Acting

Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths paling terkenal dengan Episodes, Inspector Morse, The Hollow Crown dan Bleak House. Richard Griffiths dilahirkan pada 31 Julai 1947. Richard Griffiths meninggal dunia pada 28 Mac 2013 ketika berumur 65 tahun.

Lahir: 31 Julai 1947
Tempat lahir: Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Meninggal dunia: 28 Mac 2013 (65 tahun)

Biografi

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).