A family statement said "we are devastated to announce the loss of Sir Michael Gambon", adding: "Michael died peacefully in hospital with his wife Anne and son Fergus at his bedside, following a bout of pneumonia."
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00:05 Actor Sir Michael Gambon has died peacefully in hospital aged 82, according to his family.
00:11 He is best known for playing Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore in a number of the Harry Potter
00:16 films.
00:17 Sir Michael began his acting career more than 60 years ago and was one of the original members
00:23 of the Royal National Theatre alongside Laurence Olivier.
00:27 He also played French detective Jules Maigret in the ITV series Maigret as well as starring
00:33 in the BBC series The Singing Detective.
00:36 A statement issued on behalf of Lady Gambon and his son Fergus Gambon said "We are devastated
00:42 to announce the loss of Sir Michael Gambon."
00:46 Beloved husband and father Michael died peacefully in hospital with his wife Anne and son Fergus
00:51 at his bedside following a bout of pneumonia.
00:54 Sir Michael was a decorated and accomplished star of stage and screen winning Oliviers,
00:59 Baftas and Emmys in his six decades long career.
01:03 He made his acting debut in a production of Othello in Dublin in 1962 quickly joining
01:09 the National Theatre in London and going on to work on stages around the UK in New York
01:14 and Germany.
01:16 Othello was also his first film in 1965.
01:20 He went on to star in beloved movies such as Gosford Park, Sleepy Hollow and the Paddington
01:25 films.
01:27 But it was the Harry Potter films that widely introduced Sir Michael to modern audiences
01:31 when he replaced Richard Harris as the Hogwarts headteacher Albus Dumbledore in the franchise's
01:37 third outing.
01:39 Image David Tennant, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon and Daniel Radcliffe
01:44 in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
01:47 Pick Warner Bros.
01:50 Image Michael Gambon with his Harry Potter co-stars.
01:54 Pick AP.
01:56 More recently Sir Michael appeared in a Dad's Army reboot, Sky Atlantic's Fortitude and
02:01 the biographical film about Judy Garland.
02:05 As well as his career on stage and screen he also voiced the Prophet in the Elder Scrolls
02:09 video games.
02:11 The Harry Potter social media account reacted to Sir Michael's death writing on ex-formerly
02:16 Twitter "We are incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Sir Michael Gambon.
02:21 He brought immeasurable joy to Harry Potter fans from all over the world with his humour,
02:26 kindness and grace.
02:28 We will forever hold his memory in our hearts."
02:31 James Phelps, who played Fred Weasley in the films, left his own memories of Sir Michael
02:36 writing "He was always very funny and very welcoming" explaining a moment while working
02:41 on the sixth film where he offered him some notes on another show he was doing.
02:46 Twitter.
02:48 Once.
02:50 Another Harry Potter co-star, Fiona Shaw, who played Petunia Dursley, said she will
02:54 remember Sir Michael as a trickster.
02:57 She told the BBC "I will think of him as a trickster, just brilliant, magnificent trickster,
03:03 but with text, there was nothing like him, he could do anything.
03:07 He did once say to me in a car, 'I know I go on a lot about this and that, but actually
03:12 in the end, there is only acting.'
03:15 I think he was always pretending that he didn't take it seriously, but he took it profoundly
03:19 seriously I think."
03:22 Former Top Presenter Gerald J. Jerrison was among the first to leave tributes to the actor
03:26 writing "I'm so sad to hear that Michael has died."
03:35 "He was the funniest actor I've ever worked with," he then wrote.
03:44 My lunch breaks on Dad's Army were spent wanting to hear story after story from him.
03:50 A phenomenal actor.
03:51 "I'm so sad to hear that Michael has died."
03:52 "He was the funniest actor I've ever worked with."
03:53 "I'm so sad to hear that Michael has died."
03:53 "I'm so sad to hear that Michael has died."
03:58 "I'm so sad to hear that Michael has died."