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Author Topic: R.I.P Richard Griffith Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-01-2013 02:24 PM                        British actor, Richard Griffith passed away at age 65. He had a very illustrious career and is best known as Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter films. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-01-2013 05:29 PM                        When I read this thread I thought you meant the Richard Griffith who helped Iris Barry found The Museum of Modern Art's film archive in the 1940s, and carried on an expletive-laden correspondence with Paul Rotha (of which edited and heavily censored versions have been published, but the originals - Rotha's copies are in the UCLA Library's special collections department - are a challenge to read without bursting out laughing - not a sitution you want to find yourself in when in a library's reading room!) over several decades. Hang on a moment - he must have been over 100, I thought. He would have been, if it was that Griffith...  |  IP: Logged

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