Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 1, 1930
Place of Birth:
Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
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Richard Harris
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
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Exterior Day | |
| 2005 | Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' | Self |
| 2005 | Strength and Honor: Production Pods | Self |
| 2004 | The Apocalypse | John |
| 2004 | The Magic Touch of Harry Potter | Self |
| 2003 | The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway | |
| 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Albus Dumbledore |
| 2002 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Abbé Faria |
| 2002 | Arthur: King of the Britons | Presenter |
| 2002 | Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' | Self |
| 2002 | The Apocalypse | Apostle John |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Albus Dumbledore |
| 2001 | My Kingdom | Sandeman |
| 2001 | Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World | Self |
| 2001 | The Pearl | Dr. Karl |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Marcus Aurelius |
| 2000 | Hellraisers | Self |
| 1999 | Grizzly Falls | Old Harry |
| 1999 | To Walk with Lions | George Adamson |
| 1998 | The Barber of Siberia | Douglas McCraken |
| 1998 | Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! | Self (archive footage) |
| 1997 | This Is the Sea | Old Man Jacobs |
| 1997 | The Hunchback | Dom Frollo |
| 1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Dr. Andreas Tork |
| 1996 | Trojan Eddie | John Power |
| 1995 | Cry, the Beloved Country | James Jarvis |
| 1995 | The Great Kandinsky | Ernest Kandinsky |
| 1995 | Savage Hearts | Sir Roger Foxley |
| 1993 | Abraham | Abraham |
| 1993 | Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | Frank |
| 1993 | Silent Tongue | Prescott Roe |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | English Bob |
| 1992 | Patriot Games | Paddy O'Neil |
| 1990 | The Field | 'Bull' McCabe |
| 1990 | King of the Wind | King George II |
| 1989 | Mack the Knife | Mr. Peachum |
| 1988 | Strike Commando 2 | Major Vic Jenkins |
| 1988 | Maigret | Jules Maigret |
| 1985 | Martin's Day | Martin Steckert |
| 1983 | Triumphs of a Man Called Horse | John Morgan - Man Called Horse |
| 1982 | Camelot | King Arthur |
| 1982 | Highpoint | Lewis Kinney |
| 1981 | Tarzan the Ape Man | James Porter |
| 1981 | Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid | Jason |
| 1979 | Game for Vultures | David Swansey |
| 1979 | Ravagers | Falk |
| 1979 | The Last Word | Danny Travis |
| 1978 | The Wild Geese | Capt. Rafer Janders |
| 1978 | Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese | Self |
| 1977 | Orca | Captain Nolan |
| 1977 | Gulliver's Travels | Gulliver |
| 1977 | Golden Rendezvous | John Carter |
| 1976 | Robin and Marian | Richard the Lionheart / King Richard |
| 1976 | The Cassandra Crossing | Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain |
| 1976 | The Return of a Man Called Horse | John Morgan / Horse |
| 1976 | Echoes of a Summer | Eugene |
| 1976 | Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La | Self |
| 1974 | Juggernaut | Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon |
| 1974 | 99 and 44/100% Dead | Harry Crown |
| 1973 | The Deadly Trackers | Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick |
| 1971 | Man in the Wilderness | Zachary Bass |
| 1971 | The Snow Goose | Philip Rhayadar |
| 1970 | Bloomfield | Eitan |
| 1970 | Cromwell | Oliver Cromwell |
| 1970 | The Molly Maguires | James McKenna |
| 1970 | A Man Called Horse | John Morgan |
| 1970 | Return of the Islander | Narrator (voice) |
| 1967 | Caprice | Christopher White |
| 1967 | Camelot | King Arthur |
| 1966 | The Bible: In the Beginning... | Cain |
| 1966 | Hawaii | Rafer Hoxworth |
| 1965 | Major Dundee | Captain Benjamin Tyreen |
| 1965 | The Heroes of Telemark | Knut Straud |
| 1965 | The Three Faces | Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri") |
| 1964 | Red Desert | Corrado Zeller |
| 1963 | This Sporting Life | Frank Machin |
| 1962 | Mutiny on the Bounty | Seaman John Mills |
| 1961 | The Guns of Navarone | Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF |
| 1961 | The Long and the Short and the Tall | Cpl. Johnstone |
| 1960 | A Terrible Beauty | Sean Reilly |
| 1959 | The Wreck of the Mary Deare | Higgins |
| 1959 | Shake Hands with the Devil | Terence O'Brien |
| 1959 | Alive and Kicking | Lover |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Honest Trailers | Albus Dumbledore (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Creating the World of Harry Potter | Self - 'Professor Albus Dumbledore' (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Julius Caesar | Lucius Silla |
| 2001 | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | Self |
| 2000 | Bette | |
| 1994 | Abraham | Abraham |
| 1993 | Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties | Self |
| 1980 | Russell Harty | |
| 1974 | Flick Flack | |
| 1974 | Dinah! | Self |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest |
| 1964 | The Hollywood Palace | Self - Singer |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self - Co-Host |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Philip Rhayadar |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |