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Kenneth Griffith (October 12, 1921 – June 25, 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary film-maker.
<p>Born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, he served in the Royal Air Force during World War II.
<p>Griffith gained stage experience with the Old Vic and in repertory. In 1941, he made his debut in the first of more than 80 films in which he principally played character roles.
<p>He can be spotted in many British films between the 1940s and 1980s, notably as the wireless operator Jack Phillips on board the Titanic in A Night to Remember, in the crime caper Track the Man Down, and especially in the comedies of the Boulting brothers, including Private's Progress (1956) and I'm All Right Jack (1959). He also portrayed the homosexual medic Witty in The Wild Geese (1978).
<p>His work on sixties TV programme The Prisoner is much appreciated by its fans, because of his appearances in the episodes The Girl Who Was Death and Fall Out. He has appeared in episodes of Minder. More recent cinemagoers may...
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