He is best known for playing Biff Tannen ( and his grandson Griff Tannen and great-grandfather Buford " Mad Dog " Tannen ) in the Back to the Future trilogy and Coach Ben Fredricks on NBC's Freaks and Geeks.

When Back to the Future became a trilogy, he was asked to perform in these sequels again as Biff's grandson Griff and Biff's great-grandfather Buford " Mad Dog " Tannen.

* Back to the Future Part II ( 1989 )-Biff Tannen / Griff Tannen

He is the great-grandson of Buford " Mad Dog " Tannen, son of Kid Tannen, and the grandfather of Griff Tannen ( although it isn't specified in the movie that Griff's last name was actually Tannen, Griff did call Biff Grandpa, after which Biff confirms it to Marty who was pretending to be Marty Jr .).

As he drives away, he heads to May 19, 2015 where he grabs Marty McFly, to June 10, 1885 to collect Clara, and to prehistoric times to collect Jules and Verne, before returning to 1991 ( they escape from Griff Tannen, Buford " Mad Dog " Tannen and a Biff-like dinosaur respectively ).

For example: several skits from the cult 1960s TV show At Last the 1948 Show were resuscitated by John Cleese ( one of that show's creators ) and performed by him with various Amnesty show cast members, including fellow Pythons ( Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman ) and other peers ( John Bird, John Fortune and Tim Brooke-Taylor ( the last also an At Last the 1948 Show writer / star ), younger performers ( Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones ), and Cleese's then wife, actress / writer Connie Booth.

* Mekhi Phifer as Griff McReynolds, one of Clark's students and a former gang member who aspires to graduate high school and attend college.

As time passes, Sandy grows to trust Eddie, although Eddie is shocked during a robbery when a wounded gang member is killed by Griff to prevent him from talking.

Ukridge was played by Griff Rhys Jones, Corky by Robert Bathurst, and other members of the cast included Julian Dutton, Simon Godley, Adam Godley and Rebecca Front.

Before the release of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Professor Griff, in his role as Minister of Information, gave interviews to UK magazines on behalf of Public Enemy, during which he made homophobic and anti-Semitic remarks.

Hillgruber argued in the aftermath of Fischer's 1961 book Griff nach der Weltmacht ( Grasping at World Power ) that the old distinction made by the Swiss historian Walter Hofer between the " outbreak " of World War I in 1914, in which all of the Great Powers were equally at fault, and the " unleashing " of World War II in 1939, in which Germany was exclusively responsible, was no longer acceptable.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

* Blackball – a 2003 comedy film about a young bowls player, based upon Griff Sanders.

In this article, he also defended a comment made by Professor Griff in the past that he says was taken out of context by the media.

Anderson is a comedy sketch writer who has written for Frankie Howerd, Not the Nine O ' Clock News, and Griff Rhys Jones / Mel Smith.

In early 1820 the family moved to a house named Griff, between Nuneaton and Bedworth.

He is most famous for his work on the sketch comedy shows Not the Nine O ' Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones along with his comedy partner Griff Rhys Jones.

This was followed briefly by Smith and Goody ( with Bob Goody ) and then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones.

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff and his S1W group, DJ Lord ( DJ who replaced Terminator X in 1999 ), and Music Director Khari Wynn.

Chuck recruited Spectrum City, which included Hank Shocklee, his brother Keith Shocklee, and Eric " Vietnam " Sadler, collectively known as the Bomb Squad, to be his production team and added another Spectrum City partner, Professor Griff, to become the group's Minister of Information.

Following several months of searching for a DJ, Professor Griff saw DJ Lord at a Vestax Battle and approached him about becoming the DJ for Public Enemy.

Professor Griff is an American rapper and spoken word artist.

Professor Griff has started to emerge on the conspiracy theory scene, typically New World Order conspiracy theory.

In his 2009 book, titled Analytixz, Griff once again admitted the faults in his alleged 1989 statement: " To say the Jews are responsible for the majority of wickedness that went on around the globe, I would have to know about the majority of wickedness that went on around the globe, which is impossible ... I'm not the best knower — is.

" Griff also pointed out that not only were his words taken out of context, but that the recording was never released to the public for an unbiased listen.

The part of Arturo Ui has been played by a number of notable actors including Al Pacino, Darryl Low, Leonard Rossiter, Antony Sher, Nicol Williamson, Griff Rhys Jones and Peter Falk.

The Stone spoke, telling Arthur that he must prove himself once more worthy of Excalibur and sent him and his " squire ", the London Clan gargoyle Griff, to New York for that task.

Frederick was nicknamed " Griff " within the family.

* Comedian and presenter Griff Rhys Jones appeared as himself in July 2004, when he was drafted into Lynda's campaign to restore the Cat and Fiddle pub.

They later turn into Griff ’ s sidekicks, and eventually set themselves free.

* Griffin " Griff " Hawkins ( Adam Scott ) becomes Frankie and Joey ’ s ringleader after Harley leaves.

Griff is a smooth-talking freeloader who uses his wits and charm to weasel his way to what he wants.

When Harley returns to confront Griff, Frankie and Joey declare their independence.

One episode in the second season which took place in 1944 introduced a military character named Frank Tannen, possibly Biff's father who was later absent during the fifties, who lived in Hill Valley and was in the United States Army.

The first season also included post-credits segments with Biff Tannen telling a joke related to the episode, possibly alluding to Thomas F. Wilson's career as a stand-up comedian.

Deborah Frances Tannen ( born June 7, 1945 ) is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C .. She has been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

Also, a BTTF comic showed a " Mugsy Tannen " living in 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago as a gang boss.

Afterwards, the DeLorean appears and Marty travels back to 1931, where Biff's father, Irving " Kid " Tannen, is head of a mafia gang running various alcohol smuggling operations during the prohibition.

* Many members of Sturges ' unofficial " stock company " of character actors appear in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, among them Al Bridge, Georgia Caine, Chester Conklin, Jimmy Conlin, William Demarest, Robert Dudley, Byron Foulger, Esther Howard, Arthur Hoyt, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Melford, Torben Meyer, Frank Moran, Jack Norton, Emory Parnell, Victor Potel, Harry Rosenthal, Julius Tannen and Max Wagner.

* Many members of Sturges ' unofficial " stock company " of character actors appear in The Palm Beach Story, among them Al Bridge, Chester Conklin, Jimmy Conlin, William Demarest, Robert Dudley, Byron Foulger, Robert Greig, Harry Hayden, Arthur Hoyt, Torben Meyer, Frank Moran, Charles R. Moore, Jack Norton, Franklin Pangborn, Victor Potel, Dewey Robinson, Harry Rosenthal, Julius Tannen and Robert Warwick.