2023-09-28 13:54:10
Irish actor Michael Gambon, known for playing Dumbledore in most of the Harry Potter saga and in films such as The cook, the thief, his wife and his lover y The king’s speech, died this Thursday at the age of 82 from pneumonia. He also had a long career in the world of theater behind him and was recognized, among other awards, with an Olivier award.
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Gambon played the director of Hogwarts from the third film of the universe created by JK Rowling, replacing Richard Harris, who died in 2002. The director who chose him to take over was Alfonso Cuarón (Roma, Gravity)which also had other names on the table such as Peter O’Toole (Lawrence de ArabiA)Richard Attenborough (Ghandi) and Ian McKellen (Mr. Holmes)who rejected it because he considered that the character was very similar to the Gandalf whom he had played in the trilogy of The Lord of the rings.
The actor was born in Cabra (Dublin) in 1940, during World War II, but he soon moved to London with his family, since his father, who was an engineer, decided to look for work in the capital of England to help rebuild the city. He studied at St Aloysius Boys and Crayford Secondary School, before winning a scholarship as an apprentice engineer to follow in his mother’s footsteps.
He later graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and joined the Unity Theater company. Already at the age of 24, she wrote a letter to the director of Dublin’s Gate Theater Micheál MacLiammóir, accompanied by a completely invented resume, but which led him to hire her. In 1962 he debuted in the play Othellowith which he toured Europe, inaugurating his prolific career on stage.
Your test to participate in the function Richard III by William Shakeaspeare caught the attention of director Laurence Olivier, who at the time was recruiting performers for his new company at the Royal National Theater in London. In it he was part of productions being Hamlet the most popular and award-winning, then starring Peter O’Toole. After three years, Olivier himself encouraged Gambon to gain more experience and in 1967 he joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, where he began to take leading roles in titles such as Otelo, Macbeth y Coriolanus.
The work that catapulted him was The Norman Conquest by Alan Ayckbourn in 1974, after which he returned to the Royal National Theatre. There he became one of the most requested actors by playwright Harold Pinter. Some of his most notable works were Life of Galileo (1980) y A view from the bridge (1988), for which he won the most important theater awards, including the Olivier and the London Critics’ Award. Her Broadway debut came in 1996 with Skylight, for which he was nominated for a Tony.
Later other functions arrived such as The Caretaker, Enrique IV, Eh Joe, No Man’s Land, The Habit of Art y All That Fall. The actor announced his retirement from the stage in February 2015, after revealing in an interview that he suffered from a memory loss problem that prevented him from memorizing the scripts. He also stated that he had long only accepted short roles and always performed with an earpiece so that they could remind him of his lines if needed.
‘Othello’, also his film debut
His debut on the big screen occurred in 1965, in the film Othello, directed by Laurence Olivier and it didn’t take long for him to start taking on villain roles. One of the first most notable characters of his was the medieval series The Borderersin which he participated between 1968 and 1970. In the eighties he worked on other fictions such as Oscar y The singing detective, in which his mimicry with a failed crime novel writer earned him a BAFTA award. He was also cast as the lead in the controversial feature film The cook, the thief, his wife and his loverby Peter Greenway, alongside Helen Mirren and Richard Bohringer.
During the nineties he was part of the cast of films such as Toys (1992) de Barry Levinson, Mary Reilly (1996), The player (1997) y The Insider (1999); who were followed by others like Sleepy Hollow (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow (2004), The Good Shepherd (2006), The king’s speech (2010), Quartet (2012), Little Women (2017) y Judy (2019), which was his last film.
His foray into the magical universe of Hogwarts was in 2004, in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. He later played Dumbledore in the following five titles in the saga: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) y Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011).
Other titles stand out on television such as The Storyteller (1990), Maigret (1992-1993), Longitude (2000), Angels in America (2003), Joe’s Palace (2008) y Road to warin which he played United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and was nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
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