Richard Griffiths
Acting
đ 1947-07-31
Richard Thomas Griffiths 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 (1994â1997). 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+1â2: 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).
Cast credits(93)
Vernon Dursley
2001
Vernon Dursley
2002
Vernon Dursley
2004
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Winner
1956
Vernon Dursley
2007
Vernon Dursley
2010
Derek Farrow
1979
Interpreter
1972
Jean-Pierre
1981
King George
2011
Canon Humphrey Appleton
1987
Self
1978
Ronnie Harries
1975
Terrorist
1980
BĂŒrgermeister Phillipse
1999
Lawyer in Play (uncredited)
2013
Dr. Meinheimer / Earl Hacker
1991
Henry Crabbe
1994
Julian Bullard
2011
Monsieur Frick
2011
Barry Nottingham
2008
Duke of Burgundy
2012
Hans Koopman
1986
1986
Self
1991
Jeltz (voice)
2005
Elephant
1998
Collins
1982
Self - 'Vernon Dursley'
2009
Captain Billings
1984
Head Porter - Caius College
1981
Pot Belly
1983
Mr. Bayham Badger
2005
Willie Tuttle
1986
Swelter
2000
Frederick
1994
Dr. Bourdelot
2000
Window Cleaner
1976
Anton
1983
Duncan Phipps
1991
1982
Sir Tom
1981
Great Uncle Matthew
2008
Monty
1987
Delmas' Assistant No. 1
1981
Hector
2006
Sir Charles Sedley
2004
Mr. Jackson (voice)
1992
Donald
2006
Santa Claus
2008
Studio Engineer
1980
Cardinal
1987
Phil Kirby
1990
Allardyce
1984
Second Admiral
1989
Self
2000
The Colonel
2012
Landowner at Party
1998
Cheerful Bernie
1982
Sir John Falstaff
1982
Factory Boss
1979
Tierrney
2005
2002
Sidney Barron
1982
Geoffrey Crichton Potter
1998
Mr. Ridealgh
1974
Hermann Goering (voice)
2010
Board Member
1977
The Window Cleaner
1982
Jim Minty
1995
Sir Edward Marshall-Hall
2003
Self
2014
Maurice Horton
1992
Sam Broadbent
1976
Fitz / W. H. Auden
2010
Brian Beasely
1994
Self
1981
Mr. Alderman Ptolomy Tortoise/Mr. Jackson/Sir Isaac Newton
1992
1982
Brown
1987
1988
Weatherby
1990
Leo Wheeldon
1999
Self
1989
Willie Whitelaw
2002
Officer
1978
1982
1987
Thomas More voice
2005
Bedworth Hogg
1977
Park Keeper
1974
Porter
1992