Actor Sir Michael Gambon has died peacefully in hospital aged 82, in response to his household.

He is greatest identified for taking part in Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore in plenty of the Harry Potter movies.

Sir Michael started his performing profession greater than 60 years in the past, and was one of many authentic members of the Royal National Theatre alongside Laurence Olivier.

He additionally performed French detective Jules Maigret within the ITV sequence Maigret, in addition to starring within the BBC sequence, The Singing Detective.

An announcement issued on behalf of Lady Gambon and his son Fergus Gambon mentioned: “We are devastated to announce the loss of Sir Michael Gambon.

“Beloved husband and father, Michael died peacefully in hospital together with his spouse Anne and son Fergus at his bedside, following a bout of pneumonia.”

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Sir Michael was a embellished and completed star of stage and display screen, successful Oliviers, BAFTAs and Emmys in his six-decades-long profession.

He made his performing debut in a manufacturing of Othello in Dublin in 1962, rapidly becoming a member of the National Theatre in London, and occurring to work on levels across the UK, in New York and Germany.

Othello was additionally his first movie in 1965. He went on to star in beloved motion pictures corresponding to Gosford Park, Sleepy Hollow and the Paddington movies.

But it was the Harry Potter movies that broadly launched Sir Michael to fashionable audiences when he changed Richard Harris because the Hogwarts headteacher Albus Dumbledore within the franchise’s third outing.

More just lately, Sir Michael appeared in a Dad’s Army reboot, Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude and the biographical movie about Judy Garland.

As properly as his profession on stage and display screen, he additionally voiced The Prophet within the Elder Scrolls video video games.

The Harry Potter social media account reacted to Sir Michael’s dying, writing on X, previously Twitter: “We are incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Sir Michael Gambon.

“He introduced immeasurable pleasure to Harry Potter followers from all around the world together with his humour, kindness and beauty. We will ceaselessly maintain his reminiscence in our hearts.”

James Phelps, who played Fred Weasley in the films, left his own memories of Sir Michael, writing he was always “very humorous” and “very welcoming”, explaining a second whereas engaged on the sixth movie the place he supplied him some notes on one other present he was doing.

Another Harry Potter co-star, Fiona Shaw, who performed Petunia Dursley, mentioned she is going to keep in mind Sir Michael as a “trickster”.

She instructed the BBC: “I will think of him as a trickster, just brilliant, magnificent trickster, but with text, there was nothing like him, he could do anything.

“He did as soon as say to me in a automobile ‘I do know I’m going on lots about this and that, however really in the long run, there’s solely performing’. I believe he was all the time pretending that he did not take it critically, however he took it profoundly critically, I believe.”

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Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson was among the many first to go away tributes to the actor, writing: “I’m so sad to hear that Michael Gambon has died.

“He was massively amusing, and such an incredible visitor, we even named a nook after him.”

Inbetweeners actor Blake Harrison wrote: “The funniest actor I’ve ever labored with. My lunch breaks on Dad’s Army have been spent wanting to listen to story after story from him. An outstanding actor.”