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Sir Michael John Gambon was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama.

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entertainment · Irish-English actor (1940–2023) · voice actor · stage actor · film actor · television actor · actor · also Michael Gambon, Sir Michael John Gambon, Gambon

Born 19 October 1940 · Died 27 September 2023 · Q203545

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I hear that the no-smoking crowd are now operating at the National. Surely that sort of mentality doesn't belong in a theatre, it isn't a place where you impose rules on people, it's a dirty radical place where an actor can work with a fag in his hand.
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2026· 1 entry

Aug 17, 2026Documented record82% confidence

“m talking about the 80s when Mike wasn”

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2024· 1 entry

2024Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

It was reported that Hart, his long-term girlfriend and mother of two of his sons, had been left nothing in the actor's will: almost all of his fortune was passed to Lady Gambon, his wife of 61 years

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2023· 12 entries

Oct 1, 2023Documented record69% confidence

collider: Michael Gambon’s Best Performance in 'Harry Potter' Is 'Half Blood Prince'

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Sep 29, 2023Documented record69% confidence

Yahoo: 'Harry Potter' Stars Share Heartfelt Tributes To Late Co-Star Michael Gambon

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Sep 29, 2023Documented record69% confidence

Decider: Daniel Radcliffe Pays Tribute To “Silly, Irreverent, And Hilarious” Michael Gambon Along With ‘Harry Potter’ Co-Stars

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Sep 28, 2023Documented record69% confidence

Los Angeles Times: ‘Harry Potter’ cast members pay tribute to Michael Gambon: ‘The world just became considerably less fun’

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Sep 28, 2023Documented record69% confidence

Uproxx: Daniel Radcliffe And ‘Harry Potter’ Stars Pay Tribute To Michael Gambon: He Was ‘Irreverent And Hilarious’

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Sep 28, 2023Documented record69% confidence

Yahoo: Actor Michael Gambon did more than play Dumbledore. Here’s a look at his career

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Sep 28, 2023Documented record69% confidence

Wall Street Journal: Michael Gambon of ‘Harry Potter’ Dies: A Life in Photos

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Sep 28, 2023Documented record69% confidence

Moviefone: ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Sir Michael Gambon Has Died at the Age of 82

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Sep 28, 2023Documented record69% confidence

collider: Before Dumbledore, Michael Gambon Played One of the Greatest Movie Villains

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Sep 27, 2023Documented record86% confidence

Died 2023-09-27.

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“Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?”

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“I hear that the no-smoking crowd are now operating at the National. Surely that sort of mentality doesn't belong in a theatre, it isn't a place where you impose rules on people, it's a dirty radical place where an actor can work with a fag in his hand.”

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2019· 1 entry

2019Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Appeared in the biographical film Judy, about Judy Garland, starring Renée Zellweger, Rufus Sewell, Finn Wittrock and Jessie Buckley

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2017· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2017Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Irish Film & Television Awards (2017).

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2017Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Received the Irish Film & Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

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2016· 1 entry

2016Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Gambon was the narrator for the Coen Brothers' Hollywood comedy Hail, Caesar

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2015· 1 entry

2015Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

And 2018, Gambon starred as Henry Tyson in the first and third series of Sky Atlantic's Fortitude

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2013· 1 entry

2013Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Gambon provided the voice for The Prophet, a character in the MMORPG video game The Elder Scrolls Online

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2012· 3 entries

Jun 15, 2012Documented record84% confidence

Awarded British Independent Film Award – The Richard Harris Award (2012).

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2012Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Played a role in Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut with Quartet, based on the same-titled play by Ronald Harwood and starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins

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2012Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Starred with Eileen Atkins in an adaptation of Beckett's radio play, All That Fall

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2011· 1 entry

2011Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

The film received 12 Academy Awards nominations, more than any other film in that year

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2010· 3 entries

Jun 15, 2010Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Evening Standard Theatre Awards (2010).

