Herbert Griffiths (14 April 1899 – 1 January 1969[1]) was a British cinema organist, conductor, composer and arranger of concert, theatre and film music.
Waltzes from Vienna, a re-working of the 1930 operetta Walzer aus Wien with additional material by Griffiths and George H. Clutsam, was staged in London in 1931.
[9] The Viennese operetta A Kiss in Spring was originally composed by Emmerich Kálmán in 1930, but for the 1932 performances at the Alhambra Theatre in London Griffiths added to and reworked the score, with additional orchestrations by Constant Lambert, Arthur Wood, Alfred Reynolds and Walford Hyden.
In 1945-6 the Norman Ginsbury play The First Gentleman, starring Robert Morley and with music by Griffiths, was a big hit, running for 654 performances, initially at the New Theatre before transferring to the Savoy.
His music work on films included Such Is the Law (1930), Black in the Face (1954), Five O'Clock Finish (1954), That's an Order (1955), Playground Express (1955), The Stripes of Sgt.