Richard Harris
