Richard Griffiths
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).
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his...
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Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start...
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Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of...
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Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the...
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Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as King GeorgeCaptain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love --...
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About Time
as Lawyer in Play (uncredited)The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men...
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Sleepy Hollow
as Bürgermeister PhillipseSkeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New...
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
as Dr. Meinheimer / Earl HackerBumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend...
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Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton, who have the same powers on Earth as Superman,...
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Bedtime Stories
as Barry NottinghamSkeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and...
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Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in...
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Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is...
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Chariots of Fire
as Head Porter - Caius CollegeIn the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young...
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Captain BillingsA shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The...
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Gandhi
as CollinsIn the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes...
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King Ralph
as Duncan PhippsAs the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must...
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Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend,...
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Ragtime
as Delmas' Assistant No. 1A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among...
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Ballet Shoes
as Great Uncle MatthewAn unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and...
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Guarding Tess
as FrederickDoug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess...
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Stage Beauty
as Sir Charles SedleyHumble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Sir TomIn this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about...
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A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
as Santa ClausWhen Gonzo forgets to mail three letters to Santa, he convinces Kermit and the gang to help him...
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Venus
as DonaldMaurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest...
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Gorky Park
as AntonPolice Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but...
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Vatel
as Dr. BourdelotIn 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of...
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Private Peaceful
as The ColonelSet in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same...
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Britannia Hospital
as Cheerful BernieBritannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a...
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The History Boys
as HectorThe story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in...
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Shanghai Surprise
as Willie TuttleGlendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a...
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Goldeneye
as Second AdmiralBritish writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent...
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A Private Function
as AllardyceIn the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and...
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A Breed of Heroes
as Brian BeaselyIn 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks...
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Blame It on the Bellboy
as Maurice HortonMike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a...
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Jackboots on Whitehall
as Hermann Goering (voice)A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
as Mr. Alderman Ptolomy Tortoise/Mr. Jackson/Sir Isaac NewtonClassic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names...
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Showing Up
as SelfAn unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable...
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Funny Bones
as Jim MintyTommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he...
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Ted & Ralph
as Landowner at PartyOne-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'....
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Breaking Glass
as Studio EngineerBreaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out...
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Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
as SelfA behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow.
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Casanova
as CardinalThe life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but...
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The Comedy of Errors
as OfficerThe Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Sir John FalstaffWhen Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a...
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The Movie Life of George
as SelfWhen EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade...
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The Brides in the Bath
as Sir Edward Marshall-HallDramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder...
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Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
as Willie WhitelawA satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and...
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
as Sam BroadbentBased on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson...
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Twelve Off the Belt
as Bedworth HoggGrand Challenge pie-eating contest : ' Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in...
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Afternoon Off
as Factory BossLee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little...
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Opa!
as TierrneyA modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
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Well Thank You, Thursday
as Window CleanerMiss Shepherd of the registry office is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as...
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Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
as PorterDarkly comic murder mystery adapted from Bernice Rubens 's Booker Prize-winning bestseller. ...
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National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
as Fitz / W. H. AudenNational Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with...
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Minder
as Derek FarrowThis comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...
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Inspector Morse
as Canon Humphrey AppletonInspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...
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Tony Awards
as Self - PresenterThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
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Tony Awards
as Self - WinnerThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
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Crown Court
as InterpreterCrown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...
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Bergerac
as Jean-PierreBergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...
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Pie in the Sky
as Henry CrabbePie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and...
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The Sweeney
as Ronnie HarriesJack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue...
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BBC Television Shakespeare
as uncreditedThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
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An Audience with...
as SelfAn Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend...
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Episodes
as Julian BullardA British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful...
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The Hollow Crown
as Duke of BurgundyA series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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Lovejoy
as Hans KoopmanThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...
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Bleak House
as Mr. Bayham BadgerThe generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and...
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Boon
as uncreditedBoon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David...
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Six Fifty-Five Special
as SelfSally James and guest presenters invite established stars and newcomers to contribute to a...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
as Mr. Jackson (voice)Nine animated stories based on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter.
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Gormenghast
as SwelterAt the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than...
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The Marksman
as BrownTwelve-year-old Gordon Weaver is killed on waste-ground in Liverpool. His grandfather, Doyle,...
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In the Red
as Geoffrey Crichton PotterA series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And...
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Hope and Glory
as Leo WheeldonHope and Glory is a BBC television drama about a comprehensive school struggling with financial,...
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TLC
as uncreditedTLC is a darkly surreal farce-like sitcom set in a fictional NHS hospital called South Middlesex...
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Countdown
as uncreditedThe clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility.
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Whoops Apocalypse
as uncreditedWhoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made...
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Village Hall
as Mr. RidealghVillage Hall is a drama anthology series made by Granada between 1974 and 1975. It is entirely...
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Bird of Prey
as uncreditedFrom its video game-inspired opening titles to its pervasive electronic music track, Bird of...
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Kind of Living
as uncreditedTrevor Beasley (Richard Griffiths), a schoolteacher, has his head stuck firmly in the past,...
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