Biography
Sir Michael John Gambon was an Irish-English actor. 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 and four BAFTA TV 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, w...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
as Kazran Sardick (archive footage)
Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially sho...

Judy
2019
as Bernard Delfont
Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of ...

Cordelia
2019
as Mr. Moses
Cordelia ia a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a c...

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2019
as Man in Diner
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as ...

Johnny English Strikes Again
2018
as Agent Five
Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only...

King of Thieves
2018
as Billy 'The Fish' Lincoln
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in Britis...

Citizen Lane
2018
as Lord Ardilaun
Citizen Lane is an innovative mix of documentary and drama that delivers a vivid and compelling portrait of Hugh Lane, one of the most fascinating and...

The Last Witness
2018
as Frank Hamilton
An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during World War II, a secret kept hidden for far too many yea...

Paddington 2
2017
as Uncle Pastuzo (voice)
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017
as Arthur
When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency...

Victoria & Abdul
2017
as Lord Salisbury
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Mad to Be Normal
2017
as Sidney Kotok
The story of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London in the 1960s.

Viceroy's House
2017
as General Hastings Ismay
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the ...

Churchill's Secret
2016
as Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.

Dad's Army
2016
as Private Godfrey
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German ...

Hail, Caesar!
2016
as Narrator (voice)
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
as Self (archive footage)
The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first tentative steps on the road to success. Long before they w...

Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe...

On Angel Wings
2014
as Grandfather
One cold Christmas night, an old shepherd recounts the magical story of how he came to be the first visitor to the new born Christ child - ahead of th...

Paddington
2014
as Uncle Pastuzo (voice)
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, w...

Common
2014
as Judge
Multi-award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern's brand new film based on the UK's controversial joint enterprise law. Jimmy McGovern's gritty drama stars ...

Lucan
2013
as John Burke
Drama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being accused of murdering his children's nanny.

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Hirst
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best Brit...

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

Quartet
2012
as Cedric Livingston
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they t...

London: The Modern Babylon
2012
as Self (voice)
London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self
BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews was given unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes of the final days of the final two Harry Potter ...

Page Eight
2011
as Benedict Baron
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Albus Dumbledore
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wiza...

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
2010
as Old Kazran / Elliot Sardick
Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely...

The King's Speech
2010
as King George V
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Albus Dumbledore
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

The Book of Eli
2010
as George
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankin...

Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Franklin Bean (voice)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with t...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Albus Dumbledore
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie wi...

Brideshead Revisited
2008
as Lord Marchmain
Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World W...

Joe's Palace
2007
as Elliot Graham
A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Albus Dumbledore
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Le...

The Alps - Climb of Your Life
2007
as Narrator (voice)
In 1966, John Harlin II died while attempting Europe's most difficult climb, the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. 40 years later, his son John ...

Celebration
2007
as Lambert
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an ad...

The Baker
2007
as Leo
Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first time, he escapes the city to avoid the wrath of hi...

The Good Night
2007
as Alan Weigert
Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his...

The Good Shepherd
2006
as Dr. Fredericks
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young ...

John Duffy's Brother
2006
as Narrator
A man who thinks he is a train.

Amazing Grace
2006
as Lord Charles Fox
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, bu...

The Omen
2006
as Bugenhagen
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Albus Dumbledore
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Tri...

Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
2005
as Self
Documentary created by Matthew Gray Gubler during, and about, his time on the set of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. (Released in 2005)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
as Oseary Drakoulias
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is...

Stories of Lost Souls
2004
as Larry
Seven (or six - depending on the version) short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to overcome.

Layer Cake
2004
as Eddie Temple
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime an...

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2004
as Paley
When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has ...

Being Julia
2004
as Jimmie Langton
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant...

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
as Self
A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey of making them.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
as Albus Dumbledore
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts...

Little Wolf's Book of Badness
2003
as Uncle Bigbad (voice)
He washes his paws, brushes his teeth and goes to bed early. He is packed off to Uncle Bigbad's Cunning College, where he will learn the Nine Rules of...

Path to War
2003
as Lyndon Johnson
A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside t...

Top Gear: Back in the Fast Lane
2003
as Self
A special containing all the best bits from the brand new first and second series of the nation’s favourite motoring show presented by outspoken pundi...

Sylvia
2003
as Professor Thomas
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

Open Range
2003
as Denton Baxter
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

Deep Blue
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinematic rollercoaster ride for all ages, Deep Blue uses ...

The Actors
2003
as Barreller
During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his charac...

The Making of 'Gosford Park'
2002
as Self
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes in...

Ali G Indahouse
2002
as Prime Minister
Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, instead of bringing the Prim...

Charlotte Gray
2001
as Levade
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working...

Gosford Park
2001
as William McCordle
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, ea...

Christmas Carol: The Movie
2001
as Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)
Animated version of the classic Charles Dickens story. Warned by the ghost of his old business partner Marley that his sins would lead to punishment i...

Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love
2001
as Self
A portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments by their friends and family.

High Heels and Low Lifes
2001
as Kerrigan
A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers f...

Endgame
2000
as Hamm
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins....

