Richard Griffiths

Actor, Film actor

1947 – 2013

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Who was Richard Griffiths?

Richard Griffiths, OBE was an English actor of stage, film and television. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, all for his role in the play The History Boys.

He also played Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films, Uncle Monty in Withnail and I, Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky, and King George II in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. He also appeared as a British journalist in Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning 1982 film Gandhi.

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Born
Jul 31, 1947
Thornaby-on-Tees
Also known as
  • Richard Griffiths, OBE
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Religion
  • Catholicism
Ethnicity
  • English people
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Manchester Metropolitan University
Died
Mar 28, 2013
Coventry

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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