 Rotund and much in demand since his household-name-making role as the policeman-turned-gourmet chef in TV's Pie in the Sky (BBC, 1994-97), Richard Griffiths had been with the RSC for ten years and trundling along in film character roles since the mid 1970s - one recalls his snubbing Michael Palin in A Private Function (d. Malcolm Mowbray, 1984) and his cumbersome lechery in Withnail and I (d. Bruce Robinson, 1986). Now sought for international films such as Sleepy Hollow (US/Germany, d. Tim Burton, 1999) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK/US, d. Chris Columbus, 2001), he still delights viewers in such lethally witty studies as the time-serving gourmand politician in TV's In the Red (BBC, 1998). Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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