For those who like their screen heroes larger than life, Sir Michael Gambon, who has died at the age of 82, fulfilled an awful lot of fantasies.From the bedridden writer in The Singing Detective whose naked body is slathered in lotion by an alluringly beautiful Joanne Whalley to the all-knowing Dumbledore — be-whiskered headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts in the franchise — and sadistic crime boss Eddie Temple in Layer Cake, his roles were as complex and obscure as the man himself.He was the master of the disarming one-liner, telling one interviewer who wondered if it was difficult to play the homosexual author Oscar Wilde for a TV film that it was easy since he used to be gay himself. After a theatrical pause he added: 'I had to give it up. It made my eyes water.'
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