By Vlad Zakh · March 6, 2026
Hugh Griffith brought a booming, larger-than-life Welsh presence to British and Hollywood film and delivered award-winning performances in some of the era’s biggest productions. Ben-Hur won him recognition, Tom Jones follows a foundling’s comic misadventures, Oliver! throws an orphan among Victorian pickpockets, How to Steal a Million recruits a burglar to steal a forged sculpture, and Start the Revolution Without Me collides mismatched twins in the French Revolution. The Titfield Thunderbolt rounds out the list.
01 Hugh Griffith appears in this comedy about two sets of mismatched twins accidentally switched at birth who collide amid the chaos of the French Revolution.
Directed by Bud Yorkin · 1h 30m
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02 An orphan falls in with a gang of pickpockets on the streets of Dickensian London.
Directed by Carol Reed · 2h 33m · Rated G
Won 5 Oscars13 wins & 25 nominations
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03 A woman recruits a burglar to steal her own father's forged sculpture before it's exposed as fake.
Directed by William Wyler · 2h 03m · Rated NR
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04 A charming, illegitimate young man's roguish adventures and romantic entanglements scandalise 18th-century England.
Directed by Tony Richardson · 2h 08m · Rated NR
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05 A betrayed Jewish prince seeks revenge on his childhood friend, now a powerful Roman official.
Directed by William Wyler · 3h 32m · Rated G
Won 11 Oscars29 wins & 13 nominations
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06 Hugh Griffith is in this Ealing comedy about a small village that fights to save its beloved local railway line from permanent closure.
Directed by Charles Crichton · 1h 24m
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