Richard Griffiths

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

British character actor Richard Griffiths came from radio and the classical stage where he built up an early reputation as a Shakespearean clown, with larger-than-life portrayals of Henry VIII, Falstaff in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with the Royal Shakespeare Company being just a few of his standout credits. He was brought up in a council flat in less than prosperous conditions, the son of deaf and volatile parents in a dysfunctional family setting. He had to learn sign language at an early age. His world did not include television and he had to explain to his father what music sounded like. Despite these obstacles, Griffiths developed a talent for dialects which later allowed him to shine in a number of ethnic portrayals. In films from 1975 on both sides of the Atlantic, his better roles have been in both contemporary and period pieces, such a Gorky Park (1983), Withnail & I (1987), King Ralph (1991), Guarding Tess (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and recently the 'Harry Potter' series as Uncle Vernon Dursley. In a 2007 interview Griffiths declared "I like playing Vernon Dursley in Harry Potter because that gives me a licence to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public." In fact, unlike those jovial characters he so often portrayed on screen, Griffiths did not tolerate fools gladly. On occasion, he would get stroppy with members of an audience, notably those failing to switch off their mobile phones during a performance (then again, who could blame him ?). He was also highly thought of as a raconteur and wit. The ever-versatile, often bespectacled and bearded Griffiths did his best work for the small screen, particularly excelling as the inquisitive and resourceful civil servant Henry Jay in Bird of Prey (1982) and as the lovable 'cooking policeman' Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky (1994), a role specially created for him. As comic relief he made many a hilarious guest appearance, in, among other popular series, The Vicar of Dibley (1994) (as the Bishop of Mulberry) and as Dr. Bayham Badger in the superb BBC adaption of Bleak House (2005). He could also play evil and sinister, none more so than Swelter in Gormenghast (2000), a character Griffiths described being at once "laughably comic" and "a monster like Idi Amin". One of Britain's best-loved character actors, Griffiths received an OBE in 2008. He died on March 28 2013 as a result of complications from heart surgery. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh & I.S.Mowis

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Richard Griffiths’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Richard Griffiths on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1975 to 2012. See the full graphs of the number of Richard Griffiths movies released per year from 1987 till 2012.

Top Genres

Richard Griffiths works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 34% of Richard Griffiths movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Richard Griffiths worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Richard Griffiths has worked on is 7.2.

7.2 / 10

Richard Griffiths's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard.

7.9/10142 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Comedy,Crime,Drama
Pie in the Sky (1994)

DI Crabbe retires from the police force after being shot and sets up his own restaurant. However, his ex-boss, Chief Constable Fisher constantly calls Crabbe back on duty.

7.6/1050 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

In 1969, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.

7.6/10107 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
The History Boys (2006)

An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

6.8/10109 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

In post-World War II Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market.

6.5/1092 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.

6.2/10102 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Several strangers converge on a hotel in Venice, Italy, where a bellboy's bad English sets them up to clash against each other in a hilarious case of mistaken identity.

5.5/1078 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Adventure,Comedy,Crime
Shanghai Surprise (1986)

Shanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine. Adventure and romance follows.

3.2/1097 min

Available in 5 platform(s).