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Michael Gambon
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I hear that the no-smoking crowd are now operating at the National.
— Quoted in "The trickster," The Guardian (2 April 2004)
Michael Gambon
British actor (1940–2023)
- Fame59.8
- Momentum0.0
- Actors rank#240
Source-basedStable
- Fame59.8
- Momentum0.0
- Actors rank#240
- Wikipedia100K
Lived 1940–2023, aged 83United Kingdom
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08
He stepped into Dumbledore's robes after Richard Harris died and became the wizard two generations know — but the stage owned him first. Olivier picked him for the National Theatre's founding company, and over sixty years he collected three Oliviers, four BAFTAs, and a knighthood before he was done.
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Gambon started at the Royal National Theatre as one of Laurence Olivier's original picks, cutting his teeth on Shakespeare — Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus — and racking up thirteen Olivier nominations, winning three times between 1985 and 1990. His film debut came in 1965's Othello, and over the next decades he moved through The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Insider, Gosford Park, The King's Speech, and two Wes Anderson pictures. Television brought him four BAFTAs — for The Singing Detective, Wives and Daughters, Longitude, and Perfect Strangers — making him one of only two…
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Michael Gambon
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Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?
— Quoted in Dominic Wills, "Michael Gambon Biography", tiscali.co.uk (undated)
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- Irish Film & Television Awards
- British Independent Film Award – The Richard Harris Award
- Evening Standard Theatre Awards
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Stable59.8
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Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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