The Tragic Reason Harry Potter's Dumbledore Has To Give Up Stage Acting — cinemablend.com

Such is the case of Michael Gambon, the award-winning actor best known for playing Professor Dumbledore in the last six Harry Potter films. As reported in The Sunday Times Magazine, Gambon has had to retire from stage acting, effective immediately, due to a "frightening" level of memory loss. The 74-year-old Irish actor said in a statement: This doesn’t mean that Michael Gambon will retire for good, thankfully. He’s already scheduled to be part of The Casual Vacancy, a mini-series coming to HBO that’s based on JK Rowling’s latest novel. He’ll be seen in the big-screen remake of Dad’s Army. But don’t look for him in the eventual adaptation of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, as Dumbledore was a much-younger man during the time frame in which that story takes place.

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