Richard Griffiths
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).
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1947-07-31
Place of birth
Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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Cast
Bedtime Stories
2008
6.16
Sleepy Hollow
1999
7.20
King Ralph
1991
5.35
Ballet Shoes
2008
6.36
Twelve Off the Belt
1977
0.00
Vatel
2000
6.10
The History Boys
2006
6.63
Britannia Hospital
1982
6.20
Stage Beauty
2004
6.60
Blame It on the Bellboy
1992
5.30
Withnail & I
1987
7.20
Venus
2006
6.63
Funny Bones
1995
6.50
Hugo
2011
7.20
A Private Function
1984
6.39
Shanghai Surprise
1986
4.26
Opa!
2005
5.70
Goldeneye
1989
5.76
Private Peaceful
2012
6.60
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
1982
7.00
A Light Snack
1982
5.80
Showing Up
2014
9.20
Gorky Park
1983
6.32
Guarding Tess
1994
5.99
The Comedy of Errors
1978
8.80
Ted & Ralph
1998
6.60
Casanova
1987
3.86
Gandhi
1982
7.56
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977
0.00
Norma
1974
0.00
Afternoon Off
1979
0.00
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
1992
4.50
The Brides in the Bath
2003
5.36
Ragtime
1981
7.00
Superman II
1980
6.70
The Movie Life of George
1989
0.00
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
1976
6.00
Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
2002
4.17
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
4.90
Breaking Glass
1980
6.80
Chariots of Fire
1981
6.77
A Breed of Heroes
1994
1.00
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
6.44
Well Thank You, Thursday
1976
0.00
About Time
2013
7.91
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
8.00
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000
7.13
Princes in the Tower
2005
0.00
The Animal Train
1998
7.00
