Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82

The actor, a four-time Bafta award winner, was best known for playing Dumbledore in the hit film series.

3arn0wl 27 points 3 years ago

This is sad news. Condolences to his family and friends.

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Ertebolle 26 points 3 years ago

With him, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, and Alan Rickman all gone, the only members of the Hogwarts Professor Tontine left are Maggie Smith and Warwick Davis.

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ivanafterall 2 points 3 years ago

Guess we know who's next. :(

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holycrap 15 points 3 years ago

Alas, poor Warwick.

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Ertebolle 9 points 3 years ago

One of the few non-Avengers in the list of all-time highest grossing actors.

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moistclump 3 points 3 years ago

You take those filthy words from your mouth!

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ivanafterall 2 points 3 years ago

There, there. That gives you time to prepare yourself. Not a lot of time, mind you, but some time.

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Tramdan 16 points 3 years ago

He did one or two other things!

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IndiBrony 16 points 3 years ago

He got a corner of a race circuit named after him!

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Default_Defect 9 points 3 years ago

Imagine having the career he had and the only thing people talk about is fucking harry potter...

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roofuskit 7 points 3 years ago

RIP, incredible performer. One of my favorite scenes of his.

https://youtu.be/2U4aCMIBYSY?si=FjF6p4TwQyBng6Cz

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Ertebolle 3 points 3 years ago

One of Chief O'Brien's more elaborate holodeck simulations

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roofuskit 5 points 3 years ago

Colm Meany is one of the few TNG cast to have an extensive acting career outside of Star Trek. But also had been in more seasons of Trek than most of the other actors on the show.

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mymanchris 3 points 3 years ago

I don't know. Patrick Stewart seems to have done ok too.

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roofuskit 2 points 3 years ago

"one of the few"

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lastjinn 7 points 3 years ago

RIP

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scrubbles 5 points 3 years ago

I've always thought Harry Potter is one of the best cast movies of all time. Michael Gambon had massive shoes to fill with Dumbledore with everyone already having 2 movies under them and him needing to rise to the occasion, and he did. Sad day for sure, those movies had a permanent impact on me.

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be_excellent_to_each_other 10 points 3 years ago

I generally respect Michael Gambon and am sad to hear of his passing, but personally I thought he was a horrible Dumbledore in comparison to Harris. His general manner was a stark contrast in Prisoner of Azkaban, and his treatment of Harry in Goblet of Fire was very unDumbledore IMO, and whatever might have been excused regarding differences in style was somewhat destroyed when he said he'd never even read the books in prep for the role.

https://www.slashfilm.com/...

By the final movies I found him passable, and I will go to my grave believing it's because he didn't understand the character well enough for the first couple, and by the end he did.

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Sylvartas 3 points 3 years ago

You don't have to know the source material to absolutely kill a role though.

Source : I know next to nothing about acting but I saw Werner Herzog in "The Mandalorian" and he nailed that role despite allegedly not giving a shit about the universe and not watching a single movie or reading any of the books.

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Ertebolle 3 points 3 years ago

I mean that was more-or-less Werner Herzog's natural delivery, they just had him go in and read a buncha lines; somebody decided that Basically Werner Herzog was the right fit for that character and then they went out and got him to do it.

(I imagine this is how Stephen Tobolowsky gets many of his acting jobs too)

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be_excellent_to_each_other 2 points 3 years ago

I agree, that's true. But when you are taking over in a role from another actor who was beloved in that role, even if you are determined to make it your own, and even if you are Michael Gambon, it seems rather careless and unprofessional not to familiarize yourself with that material.

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Ertebolle 3 points 3 years ago

I wouldn't discount Harris' innate advantages there too; he was 10 years older than Gambon, aged more poorly (having been an alcoholic hellraiser in his younger years), and his natural delivery - even when he was much younger - had that sort-of wizened wheezing sound to it; "old and physically frail but with incredible magic power" was sort of baked in even before he added any actual acting to the mix.

But I don't know if there's an alternative who would have been better in that regard; the three I'm aware of them talking about were Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, and Peter O'Toole, but the latter two would have played him very much like Gambon did, and I'm not sure if Lee could have pulled off "frail" either given his voice + physical stature.

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goldgate 5 points 3 years ago

Best interview I have ever seen RIP https://youtu.be/kOqS2jZdaoI?si=9dzs1Tt9DOcBsdul

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