Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths (b. 1947) is a British actor best known for playing Uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films. Other film credits inclde King Ralph (with John Goodman), Guarding Tess, The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (with Leslie Nielsen), and Sleepy Hollow. He provided the voice of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. On BBC radio, he replaced Richard Vernon as Slartibartfast in the final Hitchhiker'sinstallments, and starred as P.G. Wodehouse's Mr. Mulliner in four series of short story adaptations.