Russell Batiste Jr. obit

 

Renowned New Orleans drummer Russell Batiste Jr. dies at 57

Hailing from a large musical family, he powered the Funky Meters and many other bands

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Russell Batiste Jr., the multi-talented New Orleans drummer who powered the Funky Meters and scores of other bands, died Saturday at his home in LaPlace. He was 57.

The cause of death was a heart attack, his brother Damon Batiste said.

“He was like a son to me,” Meters guitarist Leo Nocentelli said Sunday, hours after learning of Russell's death.

“I didn’t know how much he meant to me until now. It’s a helluva loss to New Orleans music and culture.”

A partial list of bands Batiste played in includes the Meters, the Funky Meters, George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners, Dumpstaphunk, Bonerama, Papa Grows Funk, the Wild Magnolias and the Joe Krown Trio, in addition to his own Russell Batiste & Friends.

He also was a member of the all-star trio Vida Blue featuring Phish keyboardist Page McConnell and Allman Brothers Band and Dead & Company bassist Oteil Burbridge.

“Russell was a major economic development engine by himself,” Damon Batiste said. “He gave all of his blood, sweat and tears to other groups when he was young.”

Despite an international reputation — the likes of Mick Jagger professed admiration for Batiste’s drumming — he did not aspire to fame and fortune. He preferred performing in local clubs to traveling the world.

“He never was interested in accolades and money,” Damon Batiste said. “He wanted to make the music right. Russell loved New Orleans more than anything. He just wanted to be at the Maple Leaf Bar and Le Bon Temps Roule.

“Russell should have been playing stadiums, not music clubs. You don’t have talent like that in a bar.”

When his famous cousin Jon Batiste performed a pop-up show at the Maple Leaf days before the 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Russell Batiste spent the first few songs onstage with him. Jon Batiste seemed amused by his cousin’s enthusiasm.

“When he and Jon performed at the Maple Leaf, he was the happiest man in the world,” Damon Batiste said.

Born David Russell Batiste Jr., he hailed from a sprawling family of musicians and learned multiple instruments as a young child. His father, David Batiste Sr., was a principal of pioneering New Orleans funk band the Gladiators, which evolved into the Batiste Brothers Band.

To avoid being confused with his father, David Jr. used his middle name, Russell. He and Damon both joined the Batiste Brothers Band when they were still in grade school.

The brothers made their Jazz Fest debut in 1978 under the name Young Gifted & Black. They returned the following year with the Batiste Brothers Band.

At St. Augustine High School, Russell drummed for the school's Marching 100 marching band. After graduating in 1983, he attended Southern University, where he studied under the late jazz saxophonist Edward “Kidd” Jordan. He left Southern and became the drummer for singer Charmaine Neville.

For the next four decades, he formed part of the bedrock of the New Orleans music community. He came to prominence in the late 1980s as the drummer in a latter incarnation of acclaimed New Orleans funk band the Meters, following the departure of original Meters drummer Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste.

Batiste’s approach to funk was more muscular than Modeliste's. His first gig with the Meters was at an Orleans Avenue club called the Riverboat Hallelujah.

“Russell was a wild young guy,” Nocentelli said. “The first time he played with the Meters, he was late. We had to go find him. I chewed him out.”

After Nocentelli left the Meters, keyboardist Art Neville and bassist George Porter Jr. carried on as a new project dubbed the Funky Meters, with Batiste on drums and Brian Stoltz on guitar. They served up hard-hitting versions of classic Meters songs for audiences across the country.

In those years, Batiste struggled with addiction, but eventually conquered his demons.

“He crossed that hurdle a long time ago,” Damon Batiste said. “He got back on his feet.”

“That depiction of him was gone,” Nocentelli said of Batiste's "wild" years, noting that Batiste had been a reliable collaborator for more than a decade, one whose “heart and soul” approach to music matched his own.

He was the "glue" that held together the big Batiste family, Damon Batiste said. Music was far and away the most important element of his life. During the COVID lockdown, Russell Batiste & Friends continued to rehearse most Tuesdays at the shuttered B.B. King’s club on Decatur.

On Aug. 26, Russell Batiste marched along Oak Street near the Maple Leaf as part of a drum corps for the Krewe of O.A.K.’s Mid-Summer Mardi Gras Parade. “That was his last parade,” Damon Batiste said.

Russell Batiste & Friends performed every Sunday in September at Le Bon Temps Roule on Magazine St.

On Sept. 23 he watched his alma mater, St. Augustine, play Edna Karr at Tad Gormley Stadium. He posted an Instagram video of himself, his hair cropped short and dyed aquamarine, sitting in the bleachers with fellow members of St. Aug’s class of 1983.

He was scheduled to perform three times at the NOLA Funk Fest at the New Orleans Jazz Museum on the grounds of the Old U.S. Mint on Oct. 20-22: with his own band, with the Gladiators and with Nocentelli.

As word of Russell Batiste’s death spread, musicians from across the spectrum of New Orleans music flooded social media with remembrances of a musician whose personality was as outsized as his drumming.

Trombonist Mark Mullins, who played alongside Batiste in the Runnin' Pardners and Bonerama, cited his "talent, unpredictability, fire. Spontaneous combustion on the stage and a pocket like no other. There was no holding back with him. With only a smile and that certain glance he'd give you on stage, he would bring you right along with him to a place you never thought you could go to musically."

Papa Grows Funk founder John "Papa" Gros wrote on Facebook, "Russell Batiste embodied the entire history of New Orleans drumming every time he played. He represented it all, from street bands to trad, from rhythm & blues to rock 'n' roll, from funk to fusion. He was the past, present and future of the New Orleans sound and we all knew it."

Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

Matthew Katz obit

Band Manager Matthew Katz Has died 

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Katz commenced his career in music in the 1960s, as the manager of three San Francisco-based bands, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and It's A Beautiful Day.

Katz is also the owner of San Francisco Sound Records, which has released original or licensed material by Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, It's a Beautiful Day and Tim Hardin, among others. The company released Unforgiven (1981), the last recordings of Tim Hardin.

