Michael Gambon, British Stage Legend and Dumbledore in the ‘Harry Potter’ Movies, Dies at 82

Michael Gambon, a protégé of Laurence Olivier and monster of the English stage who depicted Hogwarts dean Albus Dumbledore, obviously with little exertion, in the last six Harry Potter motion pictures, has passed on. He was 82.

"The Incomparable Gambon," as Ralph Richardson once called him, passed on "calmly in clinic with his significant other Anne and child Fergus at his bedside, following an episode of pneumonia," as per a family explanation gave Thursday by a marketing specialist.

Among the principal gathering of entertainers enrolled by Olivier for the Public Venue Organization in the mid 1960s, Gambon, a Dublin local, was selected multiple times for an Olivier Grant, winning in 1986 and '90 for Alan Ayckbourn's A Melody of Dissatisfaction and Man Existing apart from everything else, separately, and in 1988 for Arthur Mill operator's A View From the Scaffold.