Talk:Derek Griffiths

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I don't have a solid source for this, so can't add it to the article, but I'm almost certain that Griffiths' character in Watership Down was "Chervil" rather than "Sherbil", whatever IMDB may have to say on the matter. The rabbit in the book is called Chervil, and that name fits with Richard Adams' usual convention of naming rabbits after plants, whereas "Sherbil" is a meaningless word in such a context. Loganberry (Talk) 22:54, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is this guy British? The artilcle doesn't say. WikiParker 09:13, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Black[edit]

It really shouldn't matter, or be considered notable, but equally I'm sure it does matter and is notable, but he's a black British actor, and moreover one of relatively few black actors in racially-neutral roles on television back in the seventies when he presented Play School. At present the article only allows an inference of this to be made, from his appearance in The Black Mikado. Is there some way of making this clearer, without making an issue of it? Ghughesarch (talk) 23:27, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually he occassionally made reference to being black. One famous one (which probably couldn't be put out now, although it is hilarious) was in The Adventure Game (which BTW isn't in the list of programs he was in. Also wasn't he in Chockablock??) as one of the team who rescued Lesley Judd from a cell on the Planet Arg (it was later revealed that she was actually a traitor.) Lesley Judd said when Derek Griffiths opened the door "My knight in Shining Armour" to which Derek Griffiths replies "And a Black Knight at that". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.126.149 (talk) 22:45, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Italian advertising Oscar[edit]

"In the past he has won the Italian advertising Oscar"

What is that, then? Marnanel (talk) 11:07, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Place of birth?[edit]

IMDb has him down as born in Woking (as does the article - but which source came first?). The normally reliable British Film Institute screenonline website http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1141046/ gives "born in Soho and raised in Tufnell Park". I'm not inclined to change it since both sources seem reliable but both can't be correct.Ghughesarch (talk) 12:01, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

La Fleche[edit]

I read this: "Harpagon, The miser by Moliere. Directed by Helena Kaut-Howson at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (2009)." I'm sure I saw Derek Griffiths play thw part of La Fleche (very much for laughs) in The Misere at Aberystwth in the early 80s. Stub Mandrel (talk) 19:20, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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