Other groups that Katz worked with include Tripsichord Music Box and a group from Seattle originally named "West Coast Natural Gas," which Katz renamed "Indian, Puddin' & Pipe."

Katz opened two different music showcases named "San Francisco Sound". The Seattle location was in a building on Capitol Hill originally named The Encore Ballroom and operated between 1967 and 1969. It is now a Public Storage warehouse. The other location was in Tottenville, Staten Island in New York City.

Katz was a candidate for city council of Malibu, California in April 2010.

Ron Wowden obit

Nektar founding member and drummer Ron Howden dead at 78

 Nektar bandmate and bassist Derek 'Mo' Moore confirms Howden's passing on social media

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Nektar founding member and drummer Ron Howden has died aged 78, it has been confirmed. Fellow band mate and founder, guitarist Derek 'Mo' Moore confirmed the news with a post on social media earlier today.

Howden had endured various health problems in recent years, including battling and beating cancer in 2016.

In his statement, Moore said, "It is with a heavy heart that I have to tell you that my friend and rhythm section partner for 60 years, Ron Howden, has passed on to the great gig in the sky. He was with us on Sunday when we jammed on new music at Ryche’s house and we had a great day with him. Plans were made for the future, record the new music, get it out and maybe a short tour in the spring to support it. Don’t know where that stands now he is gone but I know he was a big part of it on Sunday. Frankly I am heartbroken, I cannot imagine a world without Ron in it.

"He has been battling different health problems including cancer since 2016 and beat it all back and survived each occurrence. Chemotherapy knocked him out but he played through it all.

"Born in Sheffield, England in January 1945 he is survived by his wife Ann Howden, Ilene howden, his sister Brenda, his daughters, Julie and Tanya and their respective families and the entire Nektar family.

"We played together since we were kids (18 and 19 respectively). I see him now coming up to the front of the stage in Nancy, France and telling me he wanted to play with us. The band was the Upsetters. We were playing US Army bases. I knew him well from the Sheffield scene. We swapped drummers that night and our lifetime trip together started that night. It was December 1964.

"There will be a celebration of life for Ron in the near future."

Howden and Moore formed Nektar in 1969 with guitarist and vocalist Roye Albrighton, Allan "Taff" Freeman on keyboards and artists Mick Brockett and Keith Walters on lights and "special effects".

The band released a series of acclaimed albums, such as 1971 debut album Journey To The Centre Of The Eye,  A Tab In The Ocean (1972) and Remember The Future (1973), the latter breaking the Top 20 in the US, and despite being British, always found more acclaim in Germany.

Nektar originally disbanded in 1978, with Albrighton briefly resurrecting them in the 1980s. The original line-up reunited to play NEARfest in the USA in 2002 and Howden remained in the band until Albrighton died in 2016, aged 67. Howden and Moore formed a new line-up of the band with guitarist/vocalist Ryche Chlander, bassist Randy Dembo and keyboard player Kendall Scott, with Mick Brockett returning on special effects.

The band released a new studio album The Other Side in 2020.

Dianne Feinstein obit

Dianne Feinstein, Longest-Serving Female US Senator, Dies at 90

• Oldest member of Congress was elected in ‘Year of the Woman’
• She led probe of CIA’s interrogation techniques after 9/11

 

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who was first elected to the U.S. Senate from California in 1992 in a wave election known as "the Year of the Woman" and went on to champion gun control, died today, NPR has confirmed. She was 90 years old.

Feinstein's rise in politics began on Nov. 27, 1978, when her city was jolted by two political assassinations at City Hall. As president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, she announced the news to a shocked press corps.

"As President of the Board of Supervisors, it is my duty to announce that both Mayor [George] Moscone and Supervisor [Harvey] Milk have been shot and killed," Feinstein said in a firm but clearly stunned voice.

At that moment, Feinstein became interim mayor and went on to win election and later reelection, serving as mayor until 1988.

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown – a longtime political ally of hers – said Feinstein's handling of the assassinations crisis cemented her reputation.

"It was a dramatic demonstration of how in the face of total and complete disaster, somebody could stand up to settle the ship," Brown said in 2022.

After the city hall assassinations, Mayor Feinstein signed a local gun control ordinance, angering a fringe gun rights organization called the White Panthers. Collaborating with groups unhappy with the mayor's pro-growth, pro-business and other moderate policies, the White Panthers managed to collect enough signatures to place a recall of Feinstein on the ballot in 1983. The recall failed, catapulting Feinstein into easy reelection later that year.

As mayor, Feinstein governed from the center – winning support from business groups, law enforcement unions and the city's more conservative voters. Her moderate governing style often angered San Francisco's more liberal activists. In 1982 she vetoed legislation that would have allowed same sex couples to form domestic partnerships entitling them to city benefits, hospital visitation rights and more. She also refused to sign "comparable worth" legislation guaranteeing women equal pay to men who work similar jobs.

In a 2001 interview with C-SPAN, Feinstein attributed her political philosophy to her upbringing.

"My mother was a Democrat. My father was a Goldwater Republican. So we had a split family," Feinstein said.

Achieving national standing

In 1984, San Francisco hosted the Democratic National Convention. Feinstein landed on the cover of Time magazine and made the short list to be presidential nominee Walter Mondale's running mate.

By then the AIDS epidemic was ravaging her city. The federal government under President Ronald Reagan mostly ignored it. A young physician at San Francisco General Hospital, Paul Volberding often briefed Mayor Feinstein on what was needed to fight the disease.

"I don't recall any moment in the early epidemic when I was told, 'No, we can't do that because we don't have the resources,' " recalled Volberding, who became one of the pioneers in AIDS treatment.

In fact, in the mid-1980s, San Francisco alone was spending more on AIDS than the entire federal government. "And that really goes to her leadership and a great credit to her," Volberding said.

Election to the Senate

In 1990, after leaving the mayor's office, Feinstein ran for governor. She lost narrowly to Republican Sen. Pete Wilson. But a year later, the political climate changed with the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.

When law professor Anita Hill accused Thomas of sexual misconduct when they worked together, members of the Judiciary Committee, including Democratic Sen. Howell Heflin of Alabama, questioned Hill's integrity and motivation.

