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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.0662 |
| Birthday | 1947-07-31 |
| Place of Birth | Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Річард Гріффітс, |
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
7.702/23480
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger aw...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
7.9/29456
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8.008/23056
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
7.672/20714
Returning for his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with n...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2008
Bedtime Stories
6.157/2962
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fa...
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Bedtime Stories
2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
6.566/14888
When Jack crosses paths with a woman from his past, he's not sure if it's love...or if she's a ruthless con artist using him to find the fabled Founta...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
1999
Sleepy Hollow
7.2/7323
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitat...
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Sleepy Hollow
1991
King Ralph
5.358/317
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.
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King Ralph
2008
Ballet Shoes
6.356/271
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But...
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Ballet Shoes
1977
Twelve Off the Belt
0/0
Grand Challenge pie-eating contest : ' Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in half-an-hour. Ties decided on a raw cabbage '. The Bedworth Hog...
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Twelve Off the Belt
2000
Vatel
6.118/178
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants...
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Vatel
2006
The History Boys
6.631/214
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambrid...
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The History Boys
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
7.734/20289
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
1982
Britannia Hospital
6.313/72
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...
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Britannia Hospital
2004
Stage Beauty
6.646/145
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because th...
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Stage Beauty
2008
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
5.942/73
When Gonzo forgets to mail three letters to Santa, he convinces Kermit and the gang to help him deliver the notes to the North Pole. Along the way, th...
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A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
1992
Blame It on the Bellboy
5.347/59
Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a lech...
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Blame It on the Bellboy
1987
Withnail & I
7.256/620
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid...
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Withnail & I
2006
Venus
6.633/158
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and p...
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Venus
1995
Funny Bones
6.559/51
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—start...
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Funny Bones
2011
Hugo
7.174/7635
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the statio...
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Hugo
1984
A Private Function
6.454/65
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Ch...
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A Private Function
1986
Shanghai Surprise
4.267/101
Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for h...
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Shanghai Surprise
2005
Opa!
6/12
A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
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Opa!
1989
Goldeneye
5.83/47
British writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent James Bond.
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Goldeneye
2012
Private Peaceful
6.6/45
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feud...
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Private Peaceful
1982
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
7.5/2
The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.
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The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
1982
A Light Snack
5.8/6
A window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory.
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A Light Snack
2014
Showing Up
9.2/3
An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe...
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Showing Up
2010
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
8/1
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings, and Frances de la Tou...
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National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
1983
Gorky Park
6.325/335
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his s...
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Gorky Park
1994
Guarding Tess
6.003/348
Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close p...
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Guarding Tess
1978
The Comedy of Errors
8.6/5
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together...
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The Comedy of Errors
1998
Ted & Ralph
7/6
One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'. Ralph Mayhew (Charlie Higson) lives alone in a faded s...
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Ted & Ralph
1987
Casanova
4.125/12
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and...
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Casanova
1982
Gandhi
7.562/2494
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...
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Gandhi
1977
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
0/0
A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert.The record company ask the question is he worth more dead than alive?
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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1974
Norma
0/0
Norma is a woman who appears to be leading a very complicated emotional life; she's involved with no less than four men. Michael is the friend she tur...
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Norma
1979
Afternoon Off
0/0
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in...
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Afternoon Off
1992
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
5.667/3
Darkly comic murder mystery adapted from Bernice Rubens 's Booker Prize-winning bestseller. Luke Wakefield is not so much a knight in shining armour...
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Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
2003
The Brides in the Bath
5.688/8
Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by...
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The Brides in the Bath
1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
6.37/500
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their t...
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1981
Ragtime
7.011/185
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...
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Ragtime
1991
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
6.811/2738
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of busin...
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6.684/4216
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a res...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1980
Superman II
6.752/2505
Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop t...
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Superman II
1989
The Movie Life of George
0/0
When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures so that he could see the film. This is the story o...
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The Movie Life of George
1976
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
8/2
Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this...
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
2002
Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
4.714/7
A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.
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Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
2010
Jackboots on Whitehall
4.9/30
A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.
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Jackboots on Whitehall
1980
Breaking Glass
6.9/35
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manag...
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Breaking Glass
1981
Chariots of Fire
6.772/1032
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a d...
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Chariots of Fire
1994
A Breed of Heroes
3.667/3
In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in se...
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A Breed of Heroes
1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman
6.5/240
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
1976
Well Thank You, Thursday
0/0
Miss Shepherd of the registry office is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.
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Well Thank You, Thursday
2013
About Time
7.905/9216
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through t...
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About Time
1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor
8/3
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. Wh...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
2000
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
7.125/36
A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow.
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Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2006
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
8.5/7
Classic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter." So begins...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
2005
Princes in the Tower
9/1
The mystery surrounding the disappearance 12 year-old King Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, has been the cause of speculation and fasci...
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Princes in the Tower
1998
The Animal Train
7/1
Animation short about a little boy that sets off on a round-the-world night train to dreamland with only his toy dog for company. But soon all sorts o...
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The Animal Train
1996
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse
0/0
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 8. The six fluffy babies of Benjamin Bunny are in great danger when Mr. McGregor put them in a sack,...
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