Richard Griffiths

Known for ActingBorn 1947-07-31Died 2013-03-28Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK

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).Read more

Movies & web series

El C.I.D.

The Marksman

Showing Up

Princes in the Tower

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

The Comedy of Errors

Pie in the Sky

Bleak House

National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

About Time

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Inspector Morse

It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

The Sweeney

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Village Hall

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The Hollow Crown

Hope and Glory

Gandhi

The World Cup: A Captain's Tale

Episodes

Hugo

Lovejoy

Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

Withnail & I

Bird of Prey

Ted & Ralph

The Animal Train

Gormenghast

Minder

Ragtime

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Private Peaceful

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

Whoops Apocalypse

Breaking Glass

Venus

Stage Beauty

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

ITV Playhouse

The History Boys

Chariots of Fire

Superman II