Colours]]'' (which is a line taken from a letter from [[George Bernard Shaw]] to one of Collins' sisters after Collins' assassination) for [[Associated Television Network|ATV]], but the [[Independent Broadcasting Authority]] did not permit it to be screened (it was not shown until the [[BBC]] broadcast it in 1993).<ref name=irishtimes>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/welsh-film-maker-fascinated-by-irish-history-1.1019012|title=Welsh film-maker fascinated by Irish history|website=The Irish Times}}</ref>

In 1974, for a programme titled ''Curious Journey'', he interviewed nine surviving IRA members from the 1916–23 period, i.e. the [[Easter Rising|Easter Rebellion]], [[Irish War of Independence|Anglo-Irish War]] and [[Irish Civil War]]; they were Maire Comerford, Joseph Sweeney, Sean Kavanagh, John O'Sullivan, Brigid Thornton, Sean Harling, Martin Walton, David Nelligan (or Neligan) and [[Tom Barry (soldier)|Tom Barry]]. He was allowed to buy this last film back, as long as he did not mention who had commissioned it (the Welsh TV company [[ITV Wales & West|HTV]]). At one point in his career, Griffith accused the anti-censorship group, [[Index on Censorship|Index]], of censoring him by delaying the publication of two book reviews he had written for its magazine.<ref name="GuardObit"/>

His sympathetic portrayal caused some concern, given [[The Troubles]] and ATV boss Sir [[Lew Grade]] decided to withdraw the film, which was not shown publicly until 1994. In response Griffith made a documentary, ''The Public's Right to Know'', for [[Thames TV]]. The political troubles left him "a frustrated and bemused figure". [[Screenonline]] described Griffith as "a world class documentary film-maker" who knew that "refusing to compromise his views has damaged his career".<ref name="bbcobit">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5115424.stm|title=Actor Kenneth Griffith dies at 84|publisher=BBC|access-date=23 August 2017}}</ref>

His autobiography, ''The Fool's Pardon'', was published in 1994 by [[Little, Brown and Company|Little, Brown]].{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} [[BBC Wales]] presented a retrospective season of five of his documentaries in 1993, including the suppressed Michael Collins work, opening the season with a biographical study of Griffith called ''The Tenby Poisoner'' in which [[Peter O'Toole]], [[Martin McGuinness]] and [[Jeremy Isaacs]] paid tribute.<ref name=screenonline>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/772297/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Griffith, Kenneth (1921-2006) Biography|website=screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> BBC Wales screened a film on Griffith's life in the "Welsh Greats" Series Two, shown in 2008.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} In 1994, Griffith was given a Cymru lifetime achievement award by [[BAFTA]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1994/cymru/special-award-bafta-cymru-lifetime-achievement-award|title=1994 Cymru Special Award: BAFTA Cymru Lifetime Achievement Award | BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref>

A [[Boer War]] historian, Griffith was sympathetic to the [[Afrikaner]]s in South Africa. His opinion, in a South African television-funded documentary, released in 1984, was "provokingly sympathetic" towards the Afrikaners; South African television eventually withdrew its funding.<ref name="GuardObit">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1806549,00.html|title=Kenneth Griffith|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=27 June 2006|access-date=14 July 2009|location=London, UK|first=Dennis|last=Barker}}</ref> He made a [[BBC2]] documentary on runner [[Zola Budd]], which purported to reveal injustices done to her by left-wing demonstrators and organisations during a tour of England in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/429297|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129084651/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/429297|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 January 2009|title=Zola Budd - The Girl Who Didn't Run (1989)|website=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk|access-date=23 August 2017}}</ref><ref>[http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/true-to-his-beliefs-2335553 True to his beliefs], [[WalesOnline]], 28 June 2006.</ref>

He named his home (110 Englefield Road, [[Islington]], [[London]]) as Michael Collins' House. In later life, Griffith said: "In my time I've been accused of being a Marxist, a fascist, a traitor and, probably worst in most people's eyes, inconsistent. I was a radical Socialist. I'm now a radical Tory. It has been a very painful journey".<ref name="TelgObit"/>

