Acting
Richard Griffiths
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).
Movies with Richard Griffiths
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
About Time
2013
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
Hugo
2011
Sleepy Hollow
1999
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
Superman II
1980
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991
Bedtime Stories
2008
Withnail & I
1987
Chariots of Fire
1981
Gandhi
1982
Ballet Shoes
2008
Funny Bones
1995
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
Showing Up
2014
Gorky Park
1983
Guarding Tess
1994
Vatel
2000
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
Goldeneye
1989
Casanova
1987
King Ralph
1991
Ragtime
1981
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000
Stage Beauty
2004
Shanghai Surprise
1986
The History Boys
2006
Private Peaceful
2012
Breaking Glass
1980
Britannia Hospital
1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
Venus
2006
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2008
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
1982
Opa!
2005
Ted & Ralph
1998
Blame It on the Bellboy
1992
Afternoon Off
1979
A Private Function
1984
Norma
1974
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
1976
Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
2002
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
1992
The Movie Life of George
1989
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse
1996
A Light Snack
1982
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
2010
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977
The Animal Train
1998
A Breed of Heroes
1994
The Comedy of Errors
1978
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
2006
The Brides in the Bath
2003
Princes in the Tower
2005
Twelve Off the Belt
1977
Well Thank You, Thursday
1976
TV Shows with Richard Griffiths
Minder
1979
Tony Awards
1956
Crown Court
1972
Bergerac
1981
ITV Playhouse
1967
Inspector Morse
1987
The Sweeney
1975
Pebble Mill
1991
Episodes
2011
An Audience with...
1978
Screen One
1989
Pie in the Sky
1994
Lovejoy
1986
The Hollow Crown
2012
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
Boon
1986
Bleak House
2005
Six Fifty-Five Special
1981
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
Second City Firsts
1973
Gormenghast
2000
Countdown
1982
Whoops Apocalypse
1982
The Cleopatras
1983
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
In the Red
1998
El C.I.D.
1990
tlc
2002
Bird of Prey
1982
Ffizz
1987
Village Hall
1974
The Marksman
1987
Hope and Glory
1999
Red Letter Day
1976
A Kind of Living
1988