According to his relatives, actor Sir Michael Gambon passed away yesterday at the age of 82.
In six of the eight Harry Potter films, he played Professor Albus Dumbledore, for which he was best known.
The Dublin-born actor worked in theatre, film, television, and radio over the course of six decades. He received four Baftas.
After a battle with pneumonia, his wife Lady Gambon and son Fergus said their "beloved husband and father" passed away peacefully in the hospital with his loved ones by his side.
Sir Michael's family moved to London when he was a little child, although he made his stage debut in Ireland in a performance of Othello in Dublin in 1962.
When he became a founding member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre playing company in London, his acting career took off. He eventually went on to win three Olivier Awards as a result of his performances in National Theatre shows.
Leading the tributes to her "naughty but very, very funny" friend was Dame Helen Mirren, another performer.
He kept her "constantly in laughter" while they were on stage in Antony and Cleopatra and throughout the filming of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover in 1989, according to Dame Helen.
They had discussed ageing and how it affected their profession, she said, adding: Sir Michael, according to her, was "utterly realistic" about his situation.I completely see why he found it harder and harder to recall his lines, but it kind of drove him away from the theatre, she said.wonderful con artist
He played French investigator Jules Maigret in the ITV series Maigret. He gained fame for his role as Philip Marlow in the BBC adaptation of Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective.
Sir Michael replaced the vacuum left by the late actor in the well-known Harry Potter series, which is based on JK Rowling's novels and has Dumbledore as its headmaster, after Richard Harris passed away in 2003.
The World at One on BBC Radio 4 quoted Fiona Shaw, who played Petunia Dursley in the films, as saying: "He changed his profession brilliantly and never judged what he was doing, he just played."
The woman said, "With text, there was no one like him." She declared that the only way she would ever remember him was as "a trickster, just a brilliant, magnificent trickster." Anything was possible for him.
