Richard Griffiths "Harry Potter's Uncle" Actor Death
Richard Griffiths actor who is very well known for his role as Harry Potter's Uncle and the cult film 'Withnail & I' has died at the age of 65 years.It is said by his agent Simon Beresford on Friday. This Star of stage and screen with fat-bodied is one of the best British character actors who is loved. He died on Thursday from complications after heart surgery.
Simon Beresford reveals, Griffiths will forever be remembered as Uncle Monty by fans of cult classic 'Withnail & I', although he won the biggest fans as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films.
Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the boy wizard Potter in the blockbuster series, led the tribute to a man who said he had offered her 'encouragement, guidance, and humor'. Both men were working in the film Harry Potter and then play 'Equus'.
"Every room he walks done twice, making it twice as funny and smart just by his presence. I am proud to say, that I know," Radcliffe said in a statement.
Richard Griffiths was born on July 31, 1947 in Yorkshire in northern England, the son of a steelworker. Her parents were both deaf, so he had to learn sign language at an early age.
He left school at 15, but then returned to education to study drama, before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company. The titles of the early films including 'Chariots of Fire', 'The French Lietenant's Woman', and 'Gandhi', before she landed the lead role in the 1987 comedy 'Withnail & I'.
Griffiths played a gay predator Withnail's uncle, an alcoholic actor played by Richard E. Grant, in the film which is now regarded as a classic British films. Grant said in a message on Twitter: "Dear 'Uncle Monty' Richard Griffiths died last night. Chin Chin dear friend."
Nicholas Hytner, director of the London National Theatre who directed Griffiths in one of the biggest hits the stage, 'The History Boys', Griffiths said that if the figure is always there in every heart.
Richard Griffiths himself won the Tony and Olivier award for his role as an inspirational teacher in 'The History Boys', and was nominated for a BAFTA in the category of best actor film version.
"His performance in 'The History Boys' is quite remarkable, a masterpiece of wit, delicacy delinquency, and sadness, often occur together," said Hytner.
He also has a successful television career, starring as a crime-solving chef in the TV series' Pie In The Sky '' in the 1990s, and he was awarded the OBE for drama in 2007.On the last year Richard Griffiths starred with Danny DeVito in 'The Sunshine Boys' in London and is scheduled to be staged in Los Angeles in September. In a statement, Beresford said that if his client brighten the day and enrich the lives of anyone.
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