Michael Gambon

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-10-19 (83 years old)

Deathday

2023-09-27

Place of Birth

Cabra, Dublin, Ireland

Michael Gambon

Biography

Sir Michael John Gambon was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards and four BAFTA TV Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. Gambon appeared in many productions of works by William Shakespeare such as Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and Coriolanus. Gambon was nominated for thirteen Olivier Awards, winning three times for A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), A View from the Bridge (1987), and Man of the Moment (1990). In 1997, Gambon made his Broadway ...

Acting

2004

2006

The Good Shepherd

as Dr. Fredericks

2003

Open Range

as Denton Baxter

1985

2009

Fantastic Mr. Fox

as Franklin Bean (voice)

1999

Sleepy Hollow

as Baltus Van Tassel

2004

Layer Cake

as Eddie Temple

2001

Gosford Park

as William McCordle

2003

Deep Blue

as Narrator (voice)

1998

Dancing at Lughnasa

as Father Jack Mundy

2010

2003

Path to War

as Lyndon Johnson

1992

Toys

as General Zevo

1989

A Dry White Season

as Magistrate

1999

The Insider

as Thomas Sandefur

2008

Brideshead Revisited

as Lord Marchmain

1996

Mary Reilly

as Mary’s Father

2003

The Actors

as Barreller

2007

The Good Night

as Alan Weigert

1974

The Beast Must Die

as Jan Jarmokowski

1973

Nothing But the Night

as Insp. Grant

1989

The Rachel Papers

as Doctor Knowd

2007

The Baker

as Leo

1973

The Catholics

as Brother Kevin

2006

Amazing Grace

as Lord Charles Fox

1995

2007

Joe's Palace

as Elliot Graham

1997

The Wings of the Dove

as Lionel Croy

1994

2000

Endgame

as Hamm

2000

The Last September

as Sir Richard Naylor

1994

Clean Slate

as Cornell

2004

Being Julia

as Jimmie Langton

1994

The Browning Version

as Dr. Frobisher

2000

Longitude

as John Harrison

1994

A Man of No Importance

as Ivor J. Carney

2011

Page Eight

as Benedict Baron

1999

Dead on Time

as Maurice Silverman

2012

Quartet

as Cedric Livingston

1985

Turtle Diary

as George Fairbairn

1978

The Seagull

as Trigorin

1987

Ghosts

as Pastor Manders

1996

Two Deaths

as Daniel Pavenic

2012

1989

Monster Maker

as Ultragorgon

1997

The Gambler

as Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2013

2014

On Angel Wings

as Grandfather

1993

The Entertainer

as Archie Rice

1988

Missing Link

as Narrator (voice)

1996

The Innocent Sleep

as Det. Insp. Matheson

1999

Plunkett & MacLeane

as Lord Gibson

2010

The King's Speech

as King George V

1991

Mobsters

as Don Salvatore Faranzano

2002

Ali G Indahouse

as Prime Minister

2014

Common

as Judge

2014

Paddington

as Uncle Pastuzo (voice)

2001

Christmas Carol: The Movie

as Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)

2007

2015

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

2016

Dad's Army

as Private Godfrey

2015

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Sylvia

as Professor Thomas

2017

Mad to Be Normal

as Sidney Kotok

1976

In the Labyrinth

as Duncan Harrison

1982

The Breadwinner

as Charles Battle

2016

Churchill's Secret

as Winston Churchill

2007

Celebration

as Lambert

2016

Hail, Caesar!

as Narrator (voice)

2001

1976

1976

French Without Tears

as Lt Cmdr Rogers

2010

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

as Old Kazran / Elliot Sardick

2017

Victoria & Abdul

as Lord Salisbury

2017

Viceroy's House

as General Hastings Ismay

1996

1967

1989

Paris by Night

as Gerald Paige

2017

Paddington 2

as Uncle Pastuzo (voice)

2013

Lucan

as John Burke

2019

Judy

as Bernard Delfont

2019

Cordelia

as Mr. Moses

2018

The Last Witness

as Frank Hamilton

2018

King of Thieves

as Billy 'The Fish' Lincoln

2018

Citizen Lane

as Lord Ardilaun

1996

Samson and Delilah

as King Hamun

1972

Cows

as Max

2003

Little Wolf's Book of Badness

as Uncle Bigbad (voice)

1988

1989

1965

Othello

as Senators-Soldiers-Cypriots

1989

Monster Maker

as Ultragorgon(voice)

2006

The Omen

as Bugenhagen

2024

Doctor Who at the Proms

as Kazran Sardick (archive footage)

1967

Much Ado About Nothing

as Other Watchman

2006

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