Irish actor Michael Gambon, known for his character as Dumbledore in the “Harry Potter” saga, died this Thursday at the age of 82 due to pneumonia.
The news of the death was confirmed by the family. “Beloved husband and father, Michael died peacefully in hospital with his wife Anne and his son Fergus at his bedside, following an attack of pneumonia,” reads a statement quoted by the British newspaper. The Guardian.
The family asked for respect for privacy “in this painful moment” and took the opportunity to thank them for the messages of support and affection.
Despite having a career spanning more than 60 years, beginning at London’s Royal National Theatre, Michael Gambon has won new audiences over the past two decades by appearing in six of the eight “Harry Potter” films, playing the Dean of Hogwarts. Magic School. , Professor Dumbledore.
Michael Gambon made his debut performing a Shakespeare play in Dublin, where he was born in 1940, after later emigrating to the United Kingdom and being hired by Laurence Olivier for the Royal National Theater company, where he returned to the English playwright’s repertoire.
A man of the theatre, Michael Gambon played Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Arthur Miller and David Hare, among other authors, won three Olivier awards and was known around the world, writes the BBC, as “The Great Gambon”.
Gambon also won four BAFTAs, for his representation on television, an area in which he participated in several series, in particular as Inspector Maigret, Georges Simenon’s police character, and Philip Marlow, in the musical revision of the “noir novel” by Dennis Potter.
In film, for example, he starred alongside Maggie Smith in “Othello” (1965) and in the “Harry Potter” films, he appeared in “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover”, by Peter Greenaway, “The Informer ”, by Michael Mann, “The Fish Out of Water”, by Wes Anderson, and “Gosford Park”, by Robert Altman.
The actor would gain greater popularity when he joined the cast of the “Harry Potter” films, an adaptation of JK Rowling’s literary series, from 2004 to 2011, replacing actor Richard Harris in the role of Dumbledore.
In 1998 he was decorated by Queen Elizabeth II of England for his contribution to the entertainment industry.
*News updated at 1:45 p.m.
Source: TSF
