He was best known for playing Professor Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight Harry Potter films
Actor Sir Michael Gabon has died in hospital aged 82his family announced.
He was best known for his role Professor Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight Harry Potter films.
Sir Michael also appeared in Fantastic Mr Fox, played French detective Maigret and starred in The Singing Detective.
His widow and son said their “beloved husband and father” died peacefully with his family by his side after suffering from pneumonia.
Sir Michael Gabon started at Laurence Olivier’s fledgling National Theater to play roles in The Singing Detective and Harry Potter.
Michael Gabon excelled in works by Pinter, Beckett and Ayckbournwinning the admiration of all his colleagues.
Ayckbourn directed him in 1987 in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, for which Gabon won an Olivier Award for his performance as Brooklyn’s Eddie Carbone. Gabon also starred in Ayckbourn’s ambitious trilogy The Norman Conquests. Other key roles include that of the eponymous scientist in The Life of Galileo at Brecht’s National Theater in 1980.
Gabon also found success with Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) and went on to play roles in major films such as Sleepy Hollow, The Insider and Gosford Park. Then, sporting a beard and tasseled hat, he played Harry Potter’s Professor Albus Dumbledore, replacing Richard Harris after his death in 2002.
Source :Skai
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