
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 Pie in the Sky (1994–1997). Earlier in his career, he had supporting roles in such critically acclaimed films as Chariots of Fire (1981), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Gandhi (1982), and The Naked Gun 2+1⁄2: The Smell of Fear (1991). In his later career he appeared in Sleepy Hollow (1999), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and in Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011).

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · as Vernon Dursley

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · as Vernon Dursley

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · as Vernon Dursley

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · as Vernon Dursley

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · as Vernon Dursley

About Time
2013 · as Lawyer in Play (uncredited)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011 · as King George

Hugo
2011 · as Monsieur Frick

Sleepy Hollow
1999 · as Bürgermeister Phillipse

Superman II
1980 · as Terrorist

Bedtime Stories
2008 · as Barry Nottingham

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · as Jeltz (voice)

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · as Dr. Meinheimer / Earl Hacker

Chariots of Fire
1981 · as Head Porter - Caius College

Withnail & I
1987 · as Monty

Ballet Shoes
2008 · as Great Uncle Matthew

Gandhi
1982 · as Collins

Funny Bones
1995 · as Jim Minty