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Michael Gambon on stage, from King Lear to Krapp – in pictures

More than 50 years after his stage debut, Michael Gambon has announced that he is retiring from the theatre. Here’s a reminder of some of his celebrated performances in plays by Beckett, Shakespeare and Pinter, with co-stars including Jenny Agutter, Daniel Craig and Lee Evans

Michael Gambon: ‘You just do it. That’s what acting is’

Mon 9 Feb 2015 08.22 EST Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08.45 EDT

As King Lear at the Barbican in 1982 with Jenny Agutter as Regan.
Photograph: Graham Wiltshire/Rex
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Michael Gambon as Falstaff in Henry IV Part I at the National Theatre in 2005.
Photograph: Catherine Ashmore/PR
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In Beckett’s Eh Joe at the Edinburgh festival in 2013.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
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In Donald Freed’s play Veterans Day at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1989.
Photograph: Getty Images
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With Lia Williams in David Hare’s Skylight at the National Theatre in 1995.
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/PR
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With Eileen Atkins in All That Fall at Jermyn Street theatre in 2012.
Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
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With Lee Evans in Endgame at the Albery in London in 2004.
Photograph: Tristram Kenton
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With Daniel Craig in A Number at the Royal Court theatre in 2002.
Photograph: Robbie Jack
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With Rupert Graves in The Caretaker at the Comedy theatre in London in 2000.
Photograph: Tristram Kenton
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In Krapp’s Last Tape at the Duchess theatre in London in 2010 .
Photograph: Alastair Muir/Rex
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Michael Gambon on stage, from King Lear to Krapp in pictures | Stage

More than 50 years after his stage debut, Michael Gambon has announced that he is retiring from the theatre. Heres a reminder of some of his celebrated performances in plays by Beckett, Shakespeare and Pinter, with co-stars including Jenny Agutter, Daniel Craig and Lee Evans

Michael Gambon on stage, from King Lear to Krapp – in pictures

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