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Fred Griffiths was born on March 8, 1912 in Ludlow, Shropshire, England as Frederick David Griffiths. He was an actor, known for To Sir, with Love (1967), Steptoe and Son(1972) and The Cruel Sea (1953). He was married to Emily Sadler. He died on August 27, 1994 in London, England.
He was a fireman based in Chelsea during the war and broke into acting by accident. He played a taxi driver in no less than 20 films and appeared in over 100 in total. He died a widower and left one son. Often played taxi drivers and was indeed a qualified London Taxi Driver, who kept his badge and worked as a taxi driver between filming jobs. He appeared in a wartime documentary film, and someone saw his character appeal and started a new career. Appeared in a television commercial on top of Saint Paul's Cathederal in 1973 with Chris Sullivan.
Most Popular Fred Griffiths Trailers
Total trailers found: 76
15 March 1954
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist.
01 March 1972
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood.
10 November 1955
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
10 November 1953
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
09 April 1953
Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia.
05 July 1960
Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
07 November 2013
Rob Spencer's world begins to unravel when a murder takes place in his town, bringing back a flood of disturbing childhood memories.
30 November 1965
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation.
09 May 1963
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby.
14 January 1972
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour.
21 March 1949
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job.
01 January 1978
Putting on a pantomime, the kids find they must share the Church hall with a rock group. They decide to present a rock panto.
11 December 1962
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others).
30 January 1959
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her.
31 January 1956
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London.
03 March 1959
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression.
29 April 1953
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
02 June 1949
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
04 January 1955
Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for.
08 December 1955
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
14 June 1967
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
06 January 1959
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
12 March 1971
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series.
04 December 1958
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military.
13 February 1957
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
01 June 1956
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London.
10 November 1970
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan.
23 March 1964
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them.
12 July 1960
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit.
05 March 1952
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) .
16 November 1967
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
22 February 1943
The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign.
28 May 1953
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
30 November 1953
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
01 July 1953
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder.
20 February 1951
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
04 September 1956
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley.
24 February 1953
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training.
12 August 1958
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose contract with the local care home introduces him to the children and Ann.
31 December 1949
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
26 October 1949
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory.
14 November 1957
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop.
01 November 1961
A bookmaker struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law.
20 March 1958
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed.
01 January 1972
A young singer from Wales becomes a pop star but soon tires of his success and returns home.
12 July 1955
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970.
14 February 1961
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him.
26 July 1955
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
25 February 1960
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh.
18 May 1956
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child.
28 November 1947
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
29 December 1998
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the cast.
04 April 1961
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
18 August 1959
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
21 June 1954
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
11 November 1958
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor.
20 September 1970
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green.
05 October 1965
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact.
06 December 1956
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town.
25 July 1973
A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with the address of the local Barclays Bank.