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow.

The Last September
2000
as Sir Richard Naylor
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, a...

Longitude
2000
as John Harrison
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Sleepy Hollow
1999
as Baltus Van Tassel
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitat...

The Insider
1999
as Thomas Sandefur
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Plunkett & MacLeane
1999
as Lord Gibson
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: T...

Dead on Time
1999
as Maurice Silverman
It's the last fifteen minutes of 1999 and Steve Armitage plans to leave his mark by becoming the first suicide of the new millennium. However, complic...

Dancing at Lughnasa
1998
as Father Jack Mundy
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
A Roll of the Dice: The Capeman on Broadway
1998
as Narrator (voice)
A made for TV documentary about the creation of Paul Simon and Derek Walcott's controversial and ultimately flop of a musical, "The Capeman". Explores...

The Gambler
1997
as Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him ...

The Wings of the Dove
1997
as Lionel Croy
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's dece...

The Willows in Winter
1996
as Badger
Hailed as the "rightful heir" to "The Wind in the Willows", William Horwood's critically acclaimed sequel comes to magical life in this beautifully an...

Samson and Delilah
1996
as King Hamun
Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.

Nothing Personal
1996
as Leonard
A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Ken...

Midnight in Saint Petersburg
1996
as Alex
Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel ...

Two Deaths
1996
as Daniel Pavenic
A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.

Mary Reilly
1996
as Mary’s Father
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

The Innocent Sleep
1996
as Det. Insp. Matheson
Inspired by the 1982 Roberto Calvi Affair in which an Italian banker was found hanging from a bridge across the River Thames, the story follows Alan, ...

The Wind in the Willows
1995
as Badger
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, ...

Bullet to Beijing
1995
as Alexei
When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Pete...

A Man of No Importance
1994
as Ivor J. Carney
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and ...

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
1994
as Sir George
Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighbo...

The Browning Version
1994
as Dr. Frobisher
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being...

Clean Slate
1994
as Cornell
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle...

The Entertainer
1993
as Archie Rice
Adaptation of John Osborne's play.

Toys
1992
as General Zevo
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the op...

Mobsters
1991
as Don Salvatore Faranzano
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime.....

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989
as Albert Spica
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

A Dry White Season
1989
as Magistrate
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy w...

The Heat of the Day
1989
as Harrison
In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to...

The Rachel Papers
1989
as Doctor Knowd
Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help...

Paris by Night
1989
as Gerald Paige
Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned b...

Monster Maker
1989
as Ultragorgon
A young boy wants to work with a famous creature/fx man but gets more than he bargained when one of the creatures, The Ultra-Gorgon, takes him under h...

Monster Maker
1989
as Ultragorgon(voice)
A young boy wants to work with a famous creature/fx man but gets more than he bargained when one of the creatures, The Ultra-Gorgon, takes him under h...

Mountain Language
1988
as Sergeant
Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no longer...

Missing Link
1988
as Narrator (voice)
A million years ago in Africa: the last of the ape-humans is on flight from the humans, who killed the rest of his clan. Alone, seeking others of his ...

Ghosts
1987
as Pastor Manders
Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a mem...

Turtle Diary
1985
as George Fairbairn
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd,...

Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985
As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal involving Lord Alfred Douglas and his lordship's pol...

Absurd Person Singular
1985
as Geoffrey
A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated t...
The Breadwinner
1982
as Charles Battle
Charles Battle has been 'hammered' in the London Stock Exchange, to the point where he may be bankrupted.

One of These Nights I'm Gonna Get an Early Day
1978
as Kenny
When Mal Leyton's modern jazz quintet sets out to play an unlikely gig at a college concert, the musicians really need their legendary sense of humour...
The Seagull
1978
as Trigorin
A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man o...
French Without Tears
1976
as Lt Cmdr Rogers
The romantic and comic adventures of a group of Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.

Tiptoe Through the Tulips
1976
as Piers
Friends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends, Rita and Piers, neither of whom are particularly keen.

In the Labyrinth
1976
as Duncan Harrison
After 30 years apart, a man is reunited with his mother, who resides on a psychiatric ward.

The Other Woman
1976
as Robin
A lesbian artist creates a love triangle when she moves in with a closeted teenage girl and the man in her pre-arranged heterosexual marriage.

The Secret Agent
1975
A bomb-throwing incident in 1905 sets off a train of events which ends in a murder and a suicide.

Bold Face: Condensed
1974
as John
' Waiting for pages half my life ' - but this time the printer is drunk and the editor has a deadline to meet.

The Beast Must Die
1974
as Jan Jarmokowski
Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the big...

The Catholics
1973
as Brother Kevin
Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has elimin...

Nothing But the Night
1973
as Insp. Grant
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus acci...

Cows
1972
as Max
Geraldine, a psychiatric social worker, has an accident whilst in the country. The inhabitants of a nearby house come out to help her and she discover...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1971
as Theseus
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

Romeo and Juliet
1967
as Gregory
BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

Much Ado About Nothing
1967
as Other Watchman
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in w...

Othello
1965
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.

Othello
1965
as Senators-Soldiers-Cypriots
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.