Richard Griffiths
- Recitazione
- 31 luglio 1947 · Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
- 28 marzo 2013
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Showing Up · In persona
- Questione di tempo · Lawyer in Play (uncredited)
- Private Peaceful · The Colonel
- The Hollow Crown · Duke of Burgundy
- Hugo Cabret · Monsieur Frick
- Pirati dei Caraibi - Oltre i confini del mare · King George
- Episodes · Julian Bullard
- Harry Potter e i Doni della Morte - Parte 1 · Vernon Dursley
- Jackboots on Whitehall · Hermann Goering (Voce)
- National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art · Fitz / W. H. Auden
- Racconti incantati · Barry Nottingham
- Il Natale dei Muppets - Lettere a Babbo Natale · Santa Claus
- Ballet Shoes · Great Uncle Matthew
- Harry Potter e l'ordine della fenice · Vernon Dursley
- The History Boys · Hector
- Venus · Donald
- The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends · Mr. Alderman Ptolomy Tortoise/Mr. Jackson/Sir Isaac Newton
- Opa! · Tierrney
- Bleak House · Mr. Bayham Badger
- Guida galattica per autostoppisti · Jeltz (Voce)
- Princes in the Tower · Thomas More voice
- Stage Beauty · Sir Charles Sedley
- Harry Potter e il prigioniero di Azkaban · Vernon Dursley
- The Brides in the Bath · Sir Edward Marshall-Hall
- Jeffrey Archer: The Truth · Willie Whitelaw
- tlc · Mr Benedict Ron
- Harry Potter e la camera dei segreti · Vernon Dursley
- Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale · Uncle Vernon Dursley
- Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend · In persona
- Vatel · Dr. Bourdelot
- Gormenghast · Swelter
- Il mistero di Sleepy Hollow · Bürgermeister Phillipse
- Hope and Glory · Leo Wheeldon
- Ted & Ralph · Landowner at Party
- Oi! Get Off Our Train · Elephant
- In the Red · Geoffrey Crichton Potter
- The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse · Mr. Jackson (Voce)
- TFI Friday
- Il commediante · Jim Minty
- A Breed of Heroes · Brian Beasely
- Pie in the Sky · Henry Crabbe
- Cara, insopportabile Tess · Frederick
- Il mondo di Peter Coniglio e dei suoi amici · Mr. Jackson (Voce)
- Mr. Wakefield's Crusade · Porter
- Tutta colpa del fattorino · Maurice Horton
- Pebble Mill · In persona
- Una pallottola spuntata 2½ - L'odore della paura · Dr. Meinheimer / Earl Hacker
- Sua maestà viene da Las Vegas · Phipps
- Perfect Scoundrels · Phil Kirby
- El C.I.D. · Weatherby
- Screen One · Brian Beazely
- Goldeneye · Second Admiral
- The Movie Life of George · In persona
- A Kind of Living · Trevor Beasley
- The Marksman · Brown
- Ffizz · Jack Mowbray
- Shakespeare a colazione · Monty
- Casanova · Cardinal
- Ispettore Morse · Canon Humphrey Appleton
- Shanghai Surprise · Willie Tuttle
- Boon
- Lovejoy · Hans Koopman
- Pranzo reale · Allardyce
- Greystoke - La leggenda di Tarzan, il signore delle scimmie · Captain Billings
- Gorky Park · Anton
- The Cleopatras · Pot Belly
- Le Allegre Comari di Windsor · Sir John Falstaff
- Gandhi · Collins
- Countdown
- A Light Snack · The Window Cleaner
- The World Cup: A Captain's Tale · Sidney Barron
- Britannia Hospital · Cheerful Bernie
- Bird of Prey · Henry Jay
- Whoops Apocalypse · Premier Dubienkin
- Ragtime · Delmas' Assistant No. 1
- L'asso della Manica · Jean-Pierre
- Prisoners of Conscience · William Beausire
- La donna del tenente francese · Sir Tom
- Six Fifty-Five Special · In persona
- Momenti di gloria · Head Porter - Caius College