
Hugh Quarshie
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).
Movie Appearances

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as Captain Panaka
1999

Nightbreed
as Detective Joyce
1990

Highlander
as Sunda Kastagir
1986

Skeletons of the Mary Rose
as Narrator
2019

The Railway Children Return
as General Harrison
2022

To Walk with Lions
as Maxwell
1999

The Church
as Father Gus
1989

The Son
as Doctor Harris
2022

Conspiracy of Silence
as Fr. Joseph Ennis
2003

Catherine Tate's Nan vs Holby City
as Ric Griffin
2013

Solomon & Sheba
as Nikaule's Father
1995

Book Club: The Next Chapter
as Ousmane
2023

Drums Along Balmoral Drive
as Wallace
1986

The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
as Neville Lawrence
1999

It Was an Accident
as George Hurlock
2000

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
as Lieutenant Delaney
1993
A Turtle's Guide to the Pacific
as Narrator
2007

Rapture
2023

Loving Hazel
as Mike
1989

Ghosted
2011
TV Appearances

Holby City
as Ric Griffin
1999

The Bill
1984

BeastMaster
1999

Rumpole of the Bailey
as Jonathan Mazenze
1975

Wolcott
as Dennis St George
1981

Virtual Murder
1992

Red Dwarf
as Computer (voice)
1988

Behaving Badly
1989
A Gentleman's Club
1988

Jason and the Argonauts
as Chiron
2000

Medics
1990

The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart
as Narrator
2010