Richard Griffiths
Acting
🎂 1947-07-31
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).
Cast credits(93)
Derek Farrow
1979
Julian Bullard
2011
Jean-Pierre
1981
Self
1991
Sir John Falstaff
1978
Vernon Dursley
2001
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Winner
1956
Self
1981
Self
1978
Ronnie Harries
1975
Vernon Dursley
2002
Canon Humphrey Appleton
1987
Vernon Dursley
2004
Vernon Dursley
2007
Interpreter
1972
Henry Crabbe
1994
Vernon Dursley
2010
Duke of Burgundy
2012
Hans Koopman
1986
King George
2011
Mr. Bayham Badger
2005
1982
1986
Lawyer in Play (uncredited)
2013
1987
Pot Belly
1983
Leo Wheeldon
1999
Mr. Jackson (voice)
1992
Swelter
2000
Bürgermeister Phillipse
1999
Dr. Meinheimer / Earl Hacker
1991
Monsieur Frick
2011
1982
Terrorist
1980
Jeltz (voice)
2005
Collins
1982
Mr. Ridealgh
1974
1982
Self - 'Vernon Dursley'
2009
Barry Nottingham
2008
Sir Tom
1981
Head Porter - Caius College
1981
Monty
1987
Phil Kirby
1990
Geoffrey Crichton Potter
1998
Brown
1987
Captain Billings
1984
Anton
1983
Hermann Goering (voice)
2010
Dr. Bourdelot
2000
Allardyce
1984
Frederick
1994
2002
Delmas' Assistant No. 1
1981
Great Uncle Matthew
2008
Duncan Phipps
1991
Hector
2006
Donald
2006
Willie Tuttle
1986
Self
2000
Sir Charles Sedley
2004
1988
Studio Engineer
1980
Weatherby
1990
Cheerful Bernie
1982
Santa Claus
2008
The Colonel
2012
Jim Minty
1995
Self
2014
Second Admiral
1989
Maurice Horton
1992
Sam Broadbent
1976
Self
1989
Sir John Falstaff
1982
Cardinal
1987
Sidney Barron
1982
Porter
1992
Landowner at Party
1998
Tierrney
2005
Mr. Alderman Ptolomy Tortoise/Mr. Jackson/Sir Isaac Newton
1992
Factory Boss
1979
Sir Edward Marshall-Hall
2003
Willie Whitelaw
2002
Window Cleaner
1976
Officer
1978
Board Member
1977
Brian Beasely
1994
Bedworth Hogg
1977
The Window Cleaner
1982
Park Keeper
1974
Thomas More voice
2005
Fitz / W. H. Auden
2010