Richard Harris
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
Credits
- 2022 · The Ghost of Richard Harris as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Exterior Day as
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Albus Dumbledore (archive footage)
- 2005 · Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' as Self
- 2004 · The Apocalypse as John
- 2004 · The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self
- 2003 · The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway as
- 2003 · Julius Caesar as Lucius Cornelius Silla
- 2003 · Kaena: The Prophecy as Opaz (english voice)
- 2002 · Julius Caesar as Lucius Cornelius Sulla
- 2002 · Julius Cäsar as Sulla
- 2002 · Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Albus Dumbledore
- 2002 · Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' as Self
- 2002 · Arthur: King of the Britons as Presenter
- 2002 · The Count of Monte Cristo as Abbé Faria
- 2001 · Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World as Self
- 2001 · Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as Albus Dumbledore
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
- 2001 · My Kingdom as Sandeman
- 2001 · The Pearl as Dr. Karl
- 2000 · Bette as
- 2000 · Hellraisers as Self
- 2000 · Gladiator as Marcus Aurelius
- 1999 · Grizzly Falls as Old Harry
- 1999 · To Walk with Lions as George Adamson
- 1998 · The Barber of Siberia as Douglas McCraken
- 1998 · Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 · This Is the Sea as Old Man Jacobs
- 1997 · The Hunchback as Dom Frollo
- 1997 · Smilla's Sense of Snow as Dr. Andreas Tork
- 1996 · Trojan Eddie as John Power
- 1995 · Cry, the Beloved Country as James Jarvis
- 1995 · The Great Kandinsky as Ernest Kandinsky
- 1995 · Savage Hearts as Sir Roger Foxley
- 1994 · Abraham as Abraham
- 1993 · Wrestling Ernest Hemingway as Frank
- 1993 · Abraham as Abraham
- 1993 · Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
- 1993 · Silent Tongue as Prescott Roe
- 1992 · Unforgiven as English Bob
- 1992 · Patriot Games as Paddy O'Neil
- 1990 · The Field as 'Bull' McCabe
- 1990 · King of the Wind as King George II
- 1989 · Mack the Knife as Mr. Peachum
- 1988 · Strike Commando 2 as Major Vic Jenkins
- 1988 · Maigret as Jules Maigret
- 1985 · Martin's Day as Martin Steckert
- 1983 · Triumphs of a Man Called Horse as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
- 1982 · Camelot as King Arthur
- 1982 · Highpoint as Lewis Kinney
- 1981 · Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid as Jason
- 1981 · Tarzan the Ape Man as James Porter
- 1980 · Russell Harty as
- 1979 · The Last Word as Danny Travis
- 1979 · Ravagers as Falk
- 1979 · Game for Vultures as David Swansey
- 1978 · The Wild Geese as Capt. Rafer Janders
- 1978 · Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese as Self
- 1977 · Golden Rendezvous as John Carter
- 1977 · Orca as Captain Nolan
- 1977 · Gulliver's Travels as Gulliver
- 1976 · The Cassandra Crossing as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
- 1976 · The Return of a Man Called Horse as John Morgan / Horse
- 1976 · Robin and Marian as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
- 1976 · Echoes of a Summer as Eugene
- 1976 · Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La as Self
- 1974 · Dinah! as Self
- 1974 · Juggernaut as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
- 1974 · 99 and 44/100% Dead as Harry Crown
- 1974 · Flick Flack as
- 1973 · The Deadly Trackers as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
- 1971 · Man in the Wilderness as Zachary Bass
- 1971 · The Snow Goose as Philip Rhayadar
- 1970 · Bloomfield as Eitan
- 1970 · Cromwell as Oliver Cromwell
- 1970 · A Man Called Horse as John Morgan
- 1970 · The Molly Maguires as James McKenna
- 1970 · Return of the Islander as Narrator (voice)
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1967 · Camelot as King Arthur
- 1967 · Caprice as Christopher White
- 1966 · Hawaii as Rafer Hoxworth
- 1966 · The Bible: In the Beginning... as Cain
- 1965 · The Heroes of Telemark as Knut Straud
- 1965 · Major Dundee as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
- 1965 · The Three Faces as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
- 1964 · Red Desert as Corrado Zeller
- 1964 · The Hollywood Palace as Self - Singer
- 1963 · This Sporting Life as Frank Machin
- 1962 · Mutiny on the Bounty as Seaman John Mills
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1961 · The Guns of Navarone as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
- 1961 · The Long and the Short and the Tall as Cpl. Johnstone
- 1960 · A Terrible Beauty as Sean Reilly
- 1959 · The Wreck of the Mary Deare as Higgins
- 1959 · Alive and Kicking as Lover
- 1959 · Shake Hands with the Devil as Terence O'Brien
- 1956 · Cinépanorama as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Philip Rhayadar
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self - Singer
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self