Michael Gambon
Sir Michael John Gambon (October 19, 1940 – September 27, 2023) was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards and four BAFTA TV Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. Gambon appeared in many productions of works by William Shakespeare such as Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and Coriolanus. Gambon was nominated for thirteen Olivier Awards, winning three times for A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), A View from the Bridge (1987), and Man of the Moment (1990). In 1997, Gambon made his Broadway debut in David Hare's Skylight, earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Gambon made his film debut in Othello (1965). His other notable films include The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), The Wings of the Dove (1997), The Insider (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Amazing Grace (2006), The King's Speech (2010), Quartet (2012), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). Gambon also appeared in the Wes Anderson films The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). Gambon gained wider recognition through his role of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series from 2004 to 2011, replacing Richard Harris following his death in 2002. For his work on television, he received four BAFTA Awards for The Singing Detective (1986), Wives and Daughters (1999), Longitude (2000), and Perfect Strangers (2001). He also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Path to War (2002) and Emma (2009). Gambon's other notable projects include Cranford (2007) and The Casual Vacancy (2015). In 2017, he received the Irish Film & Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, he was listed at No. 27 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling...
Movie page
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of...
Movie page
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all....
Movie page
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the...
Movie page
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings...
Movie page
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no...
Movie page
Sleepy Hollow
as Baltus Van TasselSkeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New...
Movie page
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
as ArthurWhen an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and...
Movie page
Paddington
as Uncle Pastuzo (voice)A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone...
Movie page
The Book of Eli
as GeorgeA post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a...
Movie page
Paddington 2
as Uncle Pastuzo (voice)Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the...
Movie page
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Franklin Bean (voice)The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local...
Movie page
Hail, Caesar!
as Narrator (voice)When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their...
Movie page
Johnny English Strikes Again
as Agent FiveDisaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover...
Movie page
The King's Speech
as King George VThe King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen...
Movie page
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a...
Movie page
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
as Albert SpicaThe wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her...
Movie page
King of Thieves
as Billy 'The Fish' LincolnLondon, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars...
Movie page
Victoria & Abdul
as Lord SalisburyQueen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Movie page
Gosford Park
as William McCordleIn 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of...
Movie page
Open Range
as Denton BaxterA former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened...
Movie page
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
as PaleyWhen gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight...
Movie page
The Omen
as BugenhagenA diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic...
Movie page
The Good Shepherd
as Dr. FredericksEdward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones...
Movie page
The Insider
as Thomas SandefurA research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a...
Movie page
Layer Cake
as Eddie TempleWhen a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and...
Movie page
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil...
Movie page
Ali G Indahouse
as Prime MinisterAli G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister...
Movie page
Amazing Grace
as Lord Charles FoxThe true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade....
Movie page
Dad's Army
as Private GodfreyA cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard...
Movie page
Being Julia
as Jimmie LangtonJulia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all -...
Movie page
A Man of No Importance
as Ivor J. CarneyAlfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of...
Movie page
Page Eight
as Benedict BaronJohnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable...
Movie page
Clean Slate
as CornellPogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia,...
Movie page
The Wind in the Willows
as BadgerKenneth Grahame's literary classic about an enchanting world along the Riverbank has delighted...
Movie page
Samson and Delilah
as King HamunBiblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.
Movie page
Judy
as Bernard DelfontThirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland...
Movie page
Viceroy's House
as General Hastings IsmayIn 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to...
Movie page
The Last Witness
as Frank HamiltonAn ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during...
Movie page
Mary Reilly
as Mary’s FatherA housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Movie page
A Dry White Season
as MagistrateDuring the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he...
Movie page
Brideshead Revisited
as Lord MarchmainArtist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her...
Movie page
The Rachel Papers
as Doctor KnowdPoised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a...
Movie page
Sylvia
as Professor ThomasStory of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Movie page
Mobsters
as Don Salvatore FaranzanoThe story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street...
Movie page
Plunkett & MacLeane
as Lord GibsonWill Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in...
Movie page
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
as Man in DinerA decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written...
Movie page
The Wings of the Dove
as Lionel CroyKate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt...
Movie page
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
as Old Kazran / Elliot SardickAmy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh...
Movie page
Charlotte Gray
as LevadeThis is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells...
Movie page
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as SelfA 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes...
Movie page
The Good Night
as Alan WeigertGary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes...
Movie page
Unity
as Narrator (voice)Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none...
Movie page
Quartet
as Cedric LivingstonCissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to...
Movie page
Dancing at Lughnasa
as Father Jack MundyFive unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Movie page
High Heels and Low Lifes
as KerriganA nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She...
Movie page
Deep Blue
as Narrator (voice)Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic...
Movie page
Christmas Carol: The Movie
as Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)Animated version of the classic Charles Dickens story. Warned by the ghost of his old business...
