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
all 103
Movies 85
self 20
TV Shows 18
Narrator 1
The Ghost of Richard Harris (2022)
Honest Trailers (2012)
Never Apologize (2008)
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' (2005)
The Apocalypse (2004)
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter (2004)
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway (2003)
Julius Caesar (2003)
Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)
Julius Cäsar (2002)
Julius Caesar (2002)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' (2002)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World (2001)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001)
My Kingdom (2001)
The Pearl (2001)
Bette (2000)
Hellraisers (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
Grizzly Falls (1999)
To Walk with Lions (1999)
The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! (1998)
This Is the Sea (1997)
The Hunchback (1997)
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
Trojan Eddie (1996)
Airport (1996)
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
The Great Kandinsky (1995)
Savage Hearts (1995)
Joan Littlewood's Lovely War (1994)
Abraham (1994)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
Abraham (1993)
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties (1993)
Silent Tongue (1993)
Unforgiven (1992)
Patriot Games (1992)
The Field (1990)
King of the Wind (1990)
Mack the Knife (1989)
Strike Commando 2 (1988)
Maigret (1988)
Martin's Day (1985)
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983)
Camelot (1982)
Highpoint (1982)
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)
Russell Harty (1980)
Game for Vultures (1980)
The Last Word (1979)
Ravagers (1979)
The Wild Geese (1978)
Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese (1978)
Golden Rendezvous (1977)
Orca (1977)
Gulliver's Travels (1977)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
Robin and Marian (1976)
Echoes of a Summer (1976)
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La (1976)
Juggernaut (1974)
99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
Flick Flack (1974)
The Deadly Trackers (1973)
Man in the Wilderness (1971)
The Snow Goose (1971)
Bloomfield (1970)
Cromwell (1970)
A Man Called Horse (1970)
The Molly Maguires (1970)
Return of the Islander (1970)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
Camelot (1967)
Caprice (1967)
Hawaii (1966)
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Major Dundee (1965)
The Three Faces (1965)
Red Desert (1964)
The Hollywood Palace (1964)
This Sporting Life (1963)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)
A Terrible Beauty (1960)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
Alive and Kicking (1959)
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
Cinépanorama (1956)
The Oscars (1953)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Divine Rapture
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1930-10-01
Deathday2002-10-25 (72 years old)
Birth NameRichard St John Harris
Birth PlaceLimerick, Ireland
Height1.85-meter
RelationshipsElizabeth Harris Aitken (1957-02-09 - 1969-01-01), Ann Turkel (1974-06-07 - 1982-01-01)
ChildrenJamie Harris, Jared Harris, Damian Harris
FatherIvan Harris
SiblingsDermot Harris
RelativesAnnabelle Wallis
CitizenshipsRepublic of Ireland
ResidencesCounty Limerick, Ireland
Also Known AsРичард Харрис
AwardsGrammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording, British Independent Film Award – The Richard Harris Award, Golden Globe Award, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
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