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Born: July 31, 1947
Hometown: Thornaby-on-Tees, Cleveland, England
BIO & CREDITS:
Richard Griffiths is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved actors, a regular face on television and in film. He has featured in a number of films over the last 20 years and is perhaps best remembered in Withnail & I and in Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow.

In the UK, Griffiths is a much loved character actor most famed for his BBC television series "Pie in the Sky" and "Hope & Glory". His other main television performances in the BBC’s "Gormenghast"; "Inspector Morse"; "In the Red"; "Ted and Ralph"; "Amnesty"; "Bird of Prey"; "The Cleopatras"; "Merry Wives of Windsor"; "The Marksman"; "Mr. Wakefield’s Crusade"; "LWT’s Nobody’s Perfect" and "Whoops Apocalypse"; Thames TV’s "Ffizz"; Central’s "A Kind of Living" and Granada’s "El Cid".

Griffiths is also an established theatre actor having performed with the RSC in "The White Guard"; "Once in a Lifetime"; "Henry VIII".