Movie page
Joe's Palace
as Elliot GrahamA drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a...
Movie page
The Baker
as LeoMilo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the...
Movie page
Nothing But the Night
as Insp. GrantWhen various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first...
Movie page
Path to War
as Lyndon JohnsonA powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's...
Movie page
The Browning Version
as Dr. FrobisherAndrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep...
Movie page
Longitude
as John HarrisonParallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at...
Movie page
Monster Maker
as UltragorgonA young boy wants to work with a famous creature/fx man but gets more than he bargained when one...
Movie page
Monster Maker
as Ultragorgon(voice)A young boy wants to work with a famous creature/fx man but gets more than he bargained when one...
Movie pageThe Willows in Winter
as BadgerHailed as the "rightful heir" to "The Wind in the Willows", William Horwood's critically...
Movie page
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as SelfBAFTA award-winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews was given unprecedented access to the...
Movie page
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
as Sir GeorgeSquanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which...
Movie page
The Beast Must Die
as Jan JarmokowskiWealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in...
Movie page
Turtle Diary
as George FairbairnTwo separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in...
Movie page
Othello
as uncreditedGeneral Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new...
Movie page
Othello
as Senators-Soldiers-CypriotsGeneral Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new...
Movie pageCordelia
as Mr. MosesCordelia ia a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she...
Movie page
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
as SelfDocumentary created by Matthew Gray Gubler during, and about, his time on the set of The Life...
Movie page
The Catholics
as Brother KevinSet in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the...
Movie page
The Actors
as BarrellerDuring the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony...
Movie page
Churchill's Secret
as Winston ChurchillBritish Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept...
Movie page
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as HirstTo celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National...
Movie page
Common
as JudgeMulti-award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern's brand new film based on the UK's controversial joint...
Movie page
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
as SelfA behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow.
Movie page
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
as AlexHarry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai...
Movie page
The Gambler
as Fyodor DostoyevskyUnder pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest...
Movie page
Stories of Lost Souls
as LarrySeven (or six - depending on the version) short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to...
Movie page
The Innocent Sleep
as Det. Insp. MathesonInspired by the 1982 Roberto Calvi Affair in which an Italian banker was found hanging from a...
Movie page
Bullet to Beijing
as AlexeiWhen long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's...
Movie page
Muse of Fire
as SelfFunny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about...
Movie page
Lucan
as John BurkeDrama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being...
Movie page
Missing Link
as Narrator (voice)A million years ago in Africa: the last of the ape-humans is on flight from the humans, who...
Movie page
Mad to Be Normal
as Sydney KotokThe story of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East...
Movie page
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first...
Movie page
Paris by Night
as Gerald PaigeClara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on...
Movie page
Nothing Personal
as LeonardA raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975...
Movie page
Absurd Person Singular
as GeoffreyA movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas...
Movie page
Two Deaths
as Daniel PavenicA tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
Movie page
London: The Modern Babylon
as Self (voice)London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to...
Movie page
The Heat of the Day
as HarrisonIn World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence...
Movie page
The Alps - Climb of Your Life
as Narrator (voice)In 1966, John Harlin II died while attempting Europe's most difficult climb, the North Face of...
Movie page
The Other Woman
as RobinA lesbian artist creates a love triangle when she moves in with a closeted teenage girl and the...
Movie page
On Angel Wings
as GrandfatherOne cold Christmas night, an old shepherd recounts the magical story of how he came to be the...
Movie page
Ghosts
as Pastor MandersThe publication of Ghosts in 1881 caused an uproar and almost ruined Ibsen. It was banned across...
Movie page
The Last September
as Sir Richard NaylorIn 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are...
Movie page
Endgame
as HammHamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his...
Movie page
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
as SelfA documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film...
Movie page
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as TheseusMistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic...
Movie page
Citizen Lane
as Lord ArdilaunCitizen Lane is an innovative mix of documentary and drama that delivers a vivid and compelling...
Movie page
Dead on Time
as Maurice SilvermanIt's the last fifteen minutes of 1999 and Steve Armitage plans to leave his mark by becoming the...
Movie page
Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love
as SelfA portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments...
Movie page
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
as PiersTV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Friends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends,...
Movie page
Romeo and Juliet
as GregoryBBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.
Movie page
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
as uncreditedAs in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality...
Movie page
Cows
as MaxGeraldine, a psychiatric social worker, has an accident whilst in the country. The inhabitants...
Movie page
Mountain Language
as SergeantHarold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is...
Movie page
Top Gear: Back in the Fast Lane
as SelfA special containing all the best bits from the brand new first and second series of the...
Movie page
One of These Nights I'm Gonna Get an Early Day
as KennyWhen Mal Leyton's modern jazz quintet sets out to play an unlikely gig at a college concert, the...
