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posted by wonder2wonderSTAFFMOD on July 31, 2017 at 6:59 PM
on his birthday, Richard Griffiths (Born: July 31, 1947; Died: Mar 29, 2013).
Richard Griffiths is known for his role as Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" movies.
Some other movies he appeared in are "Britannia Hospital (1982)", "The World Cup: A Captain's Tale (1982)", "Gandhi (1982)", "The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982)", "Gorky Park (1983)", "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)", "A Private Function (1984)", "Shanghai Surprise (1986)", "Casanova (1987)", "Withnail & I (1987)", "Goldeneye (1989)", "King Ralph (1991)", "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)", "Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)", "Guarding Tess (1994)" , "Funny Bones (1995)", "Sleepy Hollow (1999)", "Vatel (2000)", "Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (2002)", "The Brides in the Bath (2003)", "Stage Beauty (2004)", "Lost in Love (2005)", "Venus (2006)", "The History Boys (2006)", "Ballet Shoes (2007)", "A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008)", "Bedtime Stories (2008)", "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)", "Hugo (2011)" and "Private Peaceful (2012)".
He played Henry Crabbe on the BBC TV show "Pie in the Sky (1994-1997)".
Some other TV shows he appeared on are "Village Hall", "When the Boat Comes in", "The Expert", "Second City Firsts", "The Sweeney", "Prisoners of Conscience", "Whoops Apocalypse", "Bird of Prey", "The Cleopatras", "Bergerac", "Minder", "Boon", "The Marksman", "Ffizz", "A Kind of Living", "Perfect Scoundrels", "El C.I.D", "The Good Guys", "Mr. Wakefield's Crusade", "Inspector Morse", "Lovejoy", "Screen One", "In the Red", "The Vicar of Dibley", "Gormenghast", "Hope and Glory", "tlc", "Bleak House", "Episodes" and "The Hollow Crown".
Reply by rudely_murray
on July 31, 2017 at 9:13 PM
There was a time when he seemed to crop up in every film made in Britain. He was always rather hefty and looked somewhat older than he was so his sad death was not, alas, a great shock but he is surely missed. I'm glad that he had his great late life stage triumph with 'The History Boys' and the subsequent film (which wasn't as successful but did give him a plum role).