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Griff Rhys Jones is a Actor, Writer and Executive producer British born on 16 november 1953
Griff Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953) is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor and television presenter. He starred in a number of television series with his comedy partner Mel Smith.
Rhys Jones came to national attention in the early 1980s for his work in the BBC television comedy sketch shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones alongside Mel Smith. With Smith, he founded television production company Talkback Productions, now part of RTL Group and later in 2005, he started the production company Modern Television.
He went on to develop a career as a television presenter and writer, as well as continuing with acting work. He currently presents the television bloopers show It'll Be Alright on the Night for ITV, replacing Denis Norden in 2008.
Rhys Jones has fronted a number of documentary series for both the BBC and ITV including Mountain in 2007, Greatest Cities of the World between 2008 and 2010 and A Great Welsh Adventure in 2014.
A former heavy drinker, Rhys Jones is a teetotaller: "I don't drink so going to a party can become very tedious. By about 11 o'clock, everybody goes to another planet and you're not there with them, so I tend to avoid that sort of thing." He started running as a leisure pursuit in his early forties. In 2008, he presented two programmes called Losing It which were shown on BBC Two, in which he discussed his own problems with anger management.
An active conservationist, Rhys Jones is the president of Civic Voice, the national organisation representing Britain's civic societies. In August 2014, Rhys Jones was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.
A resident of East Anglia, Rhys Jones was awarded an honorary degree by the University of East Anglia in 2002. He was also awarded honorary degrees by the University of Glamorgan, the University of Essex and an honorary D.Litt from Anglia Ruskin University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the Royal Society of Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of his alma mater, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 2009 he was honoured by his father's former university, the University of Wales College of Medicine (now part of Cardiff University).
In October 2014, he worked with The Fitzrovia Partnership bid in creating and promoting the Dylan Thomas Festival.
Family
Rhys Jones also returned to his mother's roots in the village of Ferndale, Wales for the purposes of an episode of the BBC One series Who Do You Think You Are?, which was broadcast 20 September 2007. In the episode, he detailed early memories and stories of his grandparents' fruit and vegetable shop on the high street and his mother's childhood concert performances at Trerhondda Chapel.
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Rhys Jones came to national attention in the early 1980s for his work in the BBC television comedy sketch shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones alongside Mel Smith. With Smith, he founded television production company Talkback Productions, now part of RTL Group and later in 2005, he started the production company Modern Television.
He went on to develop a career as a television presenter and writer, as well as continuing with acting work. He currently presents the television bloopers show It'll Be Alright on the Night for ITV, replacing Denis Norden in 2008.
Rhys Jones has fronted a number of documentary series for both the BBC and ITV including Mountain in 2007, Greatest Cities of the World between 2008 and 2010 and A Great Welsh Adventure in 2014.
Biography
Rhys Jones met his wife, Jo, a graphic designer, while working at the BBC. He has described their first meeting by saying "The day we met, I was semi-naked and she was throwing water over me." The couple have two children, and live between homes in London (previously in Islington, now in a Grade I listed house in London's Fitzrovia in the West End) and Suffolk. The family had a chocolate-coloured Labrador called Cadbury. Rhys Jones formerly owned a 45-foot-long, 50-year-old blue wooden sailing yacht named Undina, which was used in Three Men in Another Boat. He currently owns a 57-foot-long yacht Argyll, launched in 1948. He and Jo are keen gardeners, and he discussed their extensive garden in an October 2015 episode of BBC Gardeners' World, part of which was filmed there.A former heavy drinker, Rhys Jones is a teetotaller: "I don't drink so going to a party can become very tedious. By about 11 o'clock, everybody goes to another planet and you're not there with them, so I tend to avoid that sort of thing." He started running as a leisure pursuit in his early forties. In 2008, he presented two programmes called Losing It which were shown on BBC Two, in which he discussed his own problems with anger management.
An active conservationist, Rhys Jones is the president of Civic Voice, the national organisation representing Britain's civic societies. In August 2014, Rhys Jones was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.
A resident of East Anglia, Rhys Jones was awarded an honorary degree by the University of East Anglia in 2002. He was also awarded honorary degrees by the University of Glamorgan, the University of Essex and an honorary D.Litt from Anglia Ruskin University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the Royal Society of Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of his alma mater, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 2009 he was honoured by his father's former university, the University of Wales College of Medicine (now part of Cardiff University).
In October 2014, he worked with The Fitzrovia Partnership bid in creating and promoting the Dylan Thomas Festival.
Family
Rhys Jones also returned to his mother's roots in the village of Ferndale, Wales for the purposes of an episode of the BBC One series Who Do You Think You Are?, which was broadcast 20 September 2007. In the episode, he detailed early memories and stories of his grandparents' fruit and vegetable shop on the high street and his mother's childhood concert performances at Trerhondda Chapel.
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, 1h37Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Elton John, Jamie Theakston, Jonathan Ross, Griff Rhys Jones
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating75%
Ce documentaire retrace la vie haute en couleur du compositeur-interprète John Otway, à travers son optimisme sans faille et ses idées farfelues pour remonter sur scène.
