Kenneth Reginald Griffith (12 October 1921 – 25 June 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.

Biography

Griffith, a Protestant, named his home (No. 110 Englefield Road, Islington, London), "Michael Collins' House". Against advice, he defiantly kept himself listed in the telephone directory and his phone number was also to be found in [Who's Who]]. All his life, Griffith relished an argument. He "proudly" displayed, on his wall, death threats from the Ulster Volunteer Force (Northern Irish loyalists) "flanked on one side by a friendlier letter from Gerry Adams". A year or two before Griffith's death, he attended a meeting where Gerry Adams praised and thanked him for his documentaries, as they had contributed to the peace process. He also cherished Mrs Thatcher's opinion of him as a "dangerous Marxist", although Griffith was not an adherent of that ideology. However, he also had a huge plaster medallion of Clive of India fixed to his living room wall. Indeed, his entire house was crammed, like an overly stocked antique shop, with a collection of predominantly Boer War memorabilia, He also housed thousands of Boer War covers in his philatelic collection housed in filing cabinets on the top floor, all catalogued and researched personally and recorded in beautifully handwritten volumes.

Griffith was married three times and had five children: Joan Stock (David), Doria Noar (the actress and theatre historian Eva Griffith) and Carole Haggar (Polly, Huw and Jonathan).