Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1947-07-31
Day of Death
2013-03-28
Place of Birth
Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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).
Filmography (62)
Showing Up
2014
About Time
2013
Private Peaceful
2012
Hugo
2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
2010
Bedtime Stories
2008
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2008
Ballet Shoes
2008
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
The History Boys
2006
Venus
2006
