Harry Potter co-stars join to pay tribute to the screen and stage legend Sir Michael Gambon after his sad demise at the age of 82. The actor who had played the infamous character Albus Dumbledore in the six movies that were made from the book series sadly passed away on September 28th. PA media reported while citing a family statement that the legendary actor had died peacefully in a hospital. Now his co-stars from the Harry Potter movies are paying emotional and heartfelt tribute to him on social media.
Daniel Radcliffe, who played the protagonist Harry Potter in the film series had called him a “brilliant, effortless” actor who “loved his job but never seemed defined by it”. Similarly, the female lead in the movie, Hermione Granger, played by actress Emma Watson also thanked the fabled actor for “showing us what it looks like to wear greatness lightly”. Another Potter actor Fiona Shaw who played the character of Petunia Dursley in the film series that the actor had showed in his long and varied acting life that he could play and do anything as an actor. The writer of the fiction book series, JK Rowling has also said that he was a “wonderful man” and “outstanding actor”. Rupert Grint, who played another crucial character in the film series, Ron Weasley called the late actor his “personal role model” who had “brought so much warmth and mischief to every day on set”.
The actor who was born in Dublin moved with his family to London but soon made it to his very first stage performance in Ireland. It was a production of Othello in 1962, in Dublin. Even though he started acting at a very young age, Sir Gambon’s career took off when he became one of the original members of the National Theatre acting company of Laurence Olivier in London. He then went on to win three Olivier awards for his performances in the National Theatre productions. In his acting career, Sir Gambon has always held theater work on a high pedestal and regarded his work in the theater as most important.
He then neutered the world of television and movies where he won numerous big awards and became known as one of the most acclaimed actors out there. Between the period of the 1980s and 1990s, he became a known face in the industry of films and television and acted in one of the most controversial and groundbreaking BBC One drama, ‘The Singing Detective’. He played the primary character of the detective in the complex tale that was written by Dennis Potter. Then he also played a very different role of the detective Parisian Jules Maigret in the ITV adaptation of Georges Simenon’s classic novels and portrayed the character of writer and poet Oscar Wilde in three-part BBC Two series. Other than this his other notable television works include 1989’s ‘The Cook’.
He became worldwide famous for playing the role of Albus Dumbledore in the film series, Harry Potter which was adapted from the book series of the same name written by JK Rowling.