"Are you a scorned woman? Do you have a militant attitude relative to the area of civil rights?" Sen. Heflin drawled.

Feinstein used those widely criticized hearings as a springboard to the U.S. Senate.

"​​Many people took a look at that all-male Judiciary Committee and frankly felt they badly botched the job," Feinstein said campaigning in 1992. Her platform included writing a woman's right to an abortion into federal law.

"The Congress must pass it and the president must sign it. And if he vetoes it, we must override that veto," she said.

Feinstein won the Senate seat, making history as part of the so-called Year of the Woman.

In Washington, she advocated gun control, overcoming stiff odds to pass a federal ban on assault weapons in 1994. Later that year she almost lost reelection. But she developed a reputation as a workhorse, someone who did her homework, and wasn't afraid to rock the boat.

Report on torture by the CIA

In 2014, over objections from the Obama administration, she took to the Senate floor to release a comprehensive report on torture by the CIA following the Sept. 11 attacks.

"Releasing this report is an important step to restore our values and show the world that we are, in fact, a just and lawful society," Feinstein said.

The 500-page summary report by the Intelligence Committee Feinstein chaired revealed in stark detail CIA mistreatment of prisoners, including things like waterboarding and sleep deprivation.

Tom Blanton, who heads the National Security Archive at George Washington University, says the investigation Feinstein directed made the intelligence community accountable.

"I think the Senate torture report was probably the high point of Sen. Feinstein's entire Senate career," Blanton said.

Reelection at age 85

The election of Donald Trump in 2016 put Feinstein's brand of bipartisanship out of step within her own party. Democrats who hoped Feinstein would step aside for a new generation of candidates were disappointed – even angry – when she sought and won another 6-year term in 2018 at the age of 85. Some news reports cited apparent memory lapses.

In the fifth year of her final term in office, a serious bout of shingles forced Feinstein to miss nearly 100 votes while she recovered at home in San Francisco.

When she returned to Washington almost three months later, she appeared even more frail with lingering side effects from shingles that limited her ability to work.

Former aide Jim Lazarus believes her reasons for staying in office, rather than enjoying retirement, were intensely personal.

"I just don't think she could see what else to do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. She felt well enough and alert enough and strong enough to serve," Lazarus said.

A role model for women in government

Feinstein's most enduring legacy may be opening more doors for women in politics. She was San Francisco's first female mayor, although she wasn't always as much of a feminist as advocates would have liked.

But Malia Cohen, who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors before being elected to the state Board of Equalization, remembers meeting Feinstein at City Hall on a third grade field trip where Feinstein told her class one of them could be mayor one day.

"I believe that I'm standing on her shoulders. And I wouldn't be here without her leadership," Cohen said.

Feinstein's third husband Richard Blum died in 2022. She is survived by her daughter Katherine, a now-retired judge who served on the state superior court in San Francisco.

While some Democrats felt Dianne Feinstein was too moderate and stayed in office too long, she'll also be remembered as a woman who led her city through a moment of extraordinary grief and became an effective champion for important national issues in the U.S. Senate.

Although Feinstein was not always embraced by the feminist movement, her experiences colored her outlook through her five decades in politics.

“I recognize that women have had to fight for everything they have gotten, every right,” she told The Associated Press in 2005, as the Judiciary Committee prepared to hold hearings on President George W. Bush’s nomination of John Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court.

“So I must tell you, I try to look out for women’s rights. I also try to solve problems as I perceive them, with legislation, and reaching out where I can, and working across the aisle,” she said.

Her tendency for bipartisanship helped her notch legislative wins throughout her career. But it also proved to be a liability in her later years in Congress, as her state became more liberal and as the Senate and the electorate became increasingly polarized.

One of Feinstein’s most significant legislative accomplishments was early in her career, when the Senate approved her amendment to ban manufacturing and sales of certain types of assault weapons as part of a crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. Though the assault weapons ban expired 10 years later and was never renewed or replaced, it was a poignant win after her career had been significantly shaped by gun violence.

She had little patience for Republicans and others who opposed her on that issue, though she was often challenged. In 1993, during debate on the assault weapons ban, Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, accused her of having an insufficient knowledge of guns and the gun control issue.

Feinstein spoke fiercely of the violence she’d lived through in San Francisco and retorted: ‘’Senator, I know something about what firearms can do.”

Two decades later, after 20 children and six educators were killed in a horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, first-term Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas similarly challenged Feinstein during debate on legislation that would have permanently banned the weapons.

“I’m not a sixth grader,” Feinstein snapped back at the much younger Cruz -- a moment that later went viral. She added: “It’s fine you want to lecture me on the Constitution. I appreciate it. Just know I’ve been here a long time.”

Feinstein campaigned jointly with Barbara Boxer, who was running for the state’s other U.S. Senate seat, and both won, benefiting from positive news coverage and excitement over their historic race. California had never had a female U.S. senator, and female candidates and voters had been galvanized by the Supreme Court hearings in which the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Anita Hill about her sexual harassment allegations against nominee Clarence Thomas.

Feinstein was appointed to the Judiciary panel and eventually the Senate Intelligence Committee, becoming the chairperson in 2009. She was the first woman to lead the intelligence panel, a high-profile perch that gave her a central oversight role over U.S. intelligence controversies, setbacks and triumphs, from the killing of Osama bin Laden to leaks about National Security Agency surveillance.

Under Feinstein’s leadership, the intelligence committee conducted a wide-ranging, five-year investigation into CIA interrogation techniques during President George W. Bush’s administration, including waterboarding of terrorism suspects at secret overseas prisons. The resulting 6,300-page “torture report” concluded among other things that waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” did not provide key evidence in the hunt for bin Laden. A 525-page executive summary was released in late 2014, but the rest of the report has remained classified.

The Senate investigation was full of intrigue at the time, including documents that mysteriously disappeared and accusations traded between the Senate and the CIA that the other was stealing information. The drama was captured in a 2019 movie about the investigation called “The Report,” and actor Annette Bening was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Feinstein.

Feinstein closed out confirmation hearings for Justice Amy Coney Barrett with an embrace of Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and a public thanks to him for a job well done. “This has been one of the best set of hearings that I’ve participated in,” Feinstein said at the end of the hearing.

