Griffith Jones (born Harold Jones, 1909-2007) was a distinguished stage, film and television actor whose career spanned more than six decades. He was born in Notting Hill, London, the son of William Thomas Jones, a Welsh-speaking former lead miner and dairy owner from Wales ' the connection this article records is through his father's Welsh roots, rather than Griffith's own birthplace, which was London.
He trained at RADA, winning the RADA Gold Medal in 1932, and went on to a long stage career including more than twenty years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, taking on roles such as Antigonus in 'The Winter's Tale' and Gower in 'Pericles'. On screen he was a leading man in films including 'Miranda' (1948) and 'Once Upon a Dream' (1949), and later appeared on television in productions such as 'Upstairs, Downstairs'.