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| birth date = [[19 October (people)|19 October]] [[1940 (people)|1940]] | | birth date = [[19 October (people)|19 October]] [[1940 (people)|1940]] | ||
| death date = [[ | | death date = [[27 September (people)|27 September]] [[2023 (people)|2023]] | ||
| job title = [[Actor]] | | job title = [[Actor]] | ||
| role = [[Kazran Sardick]], [[Elliot Sardick]] | | role = [[Kazran Sardick]], [[Elliot Sardick]] | ||
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}}'''Sir Michael Gambon, CBE''' ([[19 October (people)|19 October]] [[1940 (people)|1940]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/showbiz/potter_actors/newsid_2786000/2786671.stm|title=Michael Gambon (Dumbledore)|date of source=31 October 2002|website name=CBBC Newsround|accessdate=2 December 2018}}</ref>–[[ | }}'''Sir Michael Gambon, CBE''' ([[19 October (people)|19 October]] [[1940 (people)|1940]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/showbiz/potter_actors/newsid_2786000/2786671.stm|title=Michael Gambon (Dumbledore)|date of source=31 October 2002|website name=CBBC Newsround|accessdate=2 December 2018}}</ref>–[[27 September (people)|27 September]] [[2023 (people)|2023]]<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/sep/28/michael-gambon-obituary]</ref>) was an [[Ireland|Irish]]-born British actor who worked in theatre, television and film. He played both [[Kazran Sardick|Kazran]] and his father [[Elliot Sardick]] in ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]''. | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
At the age of eighteen, Gambon entered drama school at the {{w|Royal Academy of Dramatic Art}} in London. He studied for three years, receiving a BA in Classical Acting. Gambon built a very solid CV whilst at RADA, including the works of [[William Shakespeare]] and {{w|Anton Chekhov}}. While at RADA, age nineteen, he joined the Unity Theatre in King's Cross. Five years later he wrote a letter to Micheál MacLiammóir, the Irish theatre impresario who ran Dublin's Gate Theatre. It was accompanied by a CV describing a rich and wholly imaginary | At the age of eighteen, Gambon entered drama school at the {{w|Royal Academy of Dramatic Art}} in London. He studied for three years, receiving a BA in Classical Acting. Gambon built a very solid CV whilst at RADA, including the works of [[William Shakespeare]] and {{w|Anton Chekhov}}. While at RADA, age nineteen, he joined the Unity Theatre in King's Cross. Five years later he wrote a letter to Micheál MacLiammóir, the Irish theatre impresario who ran Dublin's Gate Theatre. It was accompanied by a CV describing a rich and wholly imaginary theater career – and he was taken on. | ||
In the mid 1990s, he was one of many names put forward for the part of the [[Eighth Doctor]].<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/tvm.html</ref> | In the mid 1990s, he was one of many names put forward for the part of the [[Eighth Doctor]].<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/tvm.html</ref> | ||
