Died at 78
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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).
A fan casting of a Tim Burton-directed Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, and potentially more sequels based on YouTube's FanScription of what the Joel Schumacher-directed Batman movies would've been like if Burton was in the director's chair with Michael Keaton returning as the Boy Billionaire by day and the World's Greatest Detective by night along with the return of Michael Gough as Alfred, Pat Hingle as Commissioner Gordon, Michelle Pfeiffer as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, and Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent/Two-Face.
