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Richard Harris
Richard Harris

Richard Harris

ActingBorn October 1, 1930Died October 25, 2002 (age 72)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.

Filmography

2022Movie
2004Movie
2002
Julius Caesar

as Lucius Silla

TV
2002Movie
2002Movie
2002Movie
2001Movie
2001
My Kingdom

as Sandeman

Movie
2001
The Pearl

as Dr. Karl

Movie
2000TV
2000Movie
2000
Gladiator

as Marcus Aurelius

Movie
1999
Grizzly Falls

as Old Harry

Movie
1999
To Walk with Lions

as George Adamson

Movie
1998
The Barber of Siberia

as Douglas McCraken

Movie
1998
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1997
This Is the Sea

as Old Man Jacobs

Movie
1997
The Hunchback

as Dom Frollo

Movie
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Dr. Andreas Tork

Movie
1996
Trojan Eddie

as John Power

Movie
1995Movie
1995
The Great Kandinsky

as Ernest Kandinsky

Movie
1995
Savage Hearts

as Sir Roger Foxley

Movie
1994
Abraham

as Abraham

TV
1994
Silent Tongue

as Prescott Roe

Movie
1993
Abraham

as Abraham

Movie
1992
Unforgiven

as English Bob

Movie
1992
Patriot Games

as Paddy O'Neil

Movie
1990
The Field

as 'Bull' McCabe

Movie
1990
King of the Wind

as King George II

Movie
1989
Mack the Knife

as Mr. Peachum

Movie
1988
Strike Commando 2

as Major Vic Jenkins

Movie
1988
Maigret

as Jules Maigret

Movie
1985
Martin's Day

as Martin Steckert

Movie
1983
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

as John Morgan - Man Called Horse

Movie
1982
Camelot

as King Arthur

Movie
1982
Highpoint

as Lewis Kinney

Movie
1981
Tarzan the Ape Man

as James Porter

Movie
1979
The Last Word

as Danny Travis

Movie
1979
Ravagers

as Falk

Movie
1979
Game for Vultures

as David Swansey

Movie
1978
The Wild Geese

as Capt. Rafer Janders

Movie
1977
Golden Rendezvous

as John Carter

Movie
1977
Orca

as Captain Nolan

Movie
1977Movie
1976
The Cassandra Crossing

as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain

Movie
1976
The Return of a Man Called Horse

as John Morgan / Horse

Movie
1976
Robin and Marian

as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard

Movie
1976Movie
1974
Dinah!

as Self

TV
1974
Juggernaut

as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon

Movie
1974
99 and 44/100% Dead

as Harry Crown

Movie
1973
The Deadly Trackers

as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick

Movie
1971
Man in the Wilderness

as Zachary Bass

Movie
1971
Film '72

as Self

TV
1971
The Snow Goose

as Philip Rhayadar

Movie
1970
Bloomfield

as Eitan

Movie
1970
Cromwell

as Oliver Cromwell

Movie
1970
A Man Called Horse

as John Morgan

Movie
1970
The Molly Maguires

as James McKenna

Movie
1970
Return of the Islander

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

TV
1967
Camelot

as King Arthur

Movie
1967
Caprice

as Christopher White

Movie
1966
Hawaii

as Rafer Hoxworth

Movie
1965Movie
1965
Major Dundee

as Captain Benjamin Tyreen

Movie
1965
The Three Faces

as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")

Movie
1964
Red Desert

as Corrado Zeller

Movie
1964
The Hollywood Palace

as Self - Singer

TV
1963
This Sporting Life

as Frank Machin

Movie
1962
Mutiny on the Bounty

as Seaman John Mills

Movie
1962TV
1961
The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host

TV
1961
The Guns of Navarone

as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF

Movie
1961Movie
1960
A Terrible Beauty

as Sean Reilly

Movie
1959Movie
1959Movie
1959
Shake Hands with the Devil

as Terence O'Brien

Movie
1956TV
1953
The Oscars

as Self

TV
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Philip Rhayadar

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayOctober 1, 1930
Day of DeathOctober 25, 2002
Place of BirthLimerick City, Munster, Ireland
Popularity2.8