Liberal advocacy groups that had fiercely opposed Barrett’s nomination to replace the late liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg were furious and called for her to step down from the committee leadership.

A month later, Feinstein announced she would remain on the committee but step down as the top Democrat. The senator, then 87 years old, did not say why. In a statement, she said she would “continue to do my utmost to bring about positive change in the coming years.”

Feinstein was born on June 22, 1933. Her father, Leon Goldman, was a prominent surgeon and medical school professor in San Francisco, but her mother was an abusive woman with a violent temper that was often directed at Feinstein and her two younger sisters.

Feinstein graduated from Stanford University in 1955, with a bachelor’s degree in history. She married young and was a divorced single mother of her daughter, Katherine, in 1960, at a time when such a status was still unusual.

In 1961, Feinstein was appointed by then-Gov. Pat Brown to the women’s parole board, on which she served before running for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Typical of the era, much of the early coverage of her entrance into public life focused on her appearance, and she was invariably described as stunning, tall, slender and raven-haired.

Feinstein’s second husband, Bert Feinstein, was 19 years older than she, but she described the marriage as “a 10″ and kept his name even after his death from cancer in 1978. In 1980, she married investment banker Richard Blum, and thanks to his wealth, she was one of the richest members of the Senate. He died in February 2022.

In addition to her daughter, Feinstein has a granddaughter, Eileen, and three stepchildren.

“She was one of the most effective legislators in recent memory because of her willingness to work across the aisle in good faith in order to solve complex problems,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who served with her on the Judiciary Committee.

Feinstein was also a renowned proponent of gun safety legislation. As fellow advocate Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said on Friday morning: “For a long time, between 1994 and the tragedy in Newtown in 2012, Dianne was often a lonely but unwavering voice on the issue of gun violence.”

Three California House Democrats — Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee — are all running for the full six-year term in the 2024 election. Feinstein’s interim replacement will serve through next year, and Gavin Newsom’s selection is a fraught choice that’s certain to alienate people.

Her death, confirmed by two people with knowledge of the situation, brings Senate Democrats’ functional majority to 50 votes, with Republicans holding 49 votes. Two other Democratic senators tested positive for Covid this week — and the majority of the caucus is calling on indicted Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) to resign.

Joyce Grable obit

Joyce Grable Passes Away At Age 70

 

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Betty Wade Murphy, known in the wrestling world as Joyce Grable, has passed away.

Grable's family confirmed that Joyce Grable passed away on September 29, a few days after it had been reported that she entered hospice care.

Roy Lucier tweeted - Sadly I just got off the phone with Leilani who confirmed that Joyce passed away this morning. My deepest condolences to her family. Our business truly lost one of the greats today

Following her debut in 1971, Grable had a legendary career in the wrestling world. She wrestled for the NWA, WWWF, Stampde Wrestling, World Wrestling Council, and the AWA. She was a six-time NWA Women's World Tag Team Champion; she held the titles three times each with Vicki Williams and Wendi Richter.

Grable also held the NWA Texas Women's Championship and the NWA United States Women's Championship. During her time wrestling for WWWF, Grable wrestled The Fabulous Moolah. She retired in 1991.

Grable was inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2013 and the NWA Hall of Fame in 2012. She revealed that she had been diagnosed with leukemia in 2013, and she was honored with the Cauliflower Alley Club's Courage Award in 2022.

In 2018, Grable discussed training and working with The Fabulous Moolah.

On behalf of Fightful, we send our condolences to Grable's family, friends, and fans.

Roger Lewis Horne obit

Obituary: Roger Lewis Horne

 

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Roger Lewis Horne, a loving husband, father, grandfather, talented songwriter and accomplished business owner, passed away on Sept. 28, 2023, in Franklin, Tennessee. He was born on Feb. 18, 1946, in Owosso, Michigan to the late John and June Horne.

Roger's extensive career in music spanned decades, during which he wrote more than 700 songs and was a very sought after recording producer. From an early age, Roger showed a deep passion for music. After graduating from Marshall University, he embarked on a remarkable journey, sharing his gift with the world. Roger sang and traveled with various musical groups including the Cathedral Quartet, Jerry and the Goffs, Scenic Land Quartet, The Gospel Harmony Boys, and The Roger Horne Trio.

Throughout his life, Roger found great joy in spreading the gospel, especially through his music. While Roger's professional accomplishments were impressive, he prided himself most on being a loving husband to Becky Lee for 54 years and a doting father to his children Brant (Kristen) and Ashlee. In addition to being survived by his beloved wife and children, he also leaves behind grandchildren, Rylee, Jackson, Ainslee, and Weston; siblings, Bill, Cecil (Neva), Jim (Charlene), Bob (Connie), Tammi, and Rhonda (Garry); sister-in-law Kay (Gerald).

He is preceded in death by his parents John and June, father-in-law Morton, mother-in-law Ruth, brother Danny, sister-in-law Brenda and brother-in-law Mort. A private graveside service for Roger will take place in Williamson Memorial Gardens.

Michael Gambon obit

Michael Gambon, veteran actor who played Dumbledore in ‘Harry Potter’ films, dies at age 82

 

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Michael Gambon, the Irish-born actor knighted for his illustrious career on the stage and screen and who went on to gain admiration from a new generation of moviegoers with his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight “Harry Potter” films, has died. He was 82.

The actor died on Wednesday following “a bout of pneumonia,” his publicist, Clair Dobbs, said Thursday.

“We are devastated to announce the loss of Sir Michael Gambon. Beloved husband and father, Michael died peacefully in hospital with his wife Anne and son Fergus at his bedside,” his family said in a statement.

While the Potter role raised Gambon’s international profile and found him a huge audience, he had long been celebrated as one of Britain’s leading actors. His work spanned TV, theater, film and radio, and over the decades he starred in dozens of movies from “Gosford Park” and “The King’s Speech” to the animated family film “Paddington.” He recently appeared in the Judy Garland biopic “Judy,” released in 2019.

Gambon was knighted for his contribution to the entertainment industry in 1998.

