Kenneth Griffith (October 12, 1921 – June 25, 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary film-maker. October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Welsh are an ethnic group associated with Wales and the Welsh language, which is a Celtic language. ...

Born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, he served in the RAF during World War II. Harbour of Tenby in Nov, 2001 Tenby (Welsh: Dinbych-y-Pysgod, fortlet of the fishes) is a town in Pembrokeshire, west Wales, lying on Carmarthen Bay. ... RAF is an three letter acronym for: Royal Air Force -- the Air Force of the United Kingdom (see also Air Ministry) Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) -- a German terror organisation Rigas Autobusu Fabrika -- a factory making buses in Riga, Latvia Rapid Action Force in India Računarski Fakultet RAF... Combatants Allies: Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France/Free France, United States, Canada, China, India, Australia, Poland, New Zealand, South Africa, Greece, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Hungary, Burma, Slovakia Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8...

Acting Career

Griffith gained stage experience with the Old Vic and in repertory. In 1941, he made his debut in the first of more than 80 films in which he principally played character roles. The exterior of the Old Vic. ...

He can be spotted in many British films between the 1940s and 1980s, notably as the wireless operator Jack Phillips on board the Titanic in A Night to Remember, and especially the comedies of the Boulting brothers, including Private's Progress (1956) and I'm All Right Jack (1959). He also portrayed Whitey, the homosexual medic in The Wild Geese (1978). See also A Night to Remember (album) for the Cyndi Lauper album by this name. ... John and Roy Boulting were English film-makers, who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. ... Privates Progress is a British comedy film of 1956, based on the novel by Alan Hackney. ... Im All Right Jack is a British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting. ... The Wild Geese is a 1978 film about a group of mercenaries in Africa. ...

His work on sixties TV programme The Prisoner is much appreciated by its fans, because of his appearances in the episodes The Girl Who Was Death and Fall Out. He has appeared in episodes of Minder. More recent cinemagoers may have seen him as a "mad old man" in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), as Reverend Jones in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995), and as the "Minister" in Very Annie Mary (2001). The Prisoner was a 1967 UK fantasy-drama television series, starring Patrick McGoohan. ... The Girl Who Was Death is a television episode of the British science-fiction-allegorical series, The Prisoner. ... Fall Out is the title of the controversial seventeenth and final episode of the British science-fiction-allegorical series, The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan as Number Six. ... Minder (book cover) Minder on the cover of TV Times magazine. ... Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. ... The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is a 1995 movie written by Ivor Monger, directed by Christopher Monger and starring Hugh Grant (Reginald Anson), Ian McNeice (George Garrad), Tara Fitzgerald (Betty), Colm Meaney (Morgan the Goat) and Kenneth Griffith (Reverend Robert Jones). The movie...

Documentary maker

In middle age, Griffith became a supporter of the IRA. In 1973 Griffith made a documentary film about the life and death of Irish military/political leader, Michael Collins entitled Hang up your Brightest Colours (which is a line taken from a letter from George Bernard Shaw to one of Collins' sisters after his death) for ATV. The acronym IRA may refer to: Irish Republican Army See also List of IRAs Irish Republican Army, the self-proclaimed Army of the Irish Republic that fought the Irish War of Independence against British rule, 1916 - 1921 Irish Republican Army (1922-1969): Originally the Anti-Treaty or Republican side in... Michael John Collins (Irish name Mícheál Eoin Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, served as Minister for Finance in the Irish Republic, as Director of Intelligence for the IRA, as a member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty... (George) Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. ... The ATV colour logo, used from the start of the colour standard in 1969 until the companys demise in 1981. ...

He also contributed to a documentary interviewing then-surviving (now all deceased) IRA guerrillas from the 1920s: Maire Comerford, Joseph Sweeney, Sean Kavanagh, John O'Sullivan, Brigid Thornton, Sean Harling, Martin Walton, David Nelligan (or Neligan) and Tom Barry, titled Curious Journey. Thomas (Tom) Barry (July 1, 1897-July 2, 1980) was an Irish guerrilla leader and revolutionary. ...

Griffith's very sympathetic portrayal caused some concern given the state of tension in Northern Ireland and ATV boss Sir Lew Grade decided to withdraw the film, which was not released publicly until 1994. Although the info was removed from IMDb, the story on Griffith and his Irish republican sympathies was published in the 15 November, 1997 edition of the Irish Post (est. 1970) as Beating the censor, written by Martin Doyle. Dieu et mon droit (motto) (French for God and my right)2 Northern Irelands location within the UK Official Languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Hain MP Area  - Total Ranked 4th UK 13,843... Lew Grade, Baron Grade (birth name Louis Winogradsky) (December 25, 1906 - December 13, 1998) was an influential showbusiness impresario and television company executive in the United Kingdom. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) [1] is an online database of information about actors, movies, television shows, television stars and video games. ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ...

Griffith made some documentaries which are said to have shown an anti-imperialist stance. He was a supporter of the Boers in South Africa. Imperialism is a policy of extending control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires. ... Afrikaners are white South Africans of predominantly Calvinist Dutch, German, French Huguenot, Friesian and Walloon descent who speak Afrikaans. ...

He made a BBC2 TV documentary on the teenage runner Zola Budd which purported to reveal injustices done to her by left-wing demonstrators and organisations during a tour of England in the late 1980s. BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and... Zola Budd running a cross-country race barefoot Zola Pieterse, still better known by her maiden name of Zola Budd (born May 26, 1966 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State in South Africa), is a former Olympic track and field competitor who, within a period of less than three years, twice...

Personal life

Thrice-married Protestant Griffith named his home in Islington, London, "Michael Collins House". He "proudly" displayed on his wall a death threat from the UVF (Northern Irish loyalists) "flanked on one side by a friendlier letter from Gerry Adams". He also had a bust of Clive of India on display in the living room. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Islington is an inner-city district in north London. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ... The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary group. ... Gerry Adams Gerry Adams MP, MLA, (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish Republican politician and abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for West Belfast. ... Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey (September 29, 1725 - November 22, 1774) was the statesman and general who established the empire of British India. ...

Kenneth was always curious about the Christian faith and greatly impressed by Christ. His sorties into religion brought him to visit C of E, St Helens, Bishopsgate as well as Plymouth Brethren in Plumstead Common - where he was a regular attendee. At his first appearance at the Brethren Meeting Room he announced he was an agnostic, to which an elder replied with the question 'why do you like to be known by a Greek word? Would you like to know the Latin translation?', 'Yes of course!', 'it is ignoramus!' Ken then accepted a luncheon invitation which became a regular event after meetings. He never allowed the elder to forget his rudeness and signed the visitors book 'ignoramus'. Kenneth had plenty to say on matters religious and wrote an article in The Oldie on the Joy of Sects.

Griffith died peacefully at his home on June 25, 2006. June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• 'The Prisoner' article
• BBC article
• BBC obituary

• Kenneth Griffith at the Internet Movie Database