Richard Griffiths
Acting
Born 1947-07-31
Died 2013-03-28
Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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Richard Thomas Griffiths (July 31, 1947 – March 28, 2013) was an English actor of film, television, and stage. For his performance in the stage play The History Boys, Griffiths won a Tony Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award. For the 2006 film adaptation, Griffiths was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
He played Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films (2001-2010) and Great Uncle Matthew Brown "Gum" in the BBC film Ballet Shoes (2007). He also portrayed Uncle Monty in Withnail and I (1987), and Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky (1994–1997). Earlier in his career, he had supporting roles in such critically acclaimed films as Chariots of Fire (1981), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Gandhi (1982), and The Naked Gun 2+1⁄2: The Smell of Fear (1991). In his later career he appeared in Sleepy Hollow (1999), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and in Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011).
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Filmography
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Tony Awards
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Minder
Crown Court
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Bergerac
About Time
Inspector Morse
TFI Friday
Pebble Mill
Sleepy Hollow
The Sweeney
Superman II
ITV Playhouse
An Audience with...
The Hollow Crown
Lovejoy
Pie in the Sky
Boon
Episodes
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
Bedtime Stories
Hugo
Screen One
Second City Firsts
Bleak House
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Gandhi
Withnail & I
Guarding Tess
Chariots of Fire
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Six Fifty-Five Special
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Gorky Park
Countdown
King Ralph
Funny Bones
Gormenghast
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Perfect Scoundrels
Vatel
In the Red
Bird of Prey
Ballet Shoes
The Cleopatras
Ragtime
El C.I.D.
tlc
Whoops Apocalypse
The History Boys
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
Hope and Glory
Casanova
Venus
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