
Hugh Quarshie
Acting • Born 1954-12-22
Biography
Hugh Anthony Quarshie (born 22 December 1954) is a Ghanaian-born British actor of stage, television, and film. Some of his best-known roles include his appearances in the films Highlander (1986) and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and his long-running role as Ric Griffin in the BBC medical drama Holby City (2001–present).
Filmography
76 credits
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Movie • 1999
Captain Panaka

Nightbreed
Movie • 1990
Detective Joyce

Highlander
Movie • 1986
Sunda Kastagir

Skeletons of the Mary Rose
Movie • 2019
Narrator

The Railway Children Return
Movie • 2022
General Harrison

To Walk with Lions
Movie • 1999
Maxwell

The Church
Movie • 1989
Father Gus

The Son
Movie • 2022
Doctor Harris

Conspiracy of Silence
Movie • 2003
Fr. Joseph Ennis

Catherine Tate's Nan vs Holby City
Movie • 2013
Ric Griffin

Solomon & Sheba
Movie • 1995
Nikaule's Father

Book Club: The Next Chapter
Movie • 2023
Ousmane

Drums Along Balmoral Drive
Movie • 1986
Wallace

The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Movie • 1999
Neville Lawrence

It Was an Accident
Movie • 2000
George Hurlock

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Movie • 1993
Lieutenant Delaney

A Turtle's Guide to the Pacific
Movie • 2007
Narrator

Rapture
Movie • 2023

Loving Hazel
Movie • 1989
Mike

Ghosted
Movie • 2011

Wing Commander
Movie • 1999
Lt. Obutu

Retribution
Movie • 2017
DI Reed

Wide Games
Movie • 1983
Corporal Chalkie

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
Movie • 1985
Kenge Obe

The Knowledge
Movie • 1979
Campion

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie • 1981
Philostrate

Red Sparrow
Movie • 2018
Simon Benford

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Movie • 2018
Mustafa Kama

The PhanDom Menace
Movie • 2002
Self

RSC Live: Othello
Movie • 2015
Othello

Titus Andronicus
Movie • 1985
Aaron

The Return
Movie • 2024
Imphinomous

Julius Caesar
Movie • 1994
Cassius

The Mandy Who Knew Too Much
Movie
General Moore

Sharma and Beyond
Movie • 1984
Man on Stairs

Holby City
TV • 1999
Ric Griffin

The Bill
TV • 1984

BeastMaster
TV • 1999

Rumpole of the Bailey
TV • 1975
Jonathan Mazenze

Wolcott
TV • 1981
Dennis St George

Virtual Murder
TV • 1992

Red Dwarf
TV • 1988
Computer (voice)

Behaving Badly
TV • 1989

A Gentleman's Club
TV • 1988

Jason and the Argonauts
TV • 2000
Chiron

Medics
TV • 1990

The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart
TV • 2010
Narrator

Stephen
TV • 2021
Neville Lawrence

Natural World
TV • 1983
Narrator

Maryland
TV • 2023
Pete

Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2004
Self

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
TV • 2018
Ekon Ameh

Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Solomon

Vera
TV • 2011
Dr. Leon Parmer

Press Gang
TV • 1989
Inspector Hibbert

Ape-Man
TV • 2000
Narrator

A Respectable Trade
TV • 1998
Caesar Peters

She's Out
TV • 1995
DCI Ron Craigh

Casualty
TV • 1986
Gordon Hutchens

Casualty
TV • 1986
Ric Griffin

Small Island
TV • 2009
Narrator

Arabian Nights
TV • 2000
Mustappa

White Heat
TV • 2012
Victor (present day)

Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Jomo Mashaba

Riches
TV • 2022
Stephen Richards

Absentia
TV • 2017
Semo Oduwale

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV • 1992
Cassius (voice)

Breeders
TV • 2020
Alex

McDonald & Dodds
TV • 2020
Clarence Adderly

The Marlow Murder Club
TV • 2024
Professor Gifford

Surgical Spirit
TV • 1989
Fergus Debonaire

Buccaneer
TV • 1980
Major Ndobi

The Chief
TV • 1990
Vincent Pierce

The Afternoon Play
TV • 2003
Adam Clay

Remembers…
TV • 2022
Self

The Capture
TV • 2019
Commissioner Cameron Yates