
Acting
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 P…

Showing Up
as Self

About Time
as Lawyer in Play (uncredited)

Private Peaceful
as The Colonel

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as King George

Hugo
as Monsieur Frick

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Vernon Dursley

Jackboots on Whitehall
as Hermann Goering (voice)

National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
as Fitz / W. H. Auden

Bedtime Stories
as Barry Nottingham

Ballet Shoes
as Great Uncle Matthew

The Hollow Crown
as Duke of Burgundy · 1 ep.

Episodes
as Julian Bullard · 1 ep.

Bleak House
as Mr. Bayham Badger · 2 ep.

tlc
as Mr Benedict Ron · 6 ep.

Gormenghast
as Swelter · 2 ep.

Hope and Glory
as Leo Wheeldon · 2 ep.

In the Red
as Geoffrey Crichton Potter · 3 ep.

Pie in the Sky
as Henry Crabbe · 40 ep.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
as Mr. Jackson (voice) · 1 ep.
Pebble Mill
as Self · 1 ep.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007