Richard Harris
Acting
- Born:
- 1930-10-01
- Died:
- 2002-10-25
- Place of birth:
- 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
Filmography
Exterior Day
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
The Apocalypse
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Julius Caesar
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Arthur: King of the Britons
The Count of Monte Cristo
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
My Kingdom
The Pearl
Bette
Hellraisers
Gladiator
Grizzly Falls
To Walk with Lions
The Barber of Siberia
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
This Is the Sea
The Hunchback
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Trojan Eddie
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Great Kandinsky
Savage Hearts
Silent Tongue
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Abraham
Abraham
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Unforgiven
Patriot Games
The Field
King of the Wind
Mack the Knife
Strike Commando 2
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Maigret
Martin's Day
Highpoint
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
Camelot
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Tarzan the Ape Man
Russell Harty
The Last Word
Ravagers
Game for Vultures
The Wild Geese
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
Golden Rendezvous
Orca
Gulliver's Travels
The Cassandra Crossing
The Return of a Man Called Horse
Robin and Marian
Echoes of a Summer
Dinah!
Juggernaut
99 and 44/100% Dead
Flick Flack
The Deadly Trackers
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
Man in the Wilderness
Film '72
The Snow Goose
Bloomfield
Cromwell
A Man Called Horse
The Molly Maguires
Return of the Islander
The Dick Cavett Show
Camelot
Caprice
Hawaii
The Bible: In the Beginning...
The Heroes of Telemark
Major Dundee
The Three Faces
Red Desert
The Hollywood Palace
This Sporting Life
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Guns of Navarone
The Long and the Short and the Tall
A Terrible Beauty
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Alive and Kicking
Shake Hands with the Devil
Cinépanorama
The Oscars
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Ed Sullivan Show