The role of the much loved Professor Dumbledore was initially played by another Irish-born actor, Richard Harris. When Harris died in 2002, after two of the films in the franchise had been made, Gambon took over and played the part from “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” through to “Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2.”

He once acknowledged not having read any of J. K Rowling’s best-selling books, arguing that it was safer to follow the script rather than be too influenced by the books. That didn’t prevent him from embodying the spirit of the powerful wizard who fought against evil to protect his students.

Co-stars often described Gambon as a mischievous, funny man who was self-deprecating about his talent. Actress Helen Mirren fondly remembered his “natural Irish sense of humor — naughty but very, very funny.”

Fiona Shaw, who played Petunia Dursley in the “Harry Potter” series, recalled Gambon telling her how central acting was to his life.

“He did once say to me in a car ‘I know I go on a lot about this and that, but actually, in the end, there is only acting’,” Shaw told the BBC on Thursday. “I think he was always pretending that he didn’t take it seriously, but he took it profoundly seriously.”

Irish President Michael D. Higgins paid tribute to Gambon’s “exceptional talent,” praising him as “one of the finest actors of his generation.”

Born in Dublin on Oct. 19, 1940, Gambon was raised in London and originally trained as an engineer, following in the footsteps of his father. He did not have formal drama training, and was said to have started work in the theater as a set builder. He made his theater debut in a production of “Othello” in Dublin.

In 1963 he got his first big break with a minor role in “Hamlet,” the National Theatre Company’s opening production, under the directorship of the legendary Laurence Olivier.

Gambon soon became a distinguished stage actor and received critical acclaim for his leading performance in “Life of Galileo,” directed by John Dexter. He was frequently nominated for awards and won the Laurence Olivier Award 3 times and the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards twice.

A multi-talented actor, Gambon was also the recipient of four coveted British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards for his television work.

He became a household name in Britain after his lead role in the 1986 BBC TV series “The Singing Detective,” written by Dennis Potter and considered a classic of British television drama. Gambon won the BAFTA for best actor for the role.

Gambon also won Emmy nominations for more recent television work — as Mr. Woodhouse in a 2010 adaption of Jane Austen’s “Emma,” and as former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in 2002’s “Path to War.”

Gambon was versatile as an actor but once told the BBC he preferred to play “villainous characters.” He played gangster Eddie Temple in the British crime thriller “Layer Cake” — a review of the film by the New York Times referred to Gambon as “reliably excellent” — and a Satanic crime boss in Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.”

He also had a part as King George V in the 2010 drama film “The King’s Speech.” In 2015 he returned to the works of J.K. Rowling, taking a leading role in the TV adaptation of her non-Potter book “The Casual Vacancy.”

“I absolutely loved working with him,” Rowling posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “The first time I ever laid eyes on him was in ‘King Lear’, in 1982, and if you’d told me then that brilliant actor would appear in anything I’d written, I’d have thought you were insane.”

Gambon retired from the stage in 2015 after struggling to remember his lines in front of an audience due to his advancing age. He once told the Sunday Times Magazine: “It’s a horrible thing to admit, but I can’t do it. It breaks my heart.”

Gambon was always protective when it came to his private life. He married Anne Miller and they had one son, Fergus. He later had two sons with set designer Philippa Hart.

 Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four BAFTA Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama.

Gambon appeared in many productions of works by William Shakespeare such as Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and Coriolanus. Gambon was nominated for thirteen Olivier Awards, winning three times for A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), A View from the Bridge (1987), and Man of the Moment (1990). In 1997, Gambon made his Broadway debut in David Hare's Skylight, earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination.

Gambon made his film debut in Othello (1965). His other notable films include The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), The Wings of the Dove (1997), The Insider (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Amazing Grace (2006), The King's Speech (2010), Quartet (2012), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). Gambon also appeared in the Wes Anderson films The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). Gambon enhanced his stardom through his role of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series from 2004 to 2011, replacing Richard Harris following his death in 2002.

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Henry Tyson

2015–2018

10 episodes

 

Rowan Atkinson and Olga Kurylenko in Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

Johnny English Strikes Again

6.2

Agent Five

2018

 

Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay, Paul Whitehouse, Ray Winstone, and Charlie Cox in King of Thieves (2018)

King of Thieves

5.5

Billy 'The Fish' Lincoln

2018

 

Kit Harington in The Death & Life of John F. Donovan (2018)

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

6.1

Man in Diner

2018

 

Citizen Lane (2018)

Citizen Lane

7.7

Lord Ardilaun

2018

 

Michael Gambon, Talulah Riley, and Alex Pettyfer in The Last Witness (2018)

The Last Witness

5.6

Frank Hamilton

2018

 

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (2018)

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery

6.1

Video Game

Professor Albus Dumbledore (voice)

2018

 

Kathryn Newton, Maya Hawke, Willa Fitzgerald, and Annes Elwy in Little Women (2017)

Little Women

7.2

TV Mini Series

Mr. Laurence

2017

3 episodes

 

Paddington 2 (2017)

Paddington 2

7.8

Uncle Pastuzo (voice)

2017

 

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Mark Strong, Channing Tatum, and Taron Egerton in Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

6.7

Arthur

2017

 

Judi Dench and Ali Fazal in Victoria & Abdul (2017)

Victoria & Abdul

6.8

Lord Salisbury

2017

 

Helen McCrory in Fearless (2017)

Fearless

7.6

TV Mini Series

Sir Alastair McKinnon

2017

6 episodes

 

The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind (2017)

The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind

7.6

Video Game

The Prophet (voice)

2017

 

Gabriel Byrne, Michael Gambon, Elisabeth Moss, and David Tennant in Mad to Be Normal (2017)

Mad to Be Normal

6.0

Sydney Kotok

2017

 

Gillian Anderson, Hugh Bonneville, Manish Dayal, and Huma Qureshi in Viceroy's House (2017)

Viceroy's House

6.7

Lord Lionel 'Pug' Ismay

2017

 

Jeremy Irons, Ben Whishaw, and Tom Hiddleston in The Hollow Crown (2012)

The Hollow Crown

8.2

TV Series

Mortimer

2016

1 episode

 

Michael Gambon in Churchill's Secret (2016)

Churchill's Secret

6.8

TV Movie

Winston Churchill

2016

 

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay, Toby Jones, Bill Nighy, Bill Paterson, Daniel Mays, and Blake Harrison in Dad's Army (2016)

Dad's Army

5.2

Godfrey

2016

 

George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, and Jonah Hill in Hail, Caesar! (2016)

Hail, Caesar!