==Personal life==
Griffith was married and divorced three times, and had five children:<ref name="GuardObit"/><ref name="IndpObit"/><ref>Barker 2011.</ref>
* Joan Stock (two sons)
* Doria Noar (one daughter, actress/theatre historian [[Eva Griffith]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.evagriffith.com/biography/ |title=Biography: Dr Eva Griffith |publisher=Eva Griffith |access-date=9 July 2020 }}</ref>)
* Carole Hagar (one daughter, one son)

==Death and burial==
Griffith died in London on 25 June 2006, aged 84. His coffin was decorated with the flags of Wales, Israel and the Irish tricolour. Griffith was interred beside his grandparents, Emily and Ernest in the churchyard adjoining St Nicholas and St Teilo Church in [[Penally]].<ref name=irishtimes/>

==Legacy==
[[Tenby Museum and Art Gallery]] in Pembrokeshire houses an archive of Griffith's papers and documentaries, and a cabinet containing a collection of personal memorabilia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tenbymuseum.org.uk/on-this-day-in-1947/|title=Tenby Museum & Art Gallery » On this day in 1947}}</ref>

==Filmography==
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* ''[[Channel Incident]]'' (1940) as Johnnie
* ''[[The Farmer's Wife (1941 film)|The Farmer's Wife]]'' (1941) as George Smerdon
* ''[[Love on the Dole (film)|Love on the Dole]]'' (1941) as Harry's Pal in Billiard Hall (uncredited)
* ''[[The Black Sheep of Whitehall]]'' (1942) as Butcher's Boy (uncredited)
* ''[[Hard Steel]]'' (1942) as Dixon
* ''[[The Forest Rangers (film)|The Forest Rangers]]'' (1942) as Ranger
* ''[[The Great Mr. Handel]]'' (1942) as Minor role (uncredited)
* ''[[Young and Willing]]'' (1943) as Older Actor (uncredited)
* ''[[The Shop at Sly Corner]]'' (1947) as Archie Fellows
* ''[[Fame Is the Spur (film)|Fame Is the Spur]]'' (1947) as Wartime Miners' Representative (uncredited)
* ''[[Bond Street (film)|Bond Street]]'' (1948) as Len Phillips
* ''[[Forbidden (1949 film)|Forbidden]]'' (1949) as Johnny
* ''[[Helter Skelter (1949 film)|Helter Skelter]]'' (1949) as Nick Martin's BBC Colleague (uncredited)
* ''[[Blue Scar]]'' (1949) as Thomas Williams
* ''[[Waterfront (1950 film)|Waterfront]]'' (1950) as Maurice Bruno
* ''[[High Treason (1951 film)|High Treason]]'' (1951) as Jimmy Ellis
* ''[[36 Hours (1953 film)|36 Hours]]'' (1953) as Henry Slosson
* ''[[The Green Carnation (film)|The Green Carnation]]'' (1954) as Nobby
* ''[[The Prisoner (1955 film)|The Prisoner]]'' (1955) as the Secretary
* ''[[Track the Man Down]]'' (1955) as Ken Orwell
* ''[[Private's Progress]]'' (1956) as Private Dai Jones
* ''[[1984 (1956 film)|1984]]'' (1956) as Prisoner
* ''[[The Baby and the Battleship]]'' (1956) as Sub-Lieutenant
* ''[[Tiger in the Smoke]]'' (1956) as Crutches
* ''[[Brothers in Law (film)|Brothers in Law]]'' (1957) as Hearse Driver
* ''[[Lucky Jim (1957 film)|Lucky Jim]]'' (1957) as Cyril Johns
* ''[[The Naked Truth (1957 film)|The Naked Truth]]'' (1957) as Porter
* ''[[Blue Murder at St Trinian's]]'' (1957) as Charlie Bull