Marple: 450 from Paddington (2003)
, 1h34Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Geraldine McEwan, Amanda Holden, John Hannah, Michael Landes, David Warner, Ciarán McMenamin
Rating73%
Mrs Elspeth McGillicuddy (Pam Ferris) prend le train de 16h50, à Londres, pour aller rendre visite à son amie Jane Marple (Geraldine McEwan). Installée dans son compartiment, alors qu'un autre train dépasse le sien, elle aperçoit furtivement par la fenêtre un homme étranglant sauvagement une femme dans le train voisin. Persuadée d'avoir été témoin d'un meurtre, elle se rend le lendemain à la police en compagnie de Miss Marple. Mais, aucun cadavre n'ayant été retrouvé dans le train ou aux abords de la voie ferrée, les autorités se montrent incrédules.
Up 'n' Under (1998)
, 1h39Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Rugby
Actors Gary Olsen, Griff Rhys Jones, Richard Ridings, Samantha Womack, Ralph Brown, Neil Morrissey
Roles Ray Mason, Radio York commentator
Rating56%
Up 'n' Under follows the story of an inept pub team from the 'Wheatsheaf Arms' in a rugby league sevens competition in Kingston upon Hull in England. Ex-pro Arthur's only passions in life are his wife and rugby league. When he hears about the 'Cobblers Arms' pub team and their corrupt manager, Arthur bets his life savings with Reg Welch that he can train any team to beat them.
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
, 1h36Directed by Steve Barron
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about children, Jeu, Films about magic and magicians, Prison films, Adaptations de Pinocchio, Films about toys, Children's films
Actors Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Martin Landau, Geneviève Bujold, Udo Kier, Bebe Neuwirth, Rob Schneider
Roles Tino
Rating52%
Mister Geppetto (Martin Landau) is an earnest woodcutter. Years ago, he carved the image of his heart into a pine tree for his secret love Leona (Geneviève Bujold), but lightning hit the pine tree. A few years later, Geppetto finds the pine tree again, but it splits in half and rolls down the bank, landing at his feet. Geppetto is intrigued upon his discovery and takes the log home. He discovers that the pine log refuses to be burned, and so he decides to carve the new puppet with it. His puppet named Pinocchio (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is soon mysteriously animated by a somewhat sentient force after his creation. Pinocchio approaches the woodcutter, initially alarming him. After a chase throughout the town, Geppetto finally finds Pinocchio and starts teaching him about how to behave. While wandering through town, Pinocchio becomes involved with two thieves Volpe and Felinet (Rob Schneider and Bebe Neuwirth) who attempt to flatter Pinocchio. Geppetto comes to the rescue by getting Pinocchio away from Volpe and Felinet and warns Pinocchio to mix with the right people. Volpe and Felinet go to the puppet master Lorenzini (Udo Kier) who owns a luxurious puppet theatre. Felinet tells him about Pinocchio, and Lorenzini appears interested, so he visits Geppetto that afternoon to barter for Pinocchio. However, although Pinocchio is somewhat taken to Lorenzini, Geppetto refuses to sell Pinocchio and instead sells some of his own marionettes.
Staggered (1994)
, 1h35Directed by Martin Clunes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Martin Clunes, Anna Chancellor, Michael Praed, Sylvia Syms, Virginia McKenna, David Kossoff
Roles Graham
Rating57%
After his Stag Night, Neil Price (Clunes) wakes up on a remote Scottish island, bereft of any clothes.
Wilt (1989)
, 1h32Directed by Mel Smith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Alison Steadman, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Diana Quick, Jeremy Clyde
Roles Henry Wilt
Rating61%
Henry Wilt is a community studies teacher at a poorly funded college where most of the pupils seem to be fairly apathetic to learning. Eva Wilt, his wife, is interested in the spiritual aspects of martial arts, Transcendental Meditation and similar pursuits. Eva's disdain for Henry's interest in reading adds to his general frustration at work, including being turned down for a promotion again, and leads him to occasionally fantasize about killing her. Her 'Yuppie' friends, Hugh Westroper and his beautiful, glamorous wife Sally, only exacerbate his alienation from her world by talking disparagingly about teaching as a profession and about his car.
Morons from Outer Space (1985)
, 1h31Directed by Mike Hodges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Jimmy Nail, James Sikking, Mark Lewis Jones, André Maranne
Roles Graham Sweetley
Rating45%
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by (Earth).
Scriptwriter
Morons from Outer Space (1985)
, 1h31Directed by Mike Hodges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Jimmy Nail, James Sikking, Mark Lewis Jones, André Maranne
Roles Writer
Rating45%
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by (Earth).
Producer
A Poet in New York (2014)
, 1h15Directed by Aisling Walsh
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Tom Hollander, Ewen Bremner, Essie Davis, Phoebe Fox, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Demetri Goritsas
Roles Executive Producer
Rating67%