George Harrison
Acting
- Born:
- 1943-02-25
- Died:
- 2001-11-29
- Place of birth:
- Liverpool, England, UK
Biography
George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's break-up, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the acclaimed and successful triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which came two singles: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, another former Beatle, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised a major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. Besides being a musician, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna. He was married twice, to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1974, and for 23 years to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. He is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.
Known For
Filmography
Man on the Run
Evolver 62
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
A Love Letter to the Beatles
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere
TWST / Things We Said Today
The Beatles
David Frost Vs
La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
No Hamburg, No Beatles
Beatles '64
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
The Bannfoot Ferry
The Beach Boys
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
The Beatles and the BBC
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Louder Than Rock
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Roy Orbison at the BBC
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
If These Walls Could Sing
Ringo Starr: One of Them
Sherwood
Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
The Beatles: Get Back
The Beatles and India
McCartney 3, 2, 1
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
This Is Pop
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
Meeting the Beatles in India
History 101
The Shadows At Sixty
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
An Accidental Studio
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1
Understanding Lennon/McCartney
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff
The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
George Harrison - All Things Pass
Take Your Pills
14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
How the Beatles Changed the World
My Generation
Superswede: A film about Ronnie Peterson
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
The Summer of Love
Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
Free to Rock
Året var 1967
Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison
Beatles chronology (1962-1970)
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
The Beatles 1
The Beatles 1+
In Their Own Words
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75
When the Beatles Drove Us Wild
Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled
John Lennon - Imagine
Beatles på Sverigeturné
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Live In Denmark 1969
Badfinger - They Sold A Million
Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
Good Ol' Freda
Året var 1963
Genius
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO
Palme
The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966
The Beatles: Their Golden Age
Becoming the Beatles
The Winged Beetle
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Beatles Stories
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2
I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
The Beatles: A Magical History Tour
Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies
Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India
The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles
Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years
The Beatles: The Complete Story
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere
The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries
The Beatles on Record
The Beatles: Parting Ways
Project 9: The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Red Album 1962 - 1966
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Blue Album 1967 - 1970
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970
The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965
George Harrison: In Performance
The Beatles: Up Close and Personal
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
THE BEATLES in HELP!
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
The Beatles Phenomenon
The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
Rock Milestones: The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles Explosion
The Beatles In America
The Beatles: Love
To John With Love
Doctor Who: Origins
George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited
The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2
The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits
The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
Meet the Beatles
Beatles Biggest Secrets
20th Century Greats
The Beatles: Watching Rainbows
George Harrison: All things must pass
George Harrison: The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized
The Beatles: Around the World
Concert for George
Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
Beatles: The Journey
Hagström: Allt i musik
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road
The Beatles - Trilogy
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
Things They Said Today
Naqoyqatsi
George Harrison - The Quiet one
Elvis: King of Entertainment
Beatles: Big Beat Box
Wingspan
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
The Beatles: A Celebration
Television: The First Fifty Years
Classic Albums
The Beatles Story
The Beatles Unauthorized
Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
The Beatles Anthology
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary
Tom Petty: Going Home
Curves Contours & Body Horns
Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live
Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
George Harrison: Live at The Royal Albert Hall
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
George Harrison: Live in Japan
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
My Sweet Lord in the Far East
The Prince's Trust Rock Gala
The Simpsons
The Movie Life of George
Checking Out
Imagine: John Lennon
Jimi Plays Monterey
Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 2
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
Taj Mahal and Friends
Shanghai Surprise
Fun with the Fab Four
Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties
Carl Perkins & Friends: Blue Suede Shoes - A Rockabilly Session
British Rock: The First Wave
Water
James Bond: The First 21 Years
The Compleat Beatles
Timewatch
Wogan
Champs-Elysées
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
This Is Elvis
Life of Brian
Ringo
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
Mighty Good: The Beatles
The Day the Music Died
Night Lunch
Saturday Night Live
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
George Harrison: Live in North America 1974
Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles
The Society of the Spectacle
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
Imagine
The Concert for Bangladesh
Raga
Film '72
Disco
Let It Be
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
The Beatles: Something
The Beatles: Abbey Road
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two
The Beatles Mod Odyssey
All My Loving
Beatles Electroniques
The Beatles: Revolution
Frost on Sunday
Yellow Submarine
The Dick Cavett Show
The Movie Orgy
Magical Mystery Tour
Omnibus
All You Need Is Love
Our World
Monument
Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
El Rey en Londres
The Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany
The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966)
The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966)
The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966
Reflections on Love
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
The Beatles: Live in Paris
The Beatles
Help!
Doctor Who: The Chase
Pop Gear
What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands
A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles Sing for Shell
The Beatles in Australia
Around the Beatles
The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
Top of the Pops
The Beatles Come to Town
The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool
Doctor Who
The Mersey Sound
Morecambe & Wise
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Beatles - 1967-1970
Inside the Beatles: 1962-1970
Building the Beatles