Richard Griffiths, the versatile British actor who played the boy wizard's unsympathetic Uncle Vernon in the "Harry Potter" movies, has died. He was 65. Agent Simon Beresford announced Friday that Griffiths died a day earlier of complications following heart surgery at University Hospital in Coventry, central England.He paid tribute to Griffiths as "a remarkable man and one of our greatest an...
'harry Potter's' Uncle Vernon, Richard Griffiths, Dies At 65
Jill Lawless, NBC News
Fri, 03/29/2013 - 6:16am
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