* ''[[A Night to Remember (1958 film)|A Night to Remember]]'' (1958) as Wireless Operator [[Jack Phillips (wireless officer)|John 'Jack' Phillips]]
* ''[[Chain of Events]]'' (1958) as Clarke
* ''[[The Man Upstairs (1958 film)|The Man Upstairs]]'' (1958) as Mr. Pollen
* ''[[The Two-Headed Spy]]'' (1958) as [[Adolf Hitler]]
* ''[[Tiger Bay (1959 film)|Tiger Bay]]'' (1959) as Choirmaster
* ''[[Carlton-Browne of the F.O.]]'' (1959) as Sir John's Assistant, Griffths (uncredited)
* ''[[I'm All Right Jack]]'' (1959) as Dai
* ''[[Libel (film)|Libel]]'' (1959) as Fitch
* ''[[Expresso Bongo]]'' (1959) as Charlie (uncredited)
* ''[[Circus of Horrors]]'' (1960) as Martin
* ''[[A French Mistress]]'' (1960) as Mr. Meade
* ''[[Suspect (1960 film)|Suspect]]'' (1960) as Dr. Shole
* ''[[Snowball (1960 film)|Snowball]]'' (1960) as Phil Hart
* ''[[Payroll (film)|Payroll]]'' (1961) as Monty
* ''[[Rag Doll (film)|Rag Doll]]'' (1961) as Wilson
* ''[[The Frightened City]]'' (1961) as Wally Smith
* ''[[Only Two Can Play]]'' (1962) as Ieuan Jenkins
* ''[[The Painted Smile]]'' (1962) as Kleinie
* ''[[We Joined the Navy]]'' (1962) as Orator
* ''[[Heavens Above!]]'' (1963) as Rev. Owen Thomas
* ''[[Rotten to the Core (film)|Rotten to the Core]]'' (1965) as Lenny the Dip
* ''[[The Whisperers]]'' (1967) as Mr. Weaver
* ''[[The Bobo]]'' (1967) as Pepe Gamazo
* ''[[The Prisoner]]'' (1968) as The President / Schnipps / Number Two
* ''[[Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher]]'' (1968) as Mr. Church
* ''[[The Lion in Winter (1968 film)|The Lion in Winter]]'' (1968) as Strolling Player
* ''[[Great Catherine (film)|Great Catherine]]'' (1968) as Naryshkin
* ''[[The Assassination Bureau]]'' (1969) as Monsieur Popescu
* ''[[The Gamblers (1970 film)|The Gamblers]]'' (1970) as Broadfoot
* ''[[Revenge (1971 film)|Revenge]]'' (1971) as Seely
* ''[[Clochemerle (TV series)|Clochemerle]]'' (TV Series) (1972) as Ernest Tafardel
* ''[[The House in Nightmare Park]]'' (1973) as Ernest Henderson
* ''[[Callan (film)|Callan]]'' (1974) as Waterman
* ''[[S*P*Y*S]]'' (1974) as Lippet
* ''[[Sky Riders]]'' (1976) as Wasserman
* ''[[Why Shoot the Teacher]]'' (1977) as Inspector Woods
* ''[[The Wild Geese]]'' (1978) as Arthur Witty
* ''[[The Sea Wolves]]'' (1980) as Wilton
* ''[[Who Dares Wins (film)|Who Dares Wins]]'' (1982) as Bishop Crick
* ''[[Remembrance (1982 film)|Remembrance]]'' (1982) as Joe
* ''[[The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood]]'' (1984) as Isaac of York
* ''[[Emily Hobhouse: The Englishwoman]]'' (1985) as Presenter
* ''[[Shaka Zulu (TV series)|Shaka Zulu]]'' (TV series) (1986) as Zacharias Abrahams
* ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]'' (1994) as Mad Old Man - Wedding One and Four
* ''[[The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain]]'' (1995) as Reverend Jones
* ''[[Very Annie Mary]]'' (2001) as Minister
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
*{{cite odnb |first=Dennis |last=Barker |title=Griffith, Kenneth Reginald (1921–2006) |id=97229 |orig-year=2010 |year=2011 }}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0341558}}

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