Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths

Actor (1947 - 2013)
17
Movies
73.5%
Avg ThumbScore
Adventure
Top Genre

Audiences rate Richard Griffiths’s films higher than 67% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

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i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Richard Griffiths (73.5%) is the average audience approval rating across 17 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Richard's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

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).

Born 1947-07-31 in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK. Died 2013-03-28.

On ThumbScore, Richard Griffiths appears in 17 films with an average audience score of 73.5%, most frequently in the Adventure genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Richard Griffiths movie, ranked by audience score

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
👍 91%
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
👍 86%
Withnail & I
Withnail & I
1987
👍 85%
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
👍 85%
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991
👍 84%
Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow
1999
👍 81%
Bedtime Stories
Bedtime Stories
2008
👍 72%
Gorky Park
Gorky Park
1983
👍 70%
Stage Beauty
Stage Beauty
2004
👍 70%
Guarding Tess
Guarding Tess
1994
👍 69%
Vatel
Vatel
2000
👍 68%
Venus
Venus
2006
👍 68%
The History Boys
The History Boys
2006
👍 67%
King Ralph
King Ralph
1991
👍 66%
Shanghai Surprise
Shanghai Surprise
1986
👍 65%
Ballet Shoes
Ballet Shoes
2008
👍 64%
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
👍 58%