Richard Griffiths
Birthday: 1947-07-31
Place of Birth: Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography: Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 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 Chamber of Secrets
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of hi...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching ...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11t...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Returning for his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the retur...
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Bedtime Stories
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and neph...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love — or i...
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Sleepy Hollow
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, w...
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King Ralph
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn...
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Ballet Shoes
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy ...
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Twelve Off the Belt
Grand Challenge pie-eating contest : ' Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in half-an-hour....
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Vatel
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festiv...
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The History Boys
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining...
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Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by...
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Stage Beauty
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the mal...
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A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
When Gonzo forgets to mail three letters to Santa, he convinces Kermit and the gang to help him deli...
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Blame It on the Bellboy
Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit...
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Withnail & I
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail ...
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Venus
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest frien...
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Funny Bones
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns t...
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Hugo
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s P...
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A Private Function
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince ...
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Shanghai Surprise
Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a mission...
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Opa!
A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time....
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Goldeneye
British writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent James B...
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Private Peaceful
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl...
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The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durha...
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A Light Snack
A window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory....
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Showing Up
An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists in...
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National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richa...
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Gorky Park
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but find...
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Guarding Tess
Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—t...
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The Comedy of Errors
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identic...
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Ted & Ralph
One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'. Ralp...
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Casanova
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because ...
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Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert.The record company ask the question is he worth mor...
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Norma
Norma is a woman who appears to be leading a very complicated emotional life; she's involved with no...
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Afternoon Off
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. T...
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Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
Darkly comic murder mystery adapted from Bernice Rubens 's Booker Prize-winning bestseller. Luke Wa...
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The Brides in the Bath
Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of ...
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Ragtime
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the ra...
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lad...
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to s...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swep...
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Superman II
Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a de...
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The Movie Life of George
When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures ...
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays ...
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Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everyth...
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Jackboots on Whitehall
A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band t...
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Breaking Glass
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in th...
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Chariots of Fire
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...
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A Breed of Heroes
In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by ...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the ...
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Well Thank You, Thursday
Miss Shepherd of the registry office is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected...
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About Time
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in ...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...
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Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow....
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Classic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were...
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Princes in the Tower
Drama - The mystery surrounding the disappearance 12 year-old King Edward V and his brother Richard,...
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The Animal Train
Animation short about a little boy that sets off on a round-the-world night train to dreamland with ...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 8. The six fluffy babies of Benjamin Bunny are in g...
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