🎬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).

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Showing Up (2014)	Self	-	-
2	About Time (2013)	Lawyer in Play (uncredited)		8
3	Private Peaceful (2012)	The Colonel		7
4	Hugo (2011) Oscars 2012	Monsieur Frick		7.2
5	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)	King George		6.8
6	Jackboots on Whitehall (2010)	Hermann Goering (voice)	-	-
7	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) Top 100 by FilmGator	Vernon Dursley		8
8	National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art (2010)	Fitz / W. H. Auden	-	-
9	Ballet Shoes (2008)	Great Uncle Matthew		6.3
10	A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008)	Santa Claus		5.5
11	Bedtime Stories (2008)	Barry Nottingham		6.2
12	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	Vernon Dursley		7.7
13	The History Boys (2006)	Hector		6.4
14	Venus (2006)	Donald		5
15	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)	Jeltz (voice)		7.4
16	Stage Beauty (2004)	Sir Charles Sedley		8
17	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) Oscars 2005	Vernon Dursley		8
18	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)	Vernon Dursley		7.7
19	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) Oscars 2002	Vernon Dursley		7.8
20	Vatel (2000) Oscars 2001	Dr. Bourdelot		7
21	Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend (2000)	Self	-	-
22	Sleepy Hollow (1999) Oscars 2000	Bürgermeister Phillipse		7.3
23	Guarding Tess (1994)	Frederick		7
24	Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)	Maurice Horton	-	-
25	The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)	Dr. Meinheimer / Earl Hacker		7.4
26	King Ralph (1991)	Duncan Phipps		5
27	Withnail & I (1987)	Monty		6.7
28	Shanghai Surprise (1986)	Willie Tuttle		5
29	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)	Captain Billings		7.2
30	A Private Function (1984)	Allardyce		8
31	Gorky Park (1983)	Anton		6.5
32	Gandhi (1982)	Collins		7.8
33	Britannia Hospital (1982)	Cheerful Bernie		4
34	Chariots of Fire (1981)	Head Porter - Caius College		6.5
35	The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)	Sir Tom	-	-
36	Ragtime (1981)	Delmas' Assistant No. 1	-	-
37	Breaking Glass (1980)	Studio Engineer	-	-
38	Superman II (1980)	Terrorist		7