Richard Griffiths

Acting

Born: 1947-07-31 in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Biography

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).

Richard Griffiths

Biography

Known For

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Crown Court

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Minder

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Pebble Mill

Bergerac

Inspector Morse

ITV Playhouse

ITV Playhouse

Sleepy Hollow

About Time

The Sweeney

Gormenghast

TFI Friday

Episodes

Boon

Superman II

Pie in the Sky

An Audience with...

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

Hugo

Six Fifty-Five Special

Lovejoy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Screen One

The Hollow Crown

Bedtime Stories

Gandhi

Countdown

Chariots of Fire

Second City Firsts

Bird of Prey

Guarding Tess