Jim Tavaré, best known for his role in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is in intensive care after a car crash left him severely injured.
The actor suffered 15 broken ribs, a broken neck and a punctured lung after a head-on collision.
Messages of support for Tavaré, who played Tom the Innkeeper in the third Harry Potter film, have flooded in from fellow entertainers and fans.
It is not just Harry Potter which the actor, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, is known for, the father-of-two worked on Bafta-winning TV series The Sketch Show.