Fred Griffiths
Date of birth: 1912-03-08
Place of birth: Ludlow, Shropshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Frederick David Griffiths
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Along the Way
1972-01-01
A young singer from Wales becomes a pop star but soon tires of his success and returns home.
I'm All Right Jack
1959-08-18
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at
Jungle Street
1960-01-07
In this crime drama, a mugger accidently kills a man during a robbery and finds himself blackmailed
The Sleeping Tiger
1954-06-21
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes
There Was a Crooked Man
1960-08-31
When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
2025-04-06
Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.
Secret Venture
1955-11-10
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret docume
Doctor at Sea
1955-07-12
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 a
The Long Arm
1956-06-01
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with cl
Ring of Spies
1964-03-23
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy
You Pay Your Money
1957-02-13
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
Left Right and Centre
1959-06-23
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservativ
Barnacle Bill
1957-12-17
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as '
Pool of London
1951-02-20
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
A Cry from the Streets
1958-08-12
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a
Next to No Time
1958-08-04
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instru
Carry On Regardless
1961-04-04
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series o
Achilles Heel
1973-03-18
A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.
Carry On Nurse
1959-01-30
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. Th
The Window Cleaner
1968-01-01
A window cleaner suffers from a fear of heights, until he is seduced by one of his customers.
The Ladykillers
1955-12-08
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow
Slimderella
1978-01-01
Putting on a pantomime, the kids find they must share the Church hall with a rock group. They decide
Perfect Friday
1970-11-10
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he beco
A Box for Rob
2013-11-07
Rob Spencer's world begins to unravel when a murder takes place in his town, bringing back a flood o
Fires Were Started
1943-04-12
British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the live
Light Up the Sky!
1960-07-05
Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
Murder at the Gallop
1963-05-09
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby
No Trees in the Street
1959-03-03
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England
Passport to Pimlico
1949-10-26
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and d
Street of Shadows
1953-10-16
A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of in
Dad's Army
1971-03-12
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman
Lost
1956-01-31
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their
Double Confession
1950-04-30
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes i
The Huggetts Abroad
1949-03-21
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to S
Nine Men
1943-02-22
The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African c
The Cruel Sea
1953-02-24
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexp
The Final Test
1953-04-09
Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against A
The Big Job
1965-10-05
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught a
A Day to Remember
1953-11-10
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of th
The Over-Amorous Artist
1974-05-23
Sexploitation comedy about an aspiring artist. Alan and Sue switch roles: she goes out to work while
Steptoe & Son
1972-03-01
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the nei
Sailor Beware
1956-09-04
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Sh
Bang! You're Dead
1954-03-15
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the
Genevieve
1953-05-28
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the fir
No Sex Please - We're British
1973-07-25
A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with
Billion Dollar Brain
1967-11-16
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer
Turn the Key Softly
1953-04-29
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
Dunkirk
1958-03-20
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer i
Golden Arrow
1949-12-31
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and in
Doctor in Love
1960-07-12
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping
Stop Press Girl
1949-06-02
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she does
It Always Rains on Sunday
1947-11-28
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
The Battle of the Sexes
1960-02-25
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their exp
Meet Mr. Lucifer
1953-11-30
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
I Believe in You
1952-03-05
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950)
Carry On Loving
1970-09-20
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-
Wheel of Fate
1953-07-01
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while T
The Horse's Mouth
1958-11-11
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his n
Over the Odds
1961-11-01
A bookmaker struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law.
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956-05-18
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads hi
Carrington V.C.
1954-12-09
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces
John and Julie
1955-07-26
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
Up in the World
1956-12-06
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted
Just My Luck
1957-11-14
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dre
One Good Turn
1955-01-04
Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the or
The Square Peg
1958-12-04
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they c
On the Beat
1962-12-11
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst oth
A Stitch in Time
1963-12-01
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after c
The Early Bird
1965-11-30
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a
Up the Chastity Belt
1972-01-14
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lur
The Captain's Table
1959-01-06
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although
That's Carry On!
1977-11-10
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Will
Doctor in the House
1954-03-23
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 an
What's a Carry On?
1998-12-29
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips a
To Sir, with Love
1967-06-14
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his un
No Love for Johnnie
1961-02-14
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his li