Movie page
French Without Tears
as Lt Cmdr RogersThe romantic and comic adventures of a group of Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the...
Movie page
Bold Face: Condensed
as John' Waiting for pages half my life ' - but this time the printer is drunk and the editor has a...
Movie page
Little Wolf's Book of Badness
as Uncle Bigbad (voice)He washes his paws, brushes his teeth and goes to bed early. He is packed off to Uncle Bigbad's...
Movie page
Doctor Who
as KazranThe Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...
TV Show page
Minder
as Tommy HamburyThis comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...
TV Show page
Top Gear
as SelfThis fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary,...
TV Show page
Have I Got News for You
as SelfHilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories...
TV Show page
Tales of the Unexpected
as AndrewA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
TV Show page
GMTV
as SelfGMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee,...
TV Show page
Great Performances
as SelfThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
TV Show page
Bergerac
as Jarvis McLeodBergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...
TV Show page
Play for Today
as PiersPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
TV Show page
Play for Today
as MaxPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
TV Show page
Play for Today
as RobinPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
TV Show page
Richard & Judy
as SelfRichard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and...
TV Show page
Room 101
as SelfFast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities...
TV Show page
Fortitude
as Henry TysonFortitude is a place like nowhere else. Although surrounded by the savage beauty of the Arctic...
TV Show page
BBC Play of the Month
as Lt Cmdr RogersPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
TV Show page
BBC Play of the Month
as TrigorinPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
TV Show page
BBC Play of the Month
as TheseusPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
TV Show page
BBC Play of the Month
as GregoryPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
TV Show page
The Hollow Crown
as MortimerA series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
TV Show page
The Oscars
as Self (archive footage)An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
TV Show page
Softly, Softly
as uncreditedSoftly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1...
TV Show page
Public Eye
as uncreditedPublic Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC...
TV Show page
Emma
as Mr. WoodhouseNothing delights Emma more than meddling in the love lives of others. But when she takes protege...
TV Show page
Performance
as Archie RiceAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
TV Show page
Cranford
as Thomas HolbrookA rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change...
TV Show page
Angels in America
as Prior Walter Ancestor #1Angels in America is a 2003 American HBO miniseries directed by Mike Nichols and based on the...
TV Show page
Maigret
as Chief Inspector MaigretBased on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the...
TV Show page
Little Women
as Mr. LaurenceSet against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the story follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and...
TV Show page
Luck
as MichaelA drama set in the world of horse racing focusing on lives of owners, jockeys, trainers and...
TV Show page
Wives and Daughters
as Squire HamleyWives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters:...
TV Show page
The Singing Detective
as Philip MarlowTormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective...
TV Show page
Softly Softly: Task Force
as CranleySoftly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976....
TV Show page
The Dame Edna Experience
as SelfThe Dame Edna Experience is a British television comedy talk-show hosted by Dame Edna Everage....
TV Show page
The Casual Vacancy
as Howard MollisonThe citizens of the small British town of Pagford fight for the spot on the parish council after...
TV Show page
Longitude
as John HarrisonThe fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock...
TV Show page
The Frame
as Professor Albus DumbledoreA journey through the world of classic and contemporary cinema.
TV Show page
Restless
as Baron Mansfield / Lucas RomerA young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during...
TV Show page
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
as The StorytellerA storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and...
TV Show page
Fearless
as Sir Alistair McKinnonEmma Banville, a human rights lawyer known for defending lost causes, sets out to prove the...
TV Show page
Quirke
as Judge Garret GriffinQuirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes...
TV Show page
Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
as NarratorKröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire is a British-American comedic sword and sorcery...
TV Show page
Lucan
as John BurkeBelgravia, London, November 7th, 1974. Sandra Rivett, nanny of the aristocratic Lucan family, is...
TV Show page
Arthur of the Britons
as RolandThis series strips away the elaborate medieval view of Camelot, and presents Arthur as the chief...
TV Show page
The Lost Prince
as King Edward VIIThe life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at...
TV Show page
The Jim Henson Hour
as Ultragorgon (voice)The Jim Henson Hour was developed as a showcase for the Jim Henson Company's various puppet...
TV Show page
Oscar
as Oscar WildeIn the summer of 1891, Oscar Wilde first met Lord Alfred Douglas — an encounter that will...
TV Show page
Perfect Strangers
as RaymondA darkly comic tale of a young man who comes face to face with his huge family - a variety of...
TV Show page
The Other One
as Brian BryantTwo passengers meet in reception at Gatwick airport. Although unknown to each other, they find...
TV Show page
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
as Elderly PhilosopherThe Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells is a 2016 horror-fantasy television miniseries, based on...
TV Show page
Faith
as Peter John MoretonMichael Gambon stars in this high-tension thriller of political corruption and international...
TV Show page
Samson and Delilah
as Re HamunMara and Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living under the harsh and unjust...
TV Show page