Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths

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).

Known For: Acting

Born: Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK, 1947-07-31

Died: 2013-03-28

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	Norma	Park Keeper	0
2	1976	Well Thank You, Thursday	Window Cleaner	0
3	1976	It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet	Sam Broadbent	60
4	1977	Twelve Off the Belt	Bedworth Hogg	0
5	1977	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	Board Member	0
6	1978	The Comedy of Errors	Officer	88
7	1979	Afternoon Off	Factory Boss	0
8	1980	Breaking Glass	Studio Engineer	69
9	1980	Superman II	Terrorist	67
10	1981	Chariots of Fire	Head Porter - Caius College	68
11	1981	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Sir Tom	64
12	1981	Ragtime	Delmas' Assistant No. 1	70
13	1982	Britannia Hospital	Cheerful Bernie	63
14	1982	The World Cup: A Captain's Tale	Sidney Barron	70
15	1982	A Light Snack	The Window Cleaner	58
16	1982	Gandhi	Collins	76
17	1982	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Sir John Falstaff	80
18	1983	Gorky Park	Anton	63
19	1984	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Captain Billings	64
20	1984	A Private Function	Allardyce	63
21	1986	Shanghai Surprise	Willie Tuttle	42
22	1987	Casanova	Cardinal	42
23	1987	Withnail & I	Monty	73
24	1989	The Movie Life of George	Self	0
25	1989	Goldeneye	Second Admiral	60
26	1991	King Ralph	Duncan Phipps	54
27	1991	The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear	Dr. Meinheimer / Earl Hacker	68
28	1992	The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends	Mr. Alderman Ptolomy Tortoise/Mr. Jackson/Sir Isaac Newton	85
29	1992	Blame It on the Bellboy	Maurice Horton	54
30	1992	Mr. Wakefield's Crusade	Porter	45
31	1994	Guarding Tess	Frederick	60
32	1994	A Breed of Heroes	Brian Beasely	10
33	1995	Funny Bones	Jim Minty	65
34	1998	Ted & Ralph	Landowner at Party	66
35	1999	Sleepy Hollow	Bürgermeister Phillipse	72
36	2000	Vatel	Dr. Bourdelot	61
37	2000	Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend	Self	70
38	2001	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Vernon Dursley	79
39	2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Vernon Dursley	77
40	2002	Jeffrey Archer: The Truth	Willie Whitelaw	48
41	2003	The Brides in the Bath	Sir Edward Marshall-Hall	59
42	2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Vernon Dursley	80
43	2004	Stage Beauty	Sir Charles Sedley	67
44	2005	Princes in the Tower	Thomas More voice	0
45	2005	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Jeltz (voice)	67
46	2005	Opa!	Tierrney	57
47	2006	Venus	Donald	66
48	2006	The History Boys	Hector	67
49	2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Vernon Dursley	77
50	2008	Ballet Shoes	Great Uncle Matthew	64
51	2008	A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa	Santa Claus	60
52	2008	Bedtime Stories	Barry Nottingham	62
53	2010	National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art	Fitz / W. H. Auden	80
54	2010	Jackboots on Whitehall	Hermann Goering (voice)	50
55	2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1	Vernon Dursley	77
56	2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	King George	66
57	2011	Hugo	Monsieur Frick	72
58	2012	Private Peaceful	The Colonel	66
59	2013	About Time	Lawyer in Play (uncredited)	79
60	2014	Showing Up	Self	92

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
2	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	51
3	1972	Crown Court	Interpreter	54
4	1974	Village Hall	Mr. Ridealgh	0
5	1975	The Sweeney	Ronnie Harries	77
6	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
7	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Sir John Falstaff	60
8	1979	Minder	Derek Farrow	68
9	1981	Six Fifty-Five Special	Self	0
10	1981	Bergerac	Jean-Pierre	67
11	1982	Whoops Apocalypse		72
12	1982	Bird of Prey		55
13	1982	Countdown		58
14	1983	The Cleopatras	Pot Belly	30
15	1986	Lovejoy	Hans Koopman	73
16	1986	Boon		55
17	1987	Inspector Morse	Canon Humphrey Appleton	78
18	1987	Ffizz		0
19	1987	The Marksman	Brown	0
20	1988	Kind of Living		50
21	1990	El C.I.D.	Weatherby	0
22	1990	Perfect Scoundrels	Phil Kirby	60
23	1991	Pebble Mill	Self	31
24	1992	The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends	Mr. Jackson (voice)	61
25	1994	Pie in the Sky	Henry Crabbe	82
26	1998	In the Red	Geoffrey Crichton Potter	62
27	1999	Hope and Glory	Leo Wheeldon	50
28	2000	Gormenghast	Swelter	70
29	2002	TLC		45
30	2005	Bleak House	Mr. Bayham Badger	82
31	2009	Creating the World of Harry Potter	Self - 'Vernon Dursley'	100
32	2011	Episodes	Julian Bullard	72
33	2012	The Hollow Crown	Duke of Burgundy	73

Richard Griffiths

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