Background
Josephine Griffin was the only daughter of Ronald Griffin (son of Sir Lepel Griffin, a British colonial administrator in India).
Josephine Griffin was the only daughter of Ronald Griffin (son of Sir Lepel Griffin, a British colonial administrator in India).
In 1951-1952 she acted in Peter Ustinov"s play The Moment of Truth at the Adelphi Theatre in London, with Eric Portman and Cyril Luckham also in the cast. She then appeared in a number of films in the 1950s. These included: The House of the Arrow (1953), The Weak and the Wicked (1954), The Purple Plain (1954, as Gregory Peck"s wife), The Crowded Day (1954), an episode of the television series Fabian of the Yard (1955), Room in the House (1955), The Extra Day (1956) and On Such a Night (short.
1956).
She had perhaps her best roles in two other 1956 films. As Pam in The Manitoba Who Never Was, and as Carol Burton in The Spanish Gardener. She made one more film, Portrait of Alison (1958.
Released in the United States of America as Postmark for Danger), then retired from the screen.
Her husband Patrick Hugh Filmer-Sankey was a film producer. He was the grandson of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, and Constance Cornwallis-West.
Josephine Griffin"s other connection to Winston Churchill was that he was an unseen character in The Manitoba Who Never Was. His voice was supplied by Peter Sellers.
With Denny, she also edited a new version of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (1973).
Her name has been attached to a pearl bracelet sold commercially.