Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon (1940-2023) was an Irish-born acclaimed stage actor who was later best known to movie audiences as Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies (taking over from the third film onward).
He played the role of the Storyteller on The StoryTeller: Greek Myths, and before that, voiced the Ultragorgon in The Jim Henson Hour episode "Monster Maker." Films for which Jim Henson's Creature Shop supplied brief effects include Mary Reilly, Samson and Delilah, and Gosford Park (as Sir William McCordle).
Gambon was active on the British stage in the 1960s and 70s, from Shakespeare to several collaborations with Harold Pinter. He took the title role in a 1980 production of Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo and starred in the 1987 staging of The View from the Bridge. He occasionally acted on screen in this period (usually guest parts, anthology episodes, and two B horror movies) and was third billed in the 1985 film Turtle Diaries (scripted by Pinter and starring Glenda Jackson). He was more firmly established with star turns in the 1986 miniseries The Singing Detective (with Bill Paterson) and the 1989 film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (with Helen Mirren).
In American movies, he was often typecast as villains, including in Mobsters (with F. Murray Abraham), Toys (with Robin Williams), Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (with Mandy Patinkin), and Open Range (with Annette Bening). He had more sympathetic roles in Sleepy Hollow, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and the remake of The Omen (as archeologist Bugenhagen). Later TV credits include a guest role on a Christmas Doctor Who episode and adaptations of Emma and Little Women.
The actor was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998.
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