6.3

Narrator (voice)

2016

 

Rupert Graves, Michael Gambon, Ray Winstone, and Johnny Flynn in The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells (2016)

The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells

5.9

TV Mini Series

Egbert Elvesham

2016

1 episode

 

Michael Gambon, Keeley Hawes, Simon McBurney, Julia McKenzie, Rory Kinnear, Rufus Jones, and Abigail Lawrie in The Casual Vacancy (2015)

The Casual Vacancy

6.5

TV Mini Series

Howard Mollison

2015

3 episodes

 

On Angel Wings (2014)

On Angel Wings

5.1

TV Movie

Grandfather

2014

 

Paddington (2014)

Paddington

7.3

Uncle Pastuzo (voice)

2014

 

Common (2014)

Common

7.3

TV Movie

Judge

2014

 

The Elder Scrolls Online (2014)

The Elder Scrolls Online

7.5

Video Game

The Prophet (voice)

2014

 

Quirke (2013)

Quirke

6.9

TV Mini Series

Judge Garret Griffin

2014

3 episodes

 

Quartet: Deleted Scenes (2013)

Quartet: Deleted Scenes

7.4

Video

Cedric Livingston (uncredited)

2013

 

Christopher Eccleston and Rory Kinnear in Lucan (2013)

Lucan

6.9

TV Mini Series

John Burke

2013

1 episode

 

Fifty Years on Stage (2013)

Fifty Years on Stage

8.7

TV Movie

Hirst (segment "No Man's Land")

2013

 

Rufus Sewell and Hayley Atwell in Restless (2012)

Restless

7.1

TV Movie

Lord Romer

2012

 

Maggie Smith, Pauline Collins, Billy Connolly, and Tom Courtenay in Quartet (2012)

Quartet

6.8

Cedric Livingstone

2012

 

Dustin Hoffman in Luck (2011)

Luck

7.4

TV Series

Michael

2012

5 episodes

 

Karalu Miriyalu (2011)

Karalu Miriyalu

4.8

2011

 

Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, and Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

8.1

Professor Albus Dumbledore

2011

 

Rachel Weisz and Bill Nighy in Page Eight (2011)

Page Eight

6.8

TV Movie

Benedict Baron

2011

 

Comic Relief: Uptown Downstairs Abbey (2011)

Comic Relief: Uptown Downstairs Abbey

7.8

TV Movie

Narrator (uncredited)

2011

 

Bradley Walsh, Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, and Mandip Gill in Doctor Who (2005)

Doctor Who

8.6

TV Series

Kazran Sardick

Elliot Sardick

2010

1 episode

 

Children in Need (1980)

Children in Need

5.9

TV Series

Kazran Sardick

2010

1 episode

 

Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, and Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

7.7

Professor Albus Dumbledore

2010

 

Colin Firth in The King's Speech (2010)

The King's Speech

8.0

King George V

2010

 

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey (2010)

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey

8.2

Video

Albus Dumbledore

2010

 

Denzel Washington in The Book of Eli (2010)

The Book of Eli

6.8

George

2010

 

Romola Garai in Emma (2009)

Emma

8.1

TV Mini Series

Mr. Woodhouse

2009

4 episodes

 

George Clooney, Bill Murray, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, Eric Chase Anderson, and Wallace Wolodarsky in Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Fantastic Mr. Fox

7.9

Franklin Bean (voice)

2009

 

Michael Gambon, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, and Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

7.6

Professor Albus Dumbledore

2009

 

Sean Maguire in Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire (2009)

Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire

7.1

TV Series

Narrator

2009

1 episode

 

Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, and Hayley Atwell in Brideshead Revisited (2008)

Brideshead Revisited

6.7

Lord Marchmain

2008

 

Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, and Julia McKenzie in Cranford (2007)

Cranford

8.3

TV Series

Thomas Holbrook

Mr Holbrook

2007

2 episodes

 

Joe's Palace (2007)

Joe's Palace

6.8

TV Movie

Elliot Graham

2007

 

Rupert Grint, Matthew Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Bonnie Wright, and Evanna Lynch in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

7.5

Albus Dumbledore

2007

 

Damian Lewis in The Baker (2007)

The Baker

6.3

Leo

2007

 

The Alps (2007)

The Alps

7.0

Narrator

2007

 

Celebration

6.8

TV Movie

Lambert

2007

 

Danny DeVito, Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz, and Martin Freeman in The Good Night (2007)

The Good Night

5.7

Alan Weigert

2007

 

The Good Shepherd (2006)

The Good Shepherd

6.7

Dr. Fredericks

2006

 

John Duffy's Brother (2006)

John Duffy's Brother

8.1

Short

Narrator

2006

 

Romola Garai and Ioan Gruffudd in Amazing Grace (2006)

Amazing Grace

7.4

Lord Charles Fox

2006

 

Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick in The Omen (2006)

The Omen

5.5

Bugenhagen

2006

 

Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Clémence Poésy, Robert Pattinson, and Stanislav Yanevski in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

7.7

Albus Dumbledore

2005

 

Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett, Bud Cort, Anjelica Huston, Michael Gambon, and Owen Wilson in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

7.2

Oseary Drakoulias

2004

 

Daniel Craig in Layer Cake (2004)

Layer Cake

7.3

Eddie Temple

2004

 

Jeremy Irons and Annette Bening in Being Julia (2004)

Being Julia

7.0

Jimmie Langton

2004

 

Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, and Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

7.9

Albus Dumbledore

2004

 

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

6.1

Editor Paley

2004

 

Angels in America (2003)

Angels in America

8.1

TV Mini Series

Prior Walter Ancestor #1 (uncredited)

2003

2 episodes

 

Ghost Hunter (2003)

Ghost Hunter

7.4

Video Game

Hawksmoor (voice, as Sir Michael Gambon)

