Michael Gambon

Sir Michael John Gambon was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards and four BAFTA TV Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. Gambon appeared in many productions of works by William Shakespeare such as Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and Coriolanus. Gambon was nominated for thirteen Olivier Awards, winning three times for A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), A View from the Bridge (1987), and Man of the Moment (1990). In 1997, Gambon made his Broadway debut in David Hare's Skylight, earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Gambon made his film debut in Othello (1965). His other notable films include The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), The Wings of the Dove (1997), The Insider (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Amazing Grace (2006), The King's Speech (2010), Quartet (2012), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). Gambon also appeared in the Wes Anderson films The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). Gambon gained wider recognition through his role of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series from 2004 to 2011, replacing Richard Harris following his death in 2002. For his work on television, he received four BAFTA Awards for The Singing Detective (1986), Wives and Daughters (1999), Longitude (2000), and Perfect Strangers (2001). He also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Path to War (2002) and Emma (2009). Gambon's other notable projects include Cranford (2007) and The Casual Vacancy (2015). In 2017, he received the Irish Film & Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, he was listed at No. 27 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Known For: Acting

Born: Cabra, Dublin, Ireland, 1940-10-19

Died: 2023-09-27

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	Othello		64
2	1965	Othello	Senators-Soldiers-Cypriots	64
3	1967	Much Ado About Nothing	Other Watchman	55
4	1967	Romeo and Juliet	Gregory	0
5	1971	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Theseus	0
6	1972	Cows	Max	0
7	1973	Nothing But the Night	Insp. Grant	61
8	1973	The Catholics	Brother Kevin	53
9	1974	The Beast Must Die	Jan Jarmokowski	54
10	1974	Bold Face: Condensed	John	0
11	1975	The Secret Agent		0
12	1976	The Other Woman	Robin	40
13	1976	In the Labyrinth	Duncan Harrison	0
14	1976	Tiptoe Through the Tulips	Piers	0
15	1976	French Without Tears	Lt Cmdr Rogers	0
16	1978	The Seagull	Trigorin	0
17	1978	One of These Nights I'm Gonna Get an Early Day	Kenny	0
18	1982	The Breadwinner	Charles Battle	0
19	1985	Absurd Person Singular	Geoffrey	80
20	1985	Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie		0
21	1985	Turtle Diary	George Fairbairn	65
22	1987	Ghosts	Pastor Manders	0
23	1988	Missing Link	Narrator (voice)	62
24	1988	Mountain Language	Sergeant	40
25	1989	Monster Maker	Ultragorgon	65
26	1989	Monster Maker	Ultragorgon(voice)	65
27	1989	Paris by Night	Gerald Paige	45
28	1989	The Rachel Papers	Doctor Knowd	51
29	1989	The Heat of the Day	Harrison	0
30	1989	A Dry White Season	Magistrate	67
31	1989	The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover	Albert Spica	73
32	1991	Mobsters	Don Salvatore Faranzano	63
33	1992	Toys	General Zevo	53
34	1993	The Entertainer	Archie Rice	70
35	1994	Clean Slate	Cornell	58
36	1994	The Browning Version	Dr. Frobisher	65
37	1994	Squanto: A Warrior's Tale	Sir George	67
38	1994	A Man of No Importance	Ivor J. Carney	63
39	1995	Bullet to Beijing	Alexei	48
40	1995	The Wind in the Willows	Badger	70
41	1996	The Innocent Sleep	Det. Insp. Matheson	43
42	1996	Mary Reilly	Mary’s Father	58
43	1996	Two Deaths	Daniel Pavenic	54
44	1996	Midnight in Saint Petersburg	Alex	48
45	1996	Nothing Personal	Leonard	45
46	1996	Samson and Delilah	King Hamun	65
47	1996	The Willows in Winter	Badger	70
48	1997	The Wings of the Dove	Lionel Croy	67
49	1997	The Gambler	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	49
50	1998	A Roll of the Dice: The Capeman on Broadway	Narrator (voice)	0
51	1998	Dancing at Lughnasa	Father Jack Mundy	59
52	1999	Dead on Time	Maurice Silverman	0
53	1999	Plunkett & MacLeane	Lord Gibson	61
54	1999	The Insider	Thomas Sandefur	75
55	1999	Sleepy Hollow	Baltus Van Tassel	72
56	2000	Longitude	John Harrison	73
57	2000	The Last September	Sir Richard Naylor	52
58	2000	Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend	Self	70
59	2000	Endgame	Hamm	68
60	2001	High Heels and Low Lifes	Kerrigan	60
61	2001	Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love	Self	0
62	2001	Christmas Carol: The Movie	Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)	51
63	2001	Gosford Park	William McCordle	68
64	2001	Charlotte Gray	Levade	61
65	2002	Ali G Indahouse	Prime Minister	61
66	2002	The Making of 'Gosford Park'	Self	50
67	2003	The Actors	Barreller	57
68	2003	Deep Blue	Narrator (voice)	68
69	2003	Open Range	Denton Baxter	72
70	2003	Sylvia	Professor Thomas	58
71	2003	Top Gear: Back in the Fast Lane	Self	65
72	2003	Path to War	Lyndon Johnson	67
73	2003	Little Wolf's Book of Badness	Uncle Bigbad (voice)	75
74	2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Albus Dumbledore	80
75	2004	The Magic Touch of Harry Potter	Self	76
76	2004	Being Julia	Jimmie Langton	65
77	2004	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Paley	59
78	2004	Layer Cake	Eddie Temple	69
79	2004	Stories of Lost Souls	Larry	56
80	2004	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Oseary Drakoulias	71
81	2005	Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal	Self	61
82	2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Albus Dumbledore	78
83	2006	The Omen	Bugenhagen	56
84	2006	Amazing Grace	Lord Charles Fox	69
85	2006	John Duffy's Brother	Narrator	0
86	2006	The Good Shepherd	Dr. Fredericks	63
87	2007	The Good Night	Alan Weigert	53
88	2007	The Baker	Leo	64
89	2007	Celebration	Lambert	63
90	2007	The Alps - Climb of Your Life	Narrator (voice)	68
91	2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Albus Dumbledore	77
92	2007	Joe's Palace	Elliot Graham	61
93	2008	Brideshead Revisited	Lord Marchmain	63
94	2009	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	Albus Dumbledore	77
95	2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Franklin Bean (voice)	78
96	2010	The Book of Eli	George	68
97	2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1	Albus Dumbledore	77
98	2010	The King's Speech	King George V	77
99	2010	Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol	Old Kazran / Elliot Sardick	79
100	2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	Albus Dumbledore	81
101	2011	Page Eight	Benedict Baron	66
102	2011	When Harry Left Hogwarts	Self	70
103	2012	London: The Modern Babylon	Self (voice)	65
104	2012	Quartet	Cedric Livingston	65
105	2013	Muse of Fire	Self	65
106	2013	National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage	Hirst	63
107	2013	Lucan	John Burke	60
108	2014	Common	Judge	65
109	2014	Paddington	Uncle Pastuzo (voice)	71
110	2014	On Angel Wings	Grandfather	30
111	2015	Unity	Narrator (voice)	75
112	2015	Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC	Self (archive footage)	0
113	2016	Dad's Army	Private Godfrey	50
114	2016	Hail, Caesar!	Narrator (voice)	59
115	2016	Churchill's Secret	Winston Churchill	63
116	2017	Viceroy's House	General Hastings Ismay	66
117	2017	Mad to Be Normal	Sidney Kotok	59
118	2017	Victoria & Abdul	Lord Salisbury	69
119	2017	Kingsman: The Golden Circle	Arthur	70
120	2017	Paddington 2	Uncle Pastuzo (voice)	75
121	2018	The Last Witness	Frank Hamilton	60
122	2018	Citizen Lane	Lord Ardilaun	70
123	2018	King of Thieves	Billy 'The Fish' Lincoln	55
124	2018	Johnny English Strikes Again	Agent Five	63
125	2019	The Death & Life of John F. Donovan	Man in Diner	69
126	2019	Cordelia	Mr. Moses	50
127	2019	Judy	Bernard Delfont	67
128	2024	Doctor Who at the Proms	Kazran Sardick (archive footage)	70

