On September 28, in Essex, East Anglia, the outstanding British actor of Irish origin, multiple laureate Laurence Olivier Theater Award and BAFTA Television Awards, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Sir Michael Gambon.
The sad news was reported by The Guardian with reference to the actor’s widow. Cause of death legends British theatre, film and television became pneumonia. It is also known that in recent years the actor suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
Michael John Gambon was born in Dublin on October 19, 1940. Five years after his birth, the family moved to London. He made his professional stage debut in 1962 at the Gate Theater in his native Dublin.
Over a career spanning more than half a century, the actor with no theatrical training has shone on the stages of the Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Old Vic Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Liverpool Empire Theatre, Aldwych Theatre, Greenwich Theatre, Olivier Theatre, Wyndham Theatre, and Globe Theatre. , “Vaudeville”, “Savoy”, creating about 70 characters, including Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Duke of Buckingham in “Richard III”, Falstaff in “Henry IV”, Benedict in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”, Galileo in “The Lives of Galileo” by Brecht, Voinitsky in “Uncle Vanya” by Chekhov.
With Jonathan Pryce and Greta Scacchi in the play “Uncle Vanya”. Vaudeville Theatre, London, 1988
Michael Gambon made his film debut in 1965 and for twenty years acted either in TV series or in episodic roles, while being the brightest star of the theater stage.
In 1992, the 52-year-old actor brilliantly played Commissioner Maigret in the British series Maigret based on the works of Georges Simenon, and in 2004 he replaced the late Richard Harris on the set of the film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Michael Gambon played Professor Albus Dumbledore and his ghost in all subsequent parts of the Potter series: “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”.
The role of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Charles Sturridge’s television biographical drama “Churchill’s Secret” was also significant for Gambon.
Commissioner Maigret in the film “Maigret”, 1992
Mary’s father in the film Mary Riley, 1996
Balthus Van Tassel in the film Sleepy Hollow, 1999
Denton Baxter in the movie Open Space, 2003
In total, the filmography of the legend of the British stage and screen includes about 150 titles of films and television series, including “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover” by Peter Greenaway, “Toys” by Barry Levinson, “Mary Riley” by Stephen Frears, “The Wings of the Dove” by Ian Softley , “Sleepy Hollow” by Tim Burton, “Charlotte Gray” by Gillian Armstrong, “Warpath” by John Frankenheimer, “Open Space” by Kevin Costner, “Amazing Ease” by Michael Apted, “The King’s Speech!” Tom Hooper.”
In 2019, after starring in Rupert Goold’s film “Julie,” 78-year-old Michael Gambon officially retired from acting.
Albus Dumbledore in the film “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, 2005
Lord Charles Fox in the film “Amazing Lightness”, 2006
George V in The King’s Speech, 2010
Winston Churchill in the film “Churchill’s Secret”, 2016
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