Michael Gambon

Gambon grew up in north London in a family headed by an engineer father and a seamstress mother. He attended St Aloysius' College in Highgate, left school in his teens, and trained as a toolmaker before turning to acting. He later studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

After a first professional engagement in 1962, he joined the National Theatre in 1963 and spent several years in supporting roles under Laurence Olivier. A major stage success came in 1980 as the title character in Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo. He won Olivier Awards for A Chorus of Disapproval, A View from the Bridge, and Man of the Moment.

On television, his performance as Philip Marlow in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986) won him a BAFTA, and he later earned further BAFTA TV Awards for Wives and Daughters, Longitude, and Perfect Strangers. He also played the title role in the series Maigret. His film work included The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Gosford Park, and The King's Speech, in which he played King George V. In 2004 he succeeded Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and played the role through the final film.

Gambon was knighted in 1998 for services to drama. He married Anne Miller in 1962, and they had a son, Fergus. He died in 2023, at 82, after a bout of pneumonia.

Michael Gambon was born on October 19, 1940. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), October 19, 1940 corresponds to the Three of Clubs, making the Three of Clubs his Birth Card.

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