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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 16, 1953
Place of Birth
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Also Known As
- Griff Rhys-Jones
- Griffith Rhys Jones
Griff Rhys Jones
0.5 Popularity
Biography
Griff Rhys Jones is a Welsh actor and writer. He was born in 1953 in Cardiff gut the family later moved to Essex, England. Educated at Brentwood School in Essex, he won an exhibition to Emmanuel College, Cambridge to read History, transferring later to English. He joined the Footlights Club, becoming its vice president in 1976.
Known For
8.3
Self
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
2025
5.1
Mr Parker
Gangsta Granny Strikes Again
2022
7.0
Foley
Future TX
2022
8.5
Host
Griff’s Canadian Adventure
2022
0.0
Griff's Great New Zealand Adventure
2021
5.5
Self
Between the Covers
2020
0.0
Self - Presenter
Griff's Great Australian Rail Trip
2020
0.0
Self
Griff's Great Kiwi Road Trip
2019
7.5
Self - Guest
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
5.8
David Van Der Clane
Murder on the Blackpool Express
2017
Credits
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
as Self
2025
8.3
Gangsta Granny Strikes Again
as Mr Parker
2022
5.1
Future TX
as Foley
2022
7.0
Griff’s Canadian Adventure
as Host
2022
8.5
Griff's Great New Zealand Adventure
2021
0.0
Between the Covers
as Self
2020
5.5
Griff's Great Australian Rail Trip
as Self - Presenter
2020
0.0
Griff's Great Kiwi Road Trip
as Self
2019
0.0
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest
2018
7.5
Murder on the Blackpool Express
as David Van Der Clane
2017
5.8
Love Somehow
as Dylan Thomas
2016
0.0
Insert Name Here
as Self - Panelist
2016
6.7
Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones
as Himself - Presenter
2015
6.0
The Quizeum
as Himself - Presenter
2015
0.0
Under Milk Wood
as Voice
2014
6.0
A Great Welsh Adventure with Griff Rhys Jones
as Himself
2014
0.0
Mel Smith: I've Done Some Things
as Self
2013
4.0
Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army
as Himself
2013
0.0
Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie
as Self (archive footage)
2013
5.5
🎬
A Short History of Everything Else
2012
0.0
Britain's Lost Routes with Griff Rhys Jones
as Presenter
2012
6.0
Tales of Television Centre
as Self
2012
8.0
Wogan on Wodehouse
as Self
2011
0.0
Perspectives
2011
0.0
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
as Self
2009
6.0
Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones
as Self - Presenter
2009
0.0
🎬
Three Men in More Than One Boat
as Himself
2009
0.0
Greatest Cities of the World with Griff Rhys Jones
2008
0.0
Losing It: Griff Rhys Jones On Anger
as Himself - Presenter
2008
0.0
🎬
Three Men In Another Boat
as Himself
2008
4.0
Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas
as Himself - Presenter
2007
6.0
Mountain
2007
0.0
Would I Lie to You?
as Self
2007
7.7
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.5
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.5
The One Show
as Self - Interviewed Guest
2006
4.5
🎬
The Smith & Jones Sketchbook
2006
0.0
The Best of Not The Nine O'Clock News Volume One
2006
6.5
Three Men in a Boat
as Self
2006
5.0
🎬
Three Men in a Boat
as Himself
2006
5.3
Riot at the Rite
as Astruc
2005
9.0
The Secret Life of Arthur Ransome
as Self / Presenter
2005
0.0
Final Chance to Save
as Himself
2005
0.0
8 Out of 10 Cats
as Self
2005
7.1
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Dr David Quimper
2004
7.7
Mine All Mine
2004
6.0
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
6.7
🎬
Restoration
2003
0.0
🎬
The Terry and Gaby Show
2003
5.0
Timeshift
as Self - Not the Nine O'Clock News, 1980 (archive footage)
2002
7.0
🎬
Taliesin Jones
as Caesar
2002
6.7
Puckoon
as Col. Stokes
2002
6.2
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
2001
5.8
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
as Emperor
2000
9.0
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
as Baron Wasteland
1998
7.0
🎬
If I Ruled the World
as Himself
1998
7.0
Up 'n' Under
as Ray Mason, Radio York commentator
1998
5.1
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
Jonathan Creek
as Jeremy Sangster
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Ambrose Deddington
1997
7.5
The Adventures of Pinocchio
as Tino
1996
5.2
Smith & Jones - One Night Stand
1994
8.0
Staggered
as Graham
1994
5.3
Shooting Stars
as Self
1993
7.6
Demob
as Ian Deasey
1993
0.0
As You Like It
as Touchstone
1992
5.5
Funnybones
1992
6.3
🎬
Funny Bones
as (voice)
1992
0.0
Amnesty International's Big 30
as Self
1991
4.0
Ex
as Patrick
1991
0.0
Have I Got News for You
as Himself
1990
7.1
Have I Got News for You
as Self
1990
7.1
Rita Rudner
1990
0.0
Wilt
as Henry Wilt
1989
6.2
A View of Harry Clark
as Harry Clark
1989
0.0
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
as Himself
1988
7.6
🎬
Comic Relief
as Self - Presenter
1988
5.7
Jake's Journey
as Innkeeper
1988
7.0
Smith and Jones: The Home-Made Xmas Video
as Dad
1987
6.5
Porterhouse Blue
as Cornelius Carrington
1987
7.1
🎬
The World According To Smith And Jones
1987
0.0
🎬
Finland For Adults
as Reporter
1987
0.0
Casualty
as Paul Fuller
1986
6.1
Comedians Do It On Stage
as Self
1986
0.0
Live Aid
as Self
1985
7.9
Morons from Outer Space
as Graham Sweetley
1985
4.7
Alas Smith and Jones
1984
7.2
The Young Ones
as Bamber 'Bambi' Gascoigne
1982
7.9
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
as Self - Various Roles
1982
6.0
Not the Nine O'Clock News
1979
7.0
Question Time
as Self - Panellist
1979
5.1
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
5.3
It'll be Alright on the Night
1977
7.0
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self
1976
5.0
The BAFTA Awards
as Host
1949
10.0
The Best of Not The Nine O'Clock News Volume Two
N/A
0.0
🎬
GRIFF’S SOUTHERN CHARM
as Griff
N/A
0.0