65
Age
62
Movies
31
TV Shows
8.2
Rating
Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 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.
65
Died at
62
Movies
31
TV Shows
8.2
Avg Rating
Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 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.
Tony Awards
1956
Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 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).
Gender
Male
Birthday
July 31, 1947
Died
March 28, 2013
Birthplace
Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
About Time
2013
Sleepy Hollow
1999
Princes in the Tower
2005
Bedtime Stories
2008
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
Hugo
2011
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991
Private Peaceful
2012
The Brides in the Bath
2003
Superman II
1980
Gorky Park
1983
Shanghai Surprise
1986
Gandhi
1982
+ 42 more movies
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Minder
1979
Inspector Morse
1987
Bergerac
1981
Crown Court
1972
The Sweeney
1975
Pebble Mill
1991
An Audience with...
1978
The Hollow Crown
2012
Pie in the Sky
1994
Lovejoy
1986
Episodes
2011
Boon
1986
Bleak House
2005
Six Fifty-Five Special
1981
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
The Cleopatras
1983
Gormenghast
2000
Countdown
1982
+ 11 more TV shows