Cast & creator
Griff Rhys Jones
Best known for Midsomer Murders, The One Show, The One Show
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.
Also known as: Griff Rhys-Jones, Griffith Rhys Jones
52
film credits
77
television credits
115
1949–2025 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (129)
Showing 129 of 129 credits
Midsomer Murders
Ambrose Deddington
1997
The One Show
Self
2006The One Show
Self - Interviewed Guest
2006
Casualty
Paul Fuller
1986
Have I Got News for You
Self
1990
QI
Self
2003
Wogan
Self
1982
Question Time
Self - Panellist
1979
8 Out of 10 Cats
Self
2005
Omnibus
1967
Would I Lie to You?
Self
2007
Agatha Christie's Marple
Dr David Quimper
2004
Parkinson
Self
1998
An Audience with...
Self
1978
Richard Osman's House of Games
Self - Panellist
2017
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
2018
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2004
TFI Friday
1996
Jonathan Creek
Jeremy Sangster
1997The Terry and Gaby Show
2003
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
2001
The Young Ones
Bamber 'Bambi' Gascoigne
1982
HARDtalk
1997
Screen One
Patrick
1989
Timeshift
Self - Not the Nine O'Clock News, 1980 (archive footage)
2002
Shooting Stars
Self
1993
The BAFTA Awards
Host
1949
The Play on One
Harry Clark
1988
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Himself
1988
A Great Welsh Adventure with Griff Rhys Jones
Himself
2014
Alas Smith and Jones
1984Alas Smith and Jones
Writer
1984Alas Smith and Jones
Creator
1984
Between the Covers
Self
2020
Griff's Canadian Adventure
Self - Host
2022
Perspectives
2011
Three Men in a Boat
Self
2006
Insert Name Here
Self - Panelist
2016
Not the Nine O'Clock News
1979Not the Nine O'Clock News
Writer
1979
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Self
1976
Porterhouse Blue
Cornelius Carrington
1987Comic Relief
Self - Presenter
1988
It’ll be Alright on the Night
Self - Presenter
1977It’ll be Alright on the Night
Self - Host
1977Weekend Playhouse
Michael
1984
Under Milk Wood
Voice
2014
Rita Rudner
1990
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Tino
1996
Mine All Mine
Max Vivaldi
2004
Mel Smith: I've Done Some Things
Self
2013
Live Aid
Self
1985The World According to Smith & Jones
Griff
1987The World According to Smith & Jones
Creator
1987
The Quizeum
Himself - Presenter
2015
Morons from Outer Space
Graham Sweetley
1985Morons from Outer Space
Writer
1985
Final Chance to Save
Himself
2005
Funnybones
1992In Confidence
2010If I Ruled the World
Himself
1998
Demob
Ian Deasey
1993
National Treasures of Wales
Presenter
2014
Amnesty International's Big 30
Self
1991
Murder on the Blackpool Express
David Van Der Clane
2017
A Poet in New York
Executive Producer
2014
Graham Linehan: Funny Business
2008Tales from the Poop Deck
Narrator (voice)
1992
As You Like It
Touchstone
1992
Tales of Television Centre
Self
2012Taliesin Jones
Caesar
2002A Short History of Everything Else
2012A Short History of Everything Else
Writer
2012
Jake's Journey
Innkeeper
1988The Smith & Jones Sketchbook
2006The Smith & Jones Sketchbook
Creator
2006
The Funny Side of Christmas
Trevor
1982The Funny Side of Christmas
Writer
1982
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
Emperor
2000
Losing It: Griff Rhys Jones On Anger
Himself - Presenter
2008
Riot at the Rite
Astruc
2005
Gangsta Granny Strikes Again
Mr Parker
2022Restoration
2003
Comedians Do It On Stage
Self
1986
Smith and Jones: The Home-Made Xmas Video
Dad
1987
Griff's Great Kiwi Road Trip
Self
2019
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Self
2025
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
Self
2009
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Self - Various Roles
1982
Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army
Himself
2013
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
Baron Wasteland
1998
The Best of Not the Nine O'Clock News Volume One
2003
Mountain
2007Mountain
Creator
2007
Griff's Great Australian Rail Trip
Self - Presenter
2020
A View of Harry Clark
Harry Clark
1989
Finland For Adults
Jeremy Jones
1987
Sardines
Davy Kotowski
1995
Greatest Cities of the World with Griff Rhys Jones
2008Greatest Cities of the World with Griff Rhys Jones
Writer
2008
Up 'n' Under
Ray Mason, Radio York commentator
1998
Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie
Self (archive footage)
2013
Wilt
Henry Wilt
1989
Staggered
Graham
1994Smith And Jones In Small Doses
1989
Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones
Himself - Presenter
2015
Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas
Himself - Presenter
2007Going to Work Naked
Self - Narrator (voice)
2005Three Men in a Boat
Himself
2006Three Men In Another Boat
Himself
2008
Griff's Great American South
Self
2025
Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones
Self - Presenter
2009
The Best of Not the Nine O'Clock News Volume Two
2004
Britain's Lost Routes with Griff Rhys Jones
Presenter
2012
The Secret Life of Arthur Ransome
Self / Presenter
2005The Secret Life of Arthur Ransome
Writer
2005
Smith & Jones - One Night Stand
1994
Love Somehow
Dylan Thomas
2016
Puckoon
Col. Stokes
2002
Griff's Great New Zealand Adventure
2021Cambridge University 1974 Footlights Revue
Various
1974Cambridge University 1974 Footlights Revue
Writer
1974Three Men in More Than One Boat
Himself
2009
Wogan on Wodehouse
Self
2011
Ex
Patrick
1991
Alas Sage & Onion
Various
1988Character Building
Narrator (voice)
1995
Future TX
Foley
2022GRIFF’S SOUTHERN CHARM
Griff