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).
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- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) as Vernon Dursley
- Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Winner
- Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Presenter
- Minder (1979) as Derek Farrow
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) as Vernon Dursley
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) as Vernon Dursley
- Crown Court (1972) as Interpreter
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) as Vernon Dursley
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) as Vernon Dursley
- Bergerac (1981) as Jean-Pierre
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) as King George
- Inspector Morse (1987) as Canon Humphrey Appleton
- The Sweeney (1975) as Ronnie Harries
- About Time (2013) as Lawyer in Play (uncredited)
- ITV Playhouse (1967) as Park keeper
- ITV Playhouse (1967) as Board member
- Pie in the Sky (1994) as Henry Crabbe
- Episodes (2011) as Julian Bullard
- An Audience with... (1978) as Self
- Screen One (1989) as Brian Beazely
- The Hollow Crown (2012) as Duke of Burgundy
- Pebble Mill (1991) as Self
- Lovejoy (1986) as Hans Koopman
- Sleepy Hollow (1999) as Bürgermeister Phillipse