End of the journey for Dumbledore
Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore
Michael Gambon, best known to global audiences for playing the wise professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film franchise and regarded as one of the greatest British performers by Arthur Miller and others, has died. He was 82.
Gambon's family announced his death via a public relations firm in a brief statement released on Thursday.
“Michael died peacefully in hospital with his wife, Anne, and son Fergus at his bedside, following a bout of pneumonia,” the statement said.
Gambon began his career on stage in the early 1960s and eventually moved on to television and film.
He played a psychotic crime boss in Peter Greenaway's 1989 film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, as well as an elderly King George V in Tom Hooper's 2010...