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2010Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Gambon took a supporting role in Tom Hooper's historical drama The King's Speech where he portrayed an ailing King George V

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Jan 1, 2010Documented record76% confidence

“have to play anyone really. I just stick on a beard and play me, so it”

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2009· 1 entry

2009Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Appeared in a television adaptation of Jane Austen's famously irrepressible Emma, a four-hour miniseries that premiered on BBC One in October 2009, co-starring Romola Garai

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2008· 1 entry

2008Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Gambon appeared in the role of Hirst in No Man's Land by Harold Pinter in the Gate Theatre, Dublin, opposite David Bradley as Spooner, in a production directed by Rupert Goold, which transferred to the London West End's

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2007· 2 entries

2007Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Gambon portrayed Lord Charles Fox in Michael Apted's historical drama Amazing Grace alongside Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Albert Finney and Rufus Sewell

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2007Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was Sam in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming for Radio 3

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2006· 3 entries

2006Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Gambon performed voiceover for a series of Guinness advertisements featuring penguins

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2006Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And set a time in the Chevrolet Lacetti of 1:50

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2006Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Performed as Joe in Beckett's Eh Joe, giving two performances a night at the Duke of York's Theatre in London

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2005· 1 entry

2005Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Finally achieved a lifelong ambition to play Falstaff, in Nicholas Hytner's National production of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, co-starring with Matthew Macfadyen as Prince Hal

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2004· 2 entries

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Gambon played the lead role (Hamm) in Samuel Beckett's post-apocalyptic play Endgame at the Albery Theatre, London

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2004Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Appeared in five films, including Wes Anderson's cult comedy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; the British gangster film Layer Cake; and theatrical drama Being Julia

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2003· 1 entry

2003Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Appeared with Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner, playing the principal villain in the Western film Open Range

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2002· 1 entry

2002Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Moved out of the home he shared with his wife, though they later reconciled

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2001· 1 entry

2001Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Played what he described as "'a physically repulsive" Davies in Patrick Marber's revival of Pinter's The Caretaker, but he found the rehearsal period an unhappy experience, and felt that he had let down the author

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2000· 1 entry

2000Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

When reviewing Nicholas Wright's Cressida: "Gambon's eccentricity on stage now begins to rival that of his great mentor Richardson"

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1998· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1998Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Knight Bachelor (1998).

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1998Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama

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1997· 1 entry

1997Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Gambon made his Broadway debut in David Hare's Skylight, earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination

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1995· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1995Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Volpone (1995).

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1995Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Gambon starred in David Hare's Skylight, with Lia Williams, which opened to rave reviews at the National Theatre

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1991· 1 entry

1991Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Starred as Tommy Hanbury in an episode of the ITV series Minder called "Look Who's Coming To Pinner"

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1990· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1990Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1990).

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Jun 15, 1990Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Laurence Olivier Awards for Man of the Moment (1990).

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1990Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Played Jerry in Harold Pinter's Betrayal for BBC Radio 3

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1989· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1989Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award for The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989).

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1989Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Gambon starred in the Peter Greenaway's crime drama The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, which also starred Helen Mirren, Tim Roth and Ciarán Hinds

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1987· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1987Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Laurence Olivier Awards for A View from the Bridge (1987).

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Jun 15, 1987Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Evening Standard Theatre Awards for A View from the Bridge (1987).

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1986· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1986Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Laurence Olivier Awards for A Chorus of Disapproval (1986).

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1985· 1 entry

1985Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Appeared in the British drama film Turtle Diary directed by John Irvin with a screenplay adapted by Harold Pinter

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1980· 1 entry

1980Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

The first Brecht play to become a popular success

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1976· 1 entry

1976Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Took the part of Lieutenant Commander Rogers in a filmed version of the play French Without Tears by Terence Rattigan, for a TV episode of the series BBC Play of the Month, directed by John Gorrie, with Nicola Pagett,

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1974· 1 entry

1974Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Eric Thompson cast him as the melancholy vet in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests at Greenwich

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1967· 2 entries

1967Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Left the National Theatre for the Birmingham Repertory Company, which was to give him his first crack at the title roles in Othello (his favourite), Macbeth and Coriolanus

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1967Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Made his television debut in the BBC television adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing as Watchman No

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1962· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1962Documented record76% confidence

“s Gate Theatre, accompanied by a CV describing a rich and wholly imaginary theatre career: he was taken on. Gambon made his professional stage debut in the Gate Theatre”

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1940· 1 entry

Oct 19, 1940Documented record86% confidence

Born 1940-10-19.

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