Gambon began his acting on the stage in the early 1960s and later moved into TV and film.
Gambon played down the praise for his performance and said he simply played himself "with a stuck-on beard and a long robe".
Michael John Gambon was born on Oct. 19, 1940, in Dublin to a seamstress mother and an engineer father.
Gambon left school aged 15 to begin an engineering apprenticeship and by 21 he was fully qualified.
He revealed in an episode of "The Late Late Show" in Ireland that he convinced his mother he was friends with the pope.
Persons:
Michael Gambon, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Laurence Olivier, Gambon, Peter Greenaway's, Cook, King George V, Tom Hooper's, Dumbledore, Richard Harris, Michael John Gambon, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Olivier, Derek Jacobi, Maggie Smith, Galileo, John Dexter's, Robert De Niro, Anne Miller, Philippa Hart, Sarah Young, William Schomberg, Rosalba O'Brien
Organizations:
PA Media, Camden Town, Herald, National Theatre, Thomson
Locations:
Irish, Dublin, London, American, British, Ireland