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Sir Michael Gambon's Harry Potter co-stars, with whom he shared six films as Professor Albus Dumbledore, have paid tribute to him on his passing at the age of 82.

Daniel Radcliffe described the actor as "brilliant, effortless," adding that he "loved his job but never seemed defined by it."

Rupert Grint claimed that his role model "brought so much warmth and mischief to every day on set."

J.K. Rowling, the author, referred to him as a "wonderful man" and a "outstanding actor."

According to Fiona Shaw, another Harry Potter actress, Sir Michael has proven over his long and varied life that he "could do anything" as an actor.

The Dublin-born actor, who had a six-decade career in theater, film, television, and radio, died at a hospital from pneumonia. He took home four Baftas.

Although his family moved to London when Sir Michael was a young child, he made his stage debut in Ireland in a production of Othello in Dublin in 1962.

He became a founding member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre playing company in London, which was the beginning of his successful acting career. He eventually went on to win three Olivier Awards as a result of his performances in plays at the National Theatre.

Although he consistently believed that his theater work was the most significant, he performed in a number of notable TV and film roles in the 1980s and 1990s for which he garnered positive reviews.

One of these was The Singing Investigator, a controversial and ground-breaking BBC One drama in which he played the title role as the chief investigator in a difficult scenario by author Dennis Potter.

In two seasons of the ITV adaptation of Georges Simenon's classic novels, Parisian Jules Maigret, he played a completely different investigator, and in a 1985 BBC Two three-part series on the author's criminal investigation and imprisonment, he played Oscar Wilde.

He gave one of his most enduring performances as the gluttonous and unredeemable "thief" in The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover from 1989.

He was said to as a "naughty but very, very funny" acquaintance by his adulterous wife, Dame Helen Mirren.

In an interview with Laura Kuenssberg for this weekend's Sunday, Dame Helen recalled how he had kept her "constantly in laughter" throughout the filming as well as when they had performed together on stage in Antony and Cleopatra seven years previously.

They had lately discussed aging older and how that affected their profession, she added, 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 theater, she said.

In the subsequent ten years, he has had additional notable film parts, sharing the screen with some of Hollywood's biggest performers in blockbusters including Toys, Sleepy Hollow, and Gosford Park. There was even time for a lighthearted cameo as Prime Minister Ali G Indahouse.

Wonderful trickster

But when fellow acting star Richard Harris passed away in 2002, Sir Michael stepped up to the plate and assumed the burden of following him in the Dumbledore role as headmaster of the renowned Harry Potter series' Hogwarts.

In an homage on X, formerly Twitter, the novels' author, J.K. Rowling, said, "If you'd told me back then that amazing actor would be in anything I'd written, I'd have thought you were insane. In 1982's King Lear, I saw him for the very first time.

Michael was a awful man, and I had a great time working with him on both Potter and The Casual Vacancy. During several of his constructive times, Sir Michael worked with Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter. He said," despite his immense gift, the thing I'll flash back most about him is how important fun he'd doing his job." I had the honor of working with some of the most talented and natural actors, including Michael Gambon. Radcliffe spoke to the media during a press conference and recalled Sir Michael's partiality for" blurring the lines of fact and fabrication" as well as calling him" silly, impious, and ridiculous." He worked extremely hard, but it did not feel to define him. 

In the television show "The Singing Detective," Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy, thanked Michael with teaching him how to be a complex, vulnerable, and completely honest actor. 

The finest part of being in the Potter movie was when Harry recognized me and shared his bold, wicked sense of humor with me.

He radically changed his field of employment, but never stopped to think about what he was doing, according to Fiona Shaw, who played Petunia Dursley in the movies. 

He was exceptional in the literary world, she added, and she will always remember him "as a trickster, just a brilliant, magnificent trickster." His abilities are superhuman.

James Phelps, who played Fred Weasley in the film, paid tribute to Sir Michael by calling him "a legend" in a message on the website X that took the place of Twitter.

He also recalled that Sir Michael had suggested earlier that he study his lines for a Peter and the Wolf performance he was set to give this past weekend with the Manchester Halle Orchestra.

We talked about my weekend work when he was supposed to be available. I've always thought of that as the pinnacle of my (Harry Potter) days, he remarked. 

He was referred to as "a great actor and great fun" by Dame Joan Collins, who played Sir Michael's wife in the BBC sitcom Mama's Back in 1993.

He was described as "a great actor, but he always pretended he didn't take it very seriously" and as having "impressive stage presence" on BBC Radio 4's The World at One by Dame Eileen Atkins, a close friend of Sir Michael's throughout his entire life.

She asserted that he only needed to go onto the stage to instantly command the entire crowd. She remarked, "This big man, who could look quite frightening, had something very sweet about him; there was something very sweet inside Michael." She added, "I will never forget that man."

In The Great Gambon

As the father of the stuttering King George VI, he played King George V in the movies The King's Speech and the big-screen adaptation of Dad's Army. along with the Harry Potter books.
For his performances as President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 2002 movie Path to War and as Mr. Woodhouse in the 2010 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Emma, he won Emmy nods. He received a Tony Award nomination in 1997 for his work in the David Hare play Skylight.
In 1998, he was knighted in honor of his contributions to the entertainment industry. Although he was born in Ireland, he became a British citizen when he was a little child.

The actor, known as "The Great Gambon" in the performing world, had last appeared on stage in a London production of Samuel Beckett's play All That Fall in 2012.

The American actor Ryan Phillippe said he was "so lucky" to have worked with Sir Michael on Gosford Park. The man recalled how they "got along like schoolmates due to his irrepressibly youthful spirit," noting that Sir Michael was in his 60s and he was only 25.

The vehicle drives he had in his vintage convertible while speeding home from work and cranking up the Stones' music will always be remembered by me. In a post on X, he wrote, "Rest in peace, mate.

Leo Varadkar, the prime minister of Ireland, commended the actor out of respect. He put his everything into every performance, whether it was for Beckett, Dennis Potter, or Harry Potter.