2003

 

Gwyneth Paltrow in Sylvia (2003)

Sylvia

6.3

Professor Thomas

2003

 

Little Wolf's Book of Badness (2003)

Little Wolf's Book of Badness

7.2

Short

Uncle Bigbad (voice, as Sir Michael Gambon)

2003

 

Kevin Costner in Open Range (2003)

Open Range

7.4

Denton Baxter

2003

 

Hugh Jackman in Standing Room Only (2003)

Standing Room Only

5.9

Short

Larry

2003

 

Michael Caine and Dylan Moran in The Actors (2003)

The Actors

5.9

Barreller

2003

 

Daniel Williams in The Lost Prince (2003)

The Lost Prince

7.7

TV Movie

Edward VII

2003

 

Gosford Park: Deleted Scenes (2002)

Gosford Park: Deleted Scenes

7.8

Video

William McCordle

2002

 

Path to War (2002)

Path to War

7.3

TV Movie

Lyndon Johnson

2002

 

Sacha Baron Cohen in Ali G Indahouse (2002)

Ali G Indahouse

6.2

Prime Minister

2002

 

Cate Blanchett in Charlotte Gray (2001)

Charlotte Gray

6.4

Levade

2001

 

Gosford Park (2001)

Gosford Park

7.2

William McCordle

2001

 

Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001)

Christmas Carol: The Movie

5.4

Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)

2001

 

High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)

High Heels and Low Lifes

6.1

Kerrigan

2001

 

Perfect Strangers (2001)

Perfect Strangers

8.0

TV Mini Series

Raymond

2001

3 episodes

 

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001)

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure

7.7

Short

Sir Ernest Shackleton (voice)

2001

 

Endgame (2000)

Endgame

7.5

TV Movie

Hamm

2000

 

Longitude (2000)

Longitude

7.8

TV Movie

John Harrison

2000

 

Michael Gambon, Pete Lee-Wilson, and Wendy Nottingham in Dead on Time (1999)

Dead on Time

4.8

Short

Maurice

1999

 

Francesca Annis, Keeley Hawes, and Justine Waddell in Wives and Daughters (1999)

Wives and Daughters

8.1

TV Mini Series

Squire Hamley

1999

4 episodes

 

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Sleepy Hollow

7.3

Baltus Van Tassel

1999

 

Russell Crowe and Al Pacino in The Insider (1999)

The Insider

7.8

Thomas Sandefur

1999

 

A Monkey's Tale (1999)

A Monkey's Tale

5.7

Master Martin (English version, voice)

1999

 

Jane Birkin, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Keeley Hawes, Fiona Shaw, and Lambert Wilson in The Last September (1999)

The Last September

6.0

Sir Richard Naylor

1999

 

Plunkett & Macleane (1999)

Plunkett & Macleane

6.3

Lord Gibson

1999

 

Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)

Dancing at Lughnasa

6.3

Father Jack Mundy

1998

 

Jodhi May, Polly Walker, and Dominic West in The Gambler (1997)

The Gambler

6.3

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1997

 

Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Elliott, and Linus Roache in The Wings of the Dove (1997)

The Wings of the Dove

7.1

Kate's Father

1997

 

The Willows in Winter (1996)

The Willows in Winter

7.3

TV Movie

Badger (voice)

1996

 

Samson and Delilah (1996)

Samson and Delilah

5.8

TV Mini Series

Re Hamun

1996

 

Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly (1996)

Mary Reilly

5.8

Mary's Father

1996

 

Michael Caine in Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)

Midnight in Saint Petersburg

4.9

TV Movie

Alex

1996

 

The Wind in the Willows (1995)

The Wind in the Willows

7.4

TV Movie

Badger (voice)

1995

 

Mia Sara, Michael Caine, and Jason Connery in Bullet to Beijing (1995)

Bullet to Beijing

5.4

TV Movie

Alex

1995

 

The Innocent Sleep (1995)

The Innocent Sleep

5.4

Det. Insp. Matheson

1995

 

Sonia Braga and Michael Gambon in Two Deaths (1995)

Two Deaths

6.3

Daniel Pavenic

1995

 

Nothing Personal (1995)

Nothing Personal

6.8

Leonard

1995

 

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

6.0

Sir George

1994

 

Albert Finney in A Man of No Importance (1994)

A Man of No Importance

6.7

Ivor J. Carney

1994

 

Faith (1994)

Faith

7.0

TV Mini Series

Peter John Moreton

1994

4 episodes

 

The Browning Version (1994)

The Browning Version

7.2

Dr. Frobisher

1994

 

Valeria Golino and Dana Carvey in Clean Slate (1994)

Clean Slate

5.7

Cornell

1994

 

Joan Collins and Michael Gambon in Mama's Back (1993)

Mama's Back

8.3

TV Movie

Ian Hamilton

1993

 

Performance (1991)

Performance

6.6

TV Series

Archie Rice

1993

1 episode

 

Maigret (1992)

Maigret

7.8

TV Series

Chief Inspector Maigret

Chief Inspector Jules Maigret

1992–1993

12 episodes

 

Robin Williams in Toys (1992)

Toys

5.1

Lt. General Leland Zevo

1992

 

George Cole in Minder (1979)

Minder

7.8

TV Series

Tommy Hambury

1991

1 episode

 

Mobsters (1991)

Mobsters

5.9

Don Faranzano

1991

 

The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991)

The Storyteller: Greek Myths

8.1

TV Series

The Storyteller

1991

4 episodes

 

Blood Royal: William the Conqueror (1990)

Blood Royal: William the Conqueror

6.5

TV Movie

William I

1990

 

The Heat of the Day (1989)

The Heat of the Day

6.4

TV Movie

Harrison

1989

 

About Face (1989)

About Face

6.6

TV Series

Trevor

1989

1 episode

 

A Dry White Season (1989)

A Dry White Season

7.0

Magistrate

1989

 

Helen Mirren in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

7.5

Albert

1989

 

MuppeTelevision (1987)

MuppeTelevision

8.2

TV Series

Ultragorgon (voice)

1989

1 episode

 

