Biography

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

Morons from Outer Space

Graham Sweetley

Tales of Television Centre

Self

Cambridge University 1974 Footlights Revue

Various

As You Like It

Touchstone

Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime

Emperor

Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas

Himself - Presenter

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Tino

The Secret Life of Arthur Ransome

Self / Presenter