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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 most recently in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow.

Other major film credits include Chariots of Fire; The French Lieutenant's Woman; Ghandi; Greystoke; Gorky Park; A Private Function; Shanghai Surprise; King Ralph; Blame it on the Bellboy; Naked Gun 2; Funny Bones; Superman II and in Don Boyd's Goldeneye.

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 include 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 Apocolypse; 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; Volpone and Red Star. Other major stage productions include: Heartbreak House; Galileo and Rules of the Game all at the Almeida Theatre; Art; Katherine Howard; The Man Who Came to Dinner; Verdi's Messiah and most recently Luther at the Royal National Theatre.

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