The Dublin-born star found a legion of new fans in recent years after starring in six of the eight Harry Potter films.
JK Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe have led the tributes to Harry Potter star Sir Michael Gambon, hailing him as a “wonderful man” and an “outstanding actor”.
Rowling, who wrote the Harry Potter book series on which the films were based, paid tribute to Sir Michael saying she first saw him perform in King Lear in 1982 and if someone had told her the late actor “would appear in anything I’d written, I’d have thought you were insane”. The actor also described Sir Michael as an “incredible story and joke teller” and said he made the hours they spent on set “more memorable and joyous than they had any right to be”.
Actor Jason Isaacs said the “greatest thrill” of playing Lucius Malfoy in the film franchise was that Sir Michael knew his name and “shared his fearless, filthy sense of fun” with him – while James Phelps, who played Fred Weasley, regarded the late actor as a “legend” on and of the camera. “Which of course he always loved having an excuse to do because his family had come from Ireland, and gone to live in Camden. He just loved the precariousness of reality and unreality and, of course, that made him a very great actor.”
Dame Helen added that he made an “extraordinary contribution to the British landscape of theatre”, saying: “We will all miss him a lot.”Julia Roberts also described working with Sir Michael on the 1996 film Mary Reilly as an “honour”, writing on Instagram: “He was always smiling, always kind. RIP Sir Michael Gambon. #legend.”
While Irish President Michael D Higgins regarded him as “one of the finest actors of his generation”. “He was a lot of fun. He was a great actor, but he always pretended he didn’t take it very seriously. Of course, he does really take it seriously,” she told BBC Radio 4. Sir Michael was also known for playing French detective Jules Maigret in ITV series Maigret, and for his 1986 role as Philip Marlow in Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective.
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JK Rowling and Rupert Grint pay tribute to Harry Potter star Sir Michael GambonThe Dublin-born star found a legion of new fans in recent years after starring in six of the eight Harry Potter films.
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JK Rowling and Rupert Grint pay tribute to Harry Potter star Sir Michael GambonThe Dublin-born star found a legion of new fans in recent years after starring in six of the eight Harry Potter films.
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