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Richard Thomas Griffiths, OBE was an English actor of film, television, and stage. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, all for his role in The History Boys. For the 2006 film adaptation, Griffiths was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

He is also known for his portrayal of Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter film series, Uncle Monty in Withnail and I , Dr. Albert Meinheimer in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear , Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky , Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and King George II in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides . Earlier in his career, he had a prominent supporting role as British journalist Collins in Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning film Gandhi .

✵ 31. July 1947 – 28. March 2013
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“That's not girth. That's a para-umbilical hernia.”

Of his protruding stomach.
Observer interview (2005)

“I hate being the subject of photographs.”

Observer interview (2005)

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