Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

1959

Hugh Griffith 

as

Sheik Ilderim

Ben-Hur

Hugh Emrys Griffith (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh film, stage and television actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Ben-Hur (1959) and received an additional Oscar nomination for the same category in Tom Jones (1963).