Griff Rhys Jones

ActingBorn 1953-11-16 (72)Cardiff, Wales, UK

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

10.0

Filmography

88 credits

6.5

Griff's Great American South

2025

8.3

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future

2025

5.1

Gangsta Granny Strikes Again

2022

7.0

Future TX

2022

Griff Rhys Jones

Known For

The BAFTA Awards

Riot at the Rite

Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime

Griff’s Canadian Adventure

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future

Tales of Television Centre

Smith & Jones - One Night Stand

QI

Live Aid

The Young Ones

Filmography

Griff's Great American South

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future

Gangsta Granny Strikes Again

Future TX

Griff’s Canadian Adventure

Griff's Great New Zealand Adventure

Between the Covers

Griff's Great Australian Rail Trip

Griff's Great Kiwi Road Trip

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

Murder on the Blackpool Express

Richard Osman's House of Games

Love Somehow

Insert Name Here

Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones

The Quizeum

National Treasures of Wales

Under Milk Wood

A Poet in New York

A Great Welsh Adventure with Griff Rhys Jones

Mel Smith: I've Done Some Things

Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army

Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie

Britain's Lost Routes with Griff Rhys Jones

Tales of Television Centre

Wogan on Wodehouse

Perspectives

Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News

Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones

Greatest Cities of the World with Griff Rhys Jones

Losing It: Griff Rhys Jones On Anger

Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas

Mountain

Would I Lie to You?

The One Show

The Best of Not The Nine O'Clock News Volume One

Three Men in a Boat

Riot at the Rite

The Secret Life of Arthur Ransome

Final Chance to Save

8 Out of 10 Cats

Agatha Christie's Marple

Mine All Mine

Who Do You Think You Are?

QI

Timeshift

Puckoon

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime

Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime

Up 'n' Under

Parkinson

Jonathan Creek

Midsomer Murders

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Sardines

Smith & Jones - One Night Stand

Staggered

Shooting Stars

Demob

As You Like It

Funnybones

Amnesty International's Big 30

Ex

Have I Got News for You

Rita Rudner

Wilt