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Harry Potter Star Richard Griffiths Passes Away

Veteran British actor Richard Griffiths, who appeared in all eight of the Harry Potter films as […]
Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley in HARRY POTTER

Veteran British actor Richard Griffiths, who appeared in all eight of the Harry Potter films as Harry’s Uncle Vernon Dursley, has passed away.The BBC announced today that the Tony Award-winning Griffiths died due to complications during heart surgery, aged 65.As a longtime veteran of stage and screen, Griffiths had appeared in a handful of films of interest to our audience, including Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Martin Scorsese’s Hugo.