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Richard Griffiths
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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).
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
As Uncle Vernon Dursley
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
As Vernon Dursley
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
As Vernon Dursley
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
As Vernon Dursley
The History Boys
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Withnail & I
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
As Vernon Dursley
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
As King George
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The University of British Cinema
From the dreaming spires of Cambridge to the redbrick campuses of the provinces, a journey through the British university film and what it reveals about class,...
8 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
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Hugo
2011 · Monsieur Frick
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011 · King George
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Vernon Dursley
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Vernon Dursley
The History Boys
2006 · Hector
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · Jeltz (voice)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Vernon Dursley
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · Vernon Dursley
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · Uncle Vernon Dursley
Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Bürgermeister Phillipse
In the Red
1998 · Geoffrey Crichton Potter
Blame It on the Bellboy
1992 · Maurice Horton
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · Dr. Meinheimer / Earl Hacker
King Ralph
1991 · Phipps
Withnail & I
1987 · Monty
A Private Function
1984 · Allardyce
Gandhi
1982 · Collins
Ragtime
1981 · Delmas' Assistant No. 1
Chariots of Fire
1981 · Head Porter - Caius College
Superman II
1980 · Terrorist