Richard Harris
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 1, 1930
- Died
- October 25, 2002 (aged 72)
- Birthplace
- Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Biography
Richard St John Francis Harris (October 1, 1930 – October 25, 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. He appeared on stage and in many films, notably as Corrado Zeller in Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert, Frank Machin in This Sporting Life, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and as King Arthur in the 1967 film Camelot, as well as the 1981 revival of the stage musical. He played an English aristocrat captured by the Sioux in A Man Called Horse (1970), Oliver Cromwell in Cromwell (1970), an embattled Irish farmer in Jim Sheridan's The Field (which earned him a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor), English Bob in Clint Eastwood's revisionist Western Unforgiven (1992), Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000), The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) as Abbé Faria, and Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), the latter of which was his final film role. Harris had a number-one singing hit in Australia, Jamaica and Canada, and a top-ten hit in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States with his 1968 recording of Jimmy Webb's song "MacArthur Park". In 2020, he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Known For
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Filmography
Exterior Day
Movie
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Movie · as Self
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Movie · as Self
The Apocalypse
Movie · as John
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Movie · as Self - Professor Dumbledore
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Movie
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Movie · as Albus Dumbledore
The Count of Monte Cristo
Movie · as Abbé Faria
Arthur: King of the Britons
Movie · as Presenter
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Movie · as Self
Julius Caesar
TV · as Lucius Silla · 2 eps
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Movie · as Albus Dumbledore
My Kingdom
Movie · as Sandeman
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Movie · as Self
The Pearl
Movie · as Dr. Karl
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Gladiator
Movie · as Marcus Aurelius
Hellraisers
Movie · as Self
Bette
TV · 1 ep
Grizzly Falls
Movie · as Old Harry
To Walk with Lions
Movie · as George Adamson
The Barber of Siberia
Movie · as Douglas McCraken
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
This Is the Sea
Movie · as Old Man Jacobs
The Hunchback
Movie · as Dom Frollo
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Movie · as Dr. Andreas Tork
Trojan Eddie
Movie · as John Power
Cry, the Beloved Country
Movie · as James Jarvis
The Great Kandinsky
Movie · as Ernest Kandinsky
Savage Hearts
Movie · as Sir Roger Foxley
Silent Tongue
Movie · as Prescott Roe
Abraham
Movie · as Abraham
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Movie · as Frank
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Abraham
TV · as Abraham · 2 eps
Unforgiven
Movie · as English Bob
Patriot Games
Movie · as Paddy O'Neil
The Field
Movie · as 'Bull' McCabe
King of the Wind
Movie · as King George II
Mack the Knife
Movie · as Mr. Peachum
Strike Commando 2
Movie · as Major Vic Jenkins
Maigret
Movie · as Jules Maigret
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Movie · as Self
Martin's Day
Movie · as Martin Steckert
Highpoint
Movie · as Lewis Kinney
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
Movie · as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
Camelot
Movie · as King Arthur
Tarzan the Ape Man
Movie · as James Porter
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Movie · as Jason
Russell Harty
TV · 1 ep
Game for Vultures
Movie · as David Swansey
Ravagers
Movie · as Falk
The Last Word
Movie · as Danny Travis
The Wild Geese
Movie · as Capt. Rafer Janders
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
Movie · as Self
Orca
Movie · as Captain Nolan
Gulliver's Travels
Movie · as Gulliver
Golden Rendezvous
Movie · as John Carter
Robin and Marian
Movie · as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
The Cassandra Crossing
Movie · as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
The Return of a Man Called Horse
Movie · as John Morgan / Horse
Echoes of a Summer
Movie · as Eugene
Juggernaut
Movie · as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
99 and 44/100% Dead
Movie · as Harry Crown
Flick Flack
TV · 1 ep
Dinah!
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Deadly Trackers
Movie · as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
Movie · as Self
Man in the Wilderness
Movie · as Zachary Bass
The Snow Goose
Movie · as Philip Rhayadar
Film '72
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Bloomfield
Movie · as Eitan
Cromwell
Movie · as Oliver Cromwell
The Molly Maguires
Movie · as James McKenna
A Man Called Horse
Movie · as John Morgan
Return of the Islander
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Caprice
Movie · as Christopher White
Camelot
Movie · as King Arthur
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Movie · as Cain
Hawaii
Movie · as Rafer Hoxworth
Major Dundee
Movie · as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
The Heroes of Telemark
Movie · as Knut Straud
The Three Faces
Movie · as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
Red Desert
Movie · as Corrado Zeller
The Hollywood Palace
TV · as Self - Singer · 1 ep
This Sporting Life
Movie · as Frank Machin
Mutiny on the Bounty
Movie · as Seaman John Mills
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 6 eps
The Guns of Navarone
Movie · as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Movie · as Cpl. Johnstone
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self - Co-Host · 1 ep
A Terrible Beauty
Movie · as Sean Reilly
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Movie · as Higgins
Shake Hands with the Devil
Movie · as Terence O'Brien
Alive and Kicking
Movie · as Lover
Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Philip Rhayadar · 1 ep
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps