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Fred Griffiths (8 March 1912 – 27 August 1994) was an English film and television actor.
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Birth name Frederick David Griffiths
Birth 8 march 1912
Death 27 august 1994 (at 82 years)
Birth 8 march 1912
Death 27 august 1994 (at 82 years)
Fred Griffiths (8 March 1912 – 27 August 1994) was an English film and television actor.
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The Over-Amorous Artist (1974)
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors John Hamill, Sue Longhurst, Hilary Pritchard, John Bluthal, Bob Todd, Fred Griffiths
Roles Window Cleaner
Rating54%
While his beautiful wife (Sue Longhurst) is at work, an artist Alan Street (John Hamill) has to fend off the advances of his amorous female neighbours.
Love Thy Neighbour (1973)
, 1h25Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Kate Williams, Bill Fraser, Charles Hyatt, Patricia Hayes
Roles Taxi Driver
Rating59%
Eddie and Joan Booth live next door to Bill and Barbie Reynolds. Whilst Joan and Barbie are best friends as well as neighbours, Bill and Eddie are complete opposites in all things, including colour. Unbeknown to their husbands Joan and Barbie enter a Love Thy Neighbour competition to win a cruise, but are unsure how to get around the problem of their antagonistic husbands. To add to the problems Joan's Mother In Law is coming to stay, and Barbie has her Father In Law Coming from Trinidad. What will Bill and Eddie do when they realise their parents get on?
No Sex Please: We're British (1973)
, 1h31Directed by Cliff Owen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Ronnie Corbett, Ian Ogilvy, Susan Penhaligon, Beryl Reid, Arthur Lowe, Deryck Guyler
Roles Delivery Man
Rating54%
Runnicles, a clerk in a small-town British bank (openly depicted in the film as the branch of Barclays Bank in Windsor High Street), is horrified when a package arrives containing pornography rather than the new calculator he expected. His efforts to dispose of it, while avoiding detection, turn into a farcical series of events including a bank inspector, the police and a local criminal to whom the pornography actually belongs.
Steptoe & Son (1972)
, 1h38Directed by Cliff Owen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Carolyn Seymour, Victor Maddern, Lon Satton, Fred Griffiths
Roles Barman
Rating64%
During a gentlemen's evening at a local football club, Harold meets one of the acts, a stripper called Zita. After a whirlwind romance the couple are married, although the actual wedding ceremony is delayed when Albert, acting as best man, loses the ring somewhere in the yard. They eventually find it in a pile of horse manure, and since they have no time to clean up their arrival in church is met with looks of disgust.
Up the Chastity Belt (1972)
, 1h34Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Frankie Howerd, Graham Crowden, Bill Fraser, Norman Beaton, David Prowse, Roy Hudd
Roles Father
Rating51%
Howerd played dual roles as King Richard the Lionheart and cowardly peasant Lurkalot (his character in Up Pompeii was the slave Lurcio). The plot served as an excuse to serve up the usual collection of puns and double entendres that characterised most British film comedy in the 1970s, but did feature Eartha Kitt singing "A Knight for My Nights" and Hugh Paddick (of Julian and Sandy fame in the Round the Horne BBC radio series) as a notable Robin Hood, leader of a band of men who were camp homosexual rather than merry.
Dad's Army (1971)
, 1h35Directed by Norman Cohen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Arthur Lowe, Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier, John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley
Roles Bert King
Rating68%
1940 - Operation Dynamo has just taken place. From the newly conquered French coastline, a Wehrmacht colonel looks out over the English Channel with powerful binoculars. Surveying the white cliffs of Dover, he spies Godfrey emerging from a lavatory. Godfrey joins the rest of his platoon, who are defiantly waving the Union Flag. The colonel fumes contemptuously, "How can the stupid British ever hope to win?!"
Perfect Friday (1970)
, 1h35Directed by Peter Hall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Ursula Andress, Stanley Baker, David Warner, T.P. McKenna, Joan Benham, Julian Orchard
Roles Taxi Driver
Rating63%
The story revolves around three people -- Lord Nicholas Dorset and his wife Britt, for whom luxury is a necessity, and their bank manager Mr. Graham. Over the years, Mr. Graham has devised a plan to rob his own bank. His clients' desperate financial straits make them ideal accomplices in his eyes, but to ensure their loyalty he makes love to Britt after sending her husband away, then bribes Nick with a retainer.
