RICHARD GRIFFITHS
Richard Griffiths plays Harry's bullying Muggle Uncle Vernon, married to Petunia and the father of Dudley.
Richard Griffiths is one of the UK's most well known and loved actors, a regular face on television and in film. He has featured in a number of films over the last 20 years and is perhaps best remembered in Withnail & I and most recently in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow.
Other major film credits include; Chariots of Fire; The French Lieutenant's Woman; Ghandi; Greystoke; Gorky Park; A Private Function; Shanghai Surprise; King Ralph; Blame it on the Bellboy; Naked Gun 2; Funny Bones; Superman II and in Don Boyd's Goldeneye.
In the UK, Griffiths is a much loved character actor most famed for his BBC television series Pie in the Sky and Hope & Glory (having just completed the second series). His other main television performances in the BBC's Gormenghast; Inspector Morse; In the Red; Ted and Ralph; Amensty; Bird of Prey; The Cleopatras; Merry Wives of Windsor; The Marksman; Mr Wakefield's Crusade; LWT's Nobody's Perfect and Whoops Apocolypse; Thames TV's Ffizz; Central's A Kind of Living and Granada's El Cid.
Griffiths is also an established theatre actor having performed with the RSC in The White Guard; Once in a Lifetime; Henry VIII; Volpone and Red Star. Other major stage productions include: Heartbreak House; Galileo and Rules of the Game all at the Almeida Theatre: Art; Katherine Howard; The Man Who Came to Dinner and Verdi's Messiah. |
