Richard Griffiths
Known For
Acting
Born
1947-07-31 in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Died
2013-03-28
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).
Most Known For
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Vernon Dursley
Minder
as Derek Farrow
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Vernon Dursley
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as King George
Inspector Morse
as Canon Humphrey Appleton
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Vernon Dursley
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Vernon Dursley
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Vernon Dursley
Bergerac
as Jean-Pierre
Crown Court
as Interpreter
About Time
as Lawyer in Play (uncredited)
The Hollow Crown
as Duke of Burgundy
Pebble Mill
as Self
The Sweeney
as Ronnie Harries
Episodes
as Julian Bullard
Sleepy Hollow
as Bürgermeister Phillipse
An Audience with...
as Self
Pie in the Sky
as Henry Crabbe
Hugo
as Monsieur Frick