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The BAFTA Awards	Self - Winner	100
2	1965	Public Eye		78
3	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Gregory	50
4	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Theseus	50
5	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Lt. Cmdr. Bill Rogers	50
6	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Boris Trigorin	50
7	1966	Softly, Softly		50
8	1967	Omnibus	Self	72
9	1968	The Borderers	Gavin Ker	0
10	1969	Softly Softly: Task Force	Cranley	60
11	1970	Play for Today	Piers	63
12	1970	Play for Today	Max	63
13	1970	Play for Today	Robin	63
14	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
15	1972	Arthur of the Britons	Roland	60
16	1977	The Other One	Brian Bryant	70
17	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Andrew	67
18	1979	Minder	Tommy Hambury	68
19	1981	Bergerac	Jarvis McLeod	67
20	1985	Oscar	Oscar Wilde	40
21	1985	Theatre Night	Pastor Manders	0
22	1986	The Singing Detective	Philip Marlow	76
23	1987	The Dame Edna Experience	Self	50
24	1989	The Jim Henson Hour	Ultragorgon (voice)	89
25	1989	About Face		60
26	1990	Have I Got News for You	Self	71
27	1991	Performance	Archie Rice	60
28	1991	The Storyteller: Greek Myths	The Storyteller	81
29	1992	Maigret	Chief Inspector Maigret	69
30	1993	GMTV	Self	56
31	1994	Room 101	Self	63
32	1994	Faith	Peter John Moreton	100
33	1996	Samson and Delilah	Re Hamun	0
34	1999	Wives and Daughters	Squire Hamley	73
35	2000	Longitude	John Harrison	70
36	2001	Perfect Strangers	Raymond	66
37	2001	Richard & Judy	Self	29
38	2002	Top Gear	Self	75
39	2003	The Lost Prince	King Edward VII	71
40	2003	Angels in America	Prior Walter Ancestor #1	76
41	2007	Cranford	Thomas Holbrook	81
42	2009	Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire	Narrator	63
43	2009	Emma	Mr. Woodhouse	77
44	2009	Creating the World of Harry Potter	Self - 'Professor Albus Dumbledore'	100
45	2010	The Michael Ball Show	Self	0
46	2012	Luck	Michael	68
47	2012	The Hollow Crown	Mortimer	73
48	2012	Restless	Baron Mansfield / Lucas Romer	71
49	2013	The Frame	Professor Albus Dumbledore	100
50	2013	Lucan	John Burke	72
51	2014	Quirke	Judge Garret Griffin	58
52	2015	Fortitude	Henry Tyson	69
53	2015	The Casual Vacancy	Howard Mollison	62
54	2016	The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells	Elderly Philosopher	62
55	2017	Fearless	Sir Alistair McKinnon	67
56	2017	Little Women	Mr. Laurence	71