Actor Michael Gambon, who was best known for playing Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series of movies, has died. He was 82.
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Michael John Gambon was born on October 19, 1940, in Dublin to a seamstress mother and an engineer father
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He became a big-name actor in Britain after starring in the 1986 BBC series The Singing Detective. That role earned him his first of four BAFTA Awards. Gambon was knighted in 1998.
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Besides reprising his role as Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, he was a versatile actor showing up in film and television roles
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Notable film roles include a mob leader in Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, and the elderly King George V in Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech in 2010.
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But his best-known role was as Dumbledore, a character he took over in the third instalment of the eight-movie series after he replaced the late Richard Harris in 2004.
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But his best-known role was as Dumbledore, a character he took over in the third instalment of the eight-movie series after he replaced the late Richard Harris in 2004.
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"I didn't do Harry Potter because she wrote it," Gambon said in an interview. "I did it because I wanted the money."