Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths' recent West End theatre credits include playing Yvan in the play Art.

Richard Griffiths is one of the UK's most well known and loved actors, a regular face on television and in film. He has featured in a number of films over the last 20 years and is perhaps best remembered in Withnail and I and most recently in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow.

Other major film credits include: Chariots of Fire, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Ghandi, Greystoke, Gorky Park, A Private Function, Shanghai Surprise, King Ralph, Blame it on The Bellboy, Naked Gun 2, Funny Bones, Superman II and in Don Boyd's Goldeneye.

In the UK, Griffiths is a much loved character most famed for his BBC television series Pie in the Sky and Hope and Glory (having just completed the second series). His other main television performances in the BBC's Gomenghast, Inspector Morse, In the Red, Ted and Ralph, Amnesty, Bird of Prey, The Cleopatras, Merry Wives of Windsor, The Marksman, Mr Wakefield's Crusade, LWT's Nobody's Perfect and Whoops Apocalypse, Thames TV's Ffizz, Central's A Kind of Living and Granada's El Cid.

Griffiths is also an established theatre actor having performed with the RSC in The White Guard, Once in a Lifetime, Henry VII, Volpone and Red Star. Other major stage productions include: Heartbreak House, Galileo and Rules of the Game all at the Almeida Theatre, Art, Katherine Howard and The Man who Came to Dinner.

Richard Griffiths also plays Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films for Warner Bros.