This block contains the information about Michael Gambon and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

Michael Gambon’s father was the commander of the British army, till the end of the Second World War, they lived in Killarney, later his father was sent with a mission to London, and that is how the all family moves to the capital of the United Kingdom. Since he was a little boy he was educated in a strict atmosphere of a discipline Mike was in a catholic college, he left studying and went working to a tools factory where he worked almost ten years. When the factory was closed he went to the “Unity” theater and started working there. Later he started performing on the Royal National Theater, and worked with such outstanding producers like: Lawrence Oliver, Zeffirelli and many others. He is in the cinema since 1965, which was a crucial year for him, because while performing Othello’s role in front of the public in the theater he was noticed by a cinema producer and invited to play a small role in the cinema. And at some point he got stuck in playing or minor roles, or a very small once mostly in the low budget movies, for twenty years. But everything changed when twenty years later he performed Oscar Wilde’s role, in the movies about him. For this role he got a lot of awards and nominations. Nowadays he is known due to performing Dumbledore’s role in the movies about the young magician Harry Potter.

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Here you can learn about the movies Michael Gambon acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Professor Albus Dumbledore	$250M	2009	$77.8M	$302M
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - Professor Albus Dumbledore	$250M	2010	$125M	$292M
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Albus Dumbledore	$150M	2005	$102M	$290M
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore	$150M	2007	$77.1M	$292M
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Albus Dumbledore	$130M	2004	$93.7M	$249M
The Insider - Thomas Sandefur	$90M	1999	$6.71M	$29M
The Good Shepherd - Dr. Fredericks	$90M	2006	$14.1M	$59.9M
The Book of Eli - George	$80M	2010	$38.4M	$94.8M
Sleepy Hollow - Baltus Van Tassel	$65M	1999	$30.1M	$101M
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Oseary Drakoulias	$50M	2004	$113K	$24M
Mary Reilly - Mary's Father	$47M	1996		$5.6M
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - Editor Paley	$40M	2004	$15.6M	$37.8M
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Franklin Bean (voice)	$40M	2009	$266K	$21M
Open Range - Denton Baxter	$26M	2003	$14M	$58.3M
The Omen - Bugenhagen	$25M	2006	$16M	$54.6M
Mobsters - Don Salvatore Faranzano	$23M	1991		$20.2M
Brideshead Revisited - Lord Marchmain	$20M	2008	$340K	$6.41M
Being Julia - Jimmie Langton	$18M	2004	$101K	$7.74M
The Good Night - Alan Weigert	$15M	2007	$12.4K	$20.4K
Gosford Park - William McCordle	$15M	2001	$1.57M	$41.3M