Griff Rhys Jones
Acting
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.
As actor 112
Midsomer Murders
1997
Casualty
1986
Have I Got News for You
1990
QI
2003
Wogan
1982
The One Show
2006
Omnibus
1967
8 Out of 10 Cats
2005
Question Time
1979
Parkinson
1998
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Would I Lie to You?
2007
The BAFTA Awards
1949
An Audience with...
1978
HARDtalk
1997
Jonathan Creek
1997
TFI Friday
1996
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Timeshift
2002
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1988
The Young Ones
1982
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Shooting Stars
1993
The Terry and Gaby Show
2003
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
Screen One
1989
The Play on One
1988
It’ll be Alright on the Night
1977
Alas Smith and Jones
1984
Not the Nine O'Clock News
1979
Perspectives
2011
Between the Covers
2020
Weekend Playhouse
1984
Comic Relief
1988
Insert Name Here
2016
Three Men in a Boat
2006
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones
2015
Porterhouse Blue
1987
Final Chance to Save
2005
Restoration
2003
Mine All Mine
2004
Sardines
1995
Demob
1993
Taliesin Jones
2002
Live Aid
1985
In Confidence
2010
Funnybones
1992
Finland For Adults
1987
The World According to Smith & Jones
1987
If I Ruled the World
1998
Griff's Great Australian Rail Trip
2020
The Quizeum
2015
Tales from the Poop Deck
1992
Rita Rudner
1990
The Smith & Jones Sketchbook
2006
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
2025
Murder on the Blackpool Express
2017
Wilt
1989
Under Milk Wood
2014
Griff's Great Kiwi Road Trip
2019
Jake's Journey
1988
Morons from Outer Space
1985
Smith And Jones In Small Doses
1989
Greatest Cities of the World with Griff Rhys Jones
2008
Gangsta Granny Strikes Again
2022
Mountain
2007
Tales of Television Centre
2012
Ex
1991
Riot at the Rite
2005
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
1998
Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie
2013
Up 'n' Under
1998
Britain's Lost Routes with Griff Rhys Jones
2012
The Funny Side of Christmas
1982
Losing It: Griff Rhys Jones On Anger
2008
As You Like It
1992
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982
Staggered
1994
Puckoon
2002
A Short History of Everything Else
2012
Griff's Canadian Adventure
2022
Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army
2013
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
2000
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
Wogan on Wodehouse
2011
Griff's Great American South
2025
Alas Sage & Onion
1988
Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas
2007
Love Somehow
2016
Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones
2009
Smith and Jones: The Home-Made Xmas Video
1987
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
A Great Welsh Adventure with Griff Rhys Jones
2014
The Best of Not the Nine O'Clock News Volume One
2003
Mel Smith: I've Done Some Things
2013
Smith & Jones - One Night Stand
1994
Future TX
2022
Going to Work Naked
2005
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
2009
Three Men In Another Boat
2008
The Best of Not the Nine O'Clock News Volume Two
2004
A View of Harry Clark
1989
Character Building
1995
The Secret Life of Arthur Ransome
2005
Three Men in a Boat
2006
GRIFF’S SOUTHERN CHARM
Griff's Great New Zealand Adventure
2021
Three Men in More Than One Boat
2009
Cambridge University 1974 Footlights Revue
1974
On the crew 13
Alas Smith and Jones
1984
Not the Nine O'Clock News
1979
The World According to Smith & Jones
1987
The Smith & Jones Sketchbook
2006
Morons from Outer Space
1985
Greatest Cities of the World with Griff Rhys Jones
2008
A Poet in New York
2014
Mountain
2007
The Funny Side of Christmas
1982
A Short History of Everything Else
2012
National Treasures of Wales
2014
The Secret Life of Arthur Ransome
2005
Cambridge University 1974 Footlights Revue
1974