Ione Skye and Dexter Fletcher in The Rachel Papers (1989)

The Rachel Papers

6.0

Doctor Knowd

1989

 

Mountain Language (1988)

Mountain Language

7.1

TV Short

Sergeant

1988

 

Missing Link (1988)

Missing Link

6.1

Narrator (voice)

1988

 

Charlotte Rampling in Paris by Night (1988)

Paris by Night

6.0

Gerald Paige

1988

 

Theatre Night (1985)

Theatre Night

7.2

TV Series

Pastor Manders

1987

1 episode

 

Terence Alexander, Sean Arnold, Annette Badland, Deborah Grant, Lindsay Heath, Celia Imrie, David Kershaw, Geoffrey Leesley, Thérèse Liotard, Nancy Mansfield, Tony Melody, John Nettles, Cécile Paoli, John Telfer, and Mela White in Bergerac (1981)

Bergerac

6.8

TV Series

Jarvis McLeod

1987

1 episode

 

The Singing Detective (1986)

The Singing Detective

8.6

TV Mini Series

Philip Marlow

1986

6 episodes

 

Absurd Person Singular (1985)

Absurd Person Singular

8.6

TV Movie

Geoffrey Jackson

1985

 

Turtle Diary (1985)

Turtle Diary

6.9

George Fairbairn (turtle keeper)

1985

 

The Holy Experiment

TV Movie

Don Pedro de Miura

1985

 

Tropical Moon Over Dorking

TV Movie

Bill

1985

 

Michael Gambon and Robin McCallum in Oscar (1985)

Oscar

6.9

TV Series

Oscar Wilde

1985

3 episodes

 

ITV Playhouse (1967)

ITV Playhouse

7.0

TV Series

Charles Battle

1982

1 episode

 

La ronde (1982)

La ronde

TV Movie

The Husband

1982

 

Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

Tales of the Unexpected

7.6

TV Series

Andrew

1980

1 episode

 

Richard Briers and Michael Gambon in The Other One (1977)

The Other One

7.8

TV Series

Brian Bryant

1977–1979

13 episodes

 

Premiere (1977)

Premiere

TV Series

Kenny

1978

1 episode

 

Play for Love

TV Series

John

1978

1 episode

 

BBC Play of the Month (1965)

BBC Play of the Month

6.9

TV Series

Trigorin

Lt. Cmdr. Rogers

Theseus ...

1967–1978

4 episodes

 

Chalk and Cheese (1977)

Chalk and Cheese

5.6

TV Series

1977

 

Ian Hendry, Carole Mowlam, and Maureen Pryor in The Sunday Drama (1977)

The Sunday Drama

TV Series

David Patton

1977

1 episode

 

Play for Today (1970)

Play for Today

7.8

TV Series

Piers

Robin

Max

1972–1976

3 episodes

 

ITV Sunday Night Drama (1959)

ITV Sunday Night Drama

7.9

TV Series

Adam

1976

1 episode

 

Centre Play (1973)

Centre Play

7.5

TV Series

Duncan Harrison

1976

1 episode

 

The Secret Agent

TV Movie

Tom Ossipon

1975

 

Masquerade

TV Series

Stewart

1974

1 episode

 

Peter Cushing, Michael Gambon, Tom Chadbon, Marlene Clark, Anton Diffring, Charles Gray, Calvin Lockhart, and Ciaran Madden in The Beast Must Die (1974)

The Beast Must Die

5.6

Jan

1974

 

Second City Firsts (1973)

Second City Firsts

5.8

TV Series

John

1974

1 episode

 

Anouska Hempel and Anton Rodgers in Zodiac (1974)

Zodiac

7.0

TV Series

Reuben Keiser

1974

1 episode

 

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973)

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

7.9

TV Series

Major Rolfe

1973

1 episode

 

ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969)

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

6.5

TV Series

Brother Kevin

1973

1 episode

 

Six Days of Justice (1972)

Six Days of Justice

7.6

TV Series

Mr.Golding

1973

1 episode

 

Arthur of the Britons (1972)

Arthur of the Britons

7.6

TV Series

Roland

1973

1 episode

 

Special Branch (1969)

Special Branch

7.4

TV Series

Herr Muller

1973

1 episode

 

Vanessa Redgrave, Jeremy Brett, and Annette Crosbie in A Picture of Katherine Mansfield (1973)

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

8.9

TV Series

Harry

1973

1 episode

 

Menace (1970)

Menace

8.2

TV Series

Ellis

1973

1 episode

 

Donald Pleasence and Betsy Blair in Love Story (1963)

Love Story

7.5

TV Series

Paul

1973

1 episode

 

Nothing But the Night (1973)

Nothing But the Night

5.5

Inspector Grant

1973

 

Softly Softly: Task Force (1969)

Softly Softly: Task Force

7.7

TV Series

Cranley

1972

1 episode

 

Phyllis Calvert and Jack Hedley in Kate (1970)

Kate

6.0

TV Series

Edward

1972

1 episode

 

Rupert Davies in The Man Outside (1972)

The Man Outside

7.4

TV Series

Ralph Kenward

1972

1 episode

 

The Challengers

TV Series

John Killane

1972

5 episodes

 

Eyeless in Gaza

7.5

TV Series

Mark Staithes

1971

5 episodes

 

Confession

TV Series

Mr. Tennent

1970

1 episode

 

Michael Gambon and Iain Cuthbertson in The Borderers (1968)

The Borderers

8.2

TV Series

Gavin Ker

1968–1970

26 episodes

 

Patrick O'Connell and Joanna Van Gyseghem in Fraud Squad (1969)

Fraud Squad

7.1

TV Series

Rex Lucien

1969

1 episode

 

Alfred Burke in Public Eye (1965)

Public Eye

8.5

TV Series

P.C. Thwaites (as Mike Gambon)

1968

1 episode

 

Much Ado About Nothing

7.1

TV Movie

Watchman #4

1967

 

Stratford Johns in Softly Softly (1966)

Softly Softly

7.0

TV Series

Pete Lucas

1967

1 episode

 

Othello (1965)

Othello

7.0

Senator

Soldier

Cypriot (as Mike Gambon)

1965