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Remembering the <em>Harry Potter</em> Actors We've Lost Through the Years

Diane J. Cho

January 1, 2022 at 11:00 AM

Paul Grant

Alan Rickman

Leslie Phillips

Robbie Coltrane

Richard Griffiths

Richard Harris

Helen McCrory

Verne Troyer

Robert Hardy

John Hurt

Timothy Bateson

Terence Bayler

Robert Knox

Sam Beazley

Paul Ritter

Dave Legeno

Peter Cartwright

Derek Deadman

Hazel Douglas

Alfred Burke

Jimmy Gardner

Elizabeth Spriggs

Paul Grant

Grant, an actor and stuntman known for his work in popular fantasy film franchises like Star Wars and Harry Potter, died in March 2023. He was 56.

Grant was perhaps best known for playing an Ewok in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) and a Gringotts goblin in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).

He also appeared in 1986's Labyrinth as part of the Goblin Corps and as a stunt double for the character Hoggle, and performed stunts in Willow (1988) and Legend (1985).

The 4-foot, 4-inch actor lived with Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, "a rare genetic disorder" that can cause "short stature and orthopaedic conditions in the joints," according to Johns Hopkins.

Celebrate the lives of those who brought magic to the extraordinary world of Harry Potter

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