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).
Acting
Movie
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Vernon Dursley
2001
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Vernon Dursley
2002
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Vernon Dursley
2004
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Vernon Dursley
2007
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Vernon Dursley
2010
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as King George
2011
Movie
About Time
as Lawyer in Play (uncredited)
2013
Movie
Hugo
as Monsieur Frick
2011
Movie
Sleepy Hollow
as Bürgermeister Phillipse
1999
Movie
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Jeltz (voice)
2005
Movie
Bedtime Stories
as Barry Nottingham
2008
Movie
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
as Dr. Meinheimer / Earl Hacker
1991
Movie
Superman II
as Terrorist
1980
Movie
Gandhi
as Collins
1982
Movie
Chariots of Fire
as Head Porter - Caius College
1981
Movie
Withnail & I
as Monty
1987
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Captain Billings
1984
Movie
Guarding Tess
as Frederick
1994
Movie
Gorky Park
as Anton
1983
Movie
King Ralph
as Duncan Phipps
1991
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Ballet Shoes
as Great Uncle Matthew
2008
Movie
The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Sir Tom
1981
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The History Boys
as Hector
2006
TV
Episodes
as Julian Bullard
2011