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
, 1h51Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about computing, Politique, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oskar Homolka, Françoise Dorléac, Donald Sutherland
Roles Taxi Driver
Rating59%
Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), who has left MI5 to work as a private investigator, is told by a mechanical voice on the phone to take a package to Helsinki. The package contains six virus-laden eggs that have been stolen from the British government's research facility at Porton Down. In Helsinki, he is met by Anya (Françoise Dorléac) who takes him to meet her handler, Harry's old friend Leo Newbigen (Karl Malden). Leo is in love with Anya, but Harry knows that she is only pretending to reciprocate. Leo takes Harry to a secret room where a computer issues daily instructions to Leo and Anya. The computer speaks in the same voice as the one which summoned Harry to Helsinki.
To Sir, with Love (1967)
, 1h45Directed by James Clavell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Ann Bell, Lulu, Geoffrey Bayldon
Roles Market Stallholder
Rating75%
Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier), an unemployed man, applies for an engineering job but it will be a long time before a decision is made. He also applies for, and is awarded, a teaching position at the North Quay Secondary School in the tough East End of London. He comes from British Guyana via California.
The Big Job (1965)
, 1h25Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Sid James, Dick Emery, Joan Sims, Sylvia Syms, Jim Dale, Lance Percival
Roles Dustman
Rating63%
England, 1950. A gang of robbers led by the self-proclaimed George 'The Great' Brain (Sid James) rob a bank, stealing £50,000. However, due to a mix-up, they are pursued and caught by the police. He manages to stash away the money in the trunk of a hollow tree, before he is collared. The gang are then sentenced to serve fifteen years in Wormwood Scrubs prison.
Ring of Spies (1964)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack, David Kossoff, Thorley Walters, Philip Latham
Roles News vendor
Rating64%
A dissatisfied Navy clerk begins handling secret documents when he is approached by secret Czech intelligence to hand over documents to them. Although he is being blackmailed, he agrees to do so while also being paid for the information. He begins an affair with the secretary who also has access to greater secret documents. Together, the couple continue to procure information for Czech intelligence while getting paid. Soon, the British government gets wind of their betrayal.
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
, 1h21Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson, Bud Tingwell, Gordon Harris
Roles Landlord (uncredited)
Rating71%
While Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) and Mr Stringer (Stringer Davis) are soliciting donations for a charity, they visit Mr. Enderby (Finlay Currie), a rich and eccentric recluse. He tumbles down a staircase, apparently the victim of a fatal heart attack. Knowing that Enderby had a pathological fear of cats, Miss Marple becomes suspicious when she finds one in the house. She also finds a piece of mud bearing the print of a riding boot, but when she goes to Inspector Craddock (Bud Tingwell), he is sceptical, believing that Enderby died of natural causes.
Over the Odds (1962)
, 1h5Origin United-kingdom
Actors Marjorie Rhodes, Cyril Smith, Esma Cannon, Dame Thora Hird, Wilfrid Lawson, Frances Cuka
Roles Fruit Vendor
Doctor in Love (1960)
, 1h33Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors James Robertson Justice, Michael Craig, Virginia Maskell, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Carole Lesley
Roles Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Rating57%
Dr Richard Hare is a recently graduated medical intern at St Swithins Hospital. When his new romantic interest, nurse Sally Nightingale, suddenly leaves the hospital, he is devastated. He also leaves after being offered a job in private practice. But when his senior partner, Dr Cardew, has to visit California for a few months, Hare is left in charge. Dr Nicola Barrington joins the practice and Hare is suddenly in love again.
Light Up the Sky! (1960)
, 1h30Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Ian Carmichael, Tommy Steele, Dick Emery, Benny Hill, Sydney Tafler, Victor Maddern
Roles Mr Jennings
Rating62%
This comedy is about a bumbling searchlight unit during World War II. Ensemble acting creates a series of intertwining stories that involve the various soldiers assigned to this post. Lt. Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) is the cheerful, inept officer in charge, then there is the womanizer whose concept of birth control is limited, the lovesick soldier unhappy over a misunderstanding with his girlfriend, the Cockney cook, the father-figure, and several others. Their trials and tribulations provide the bulk of the comedy, such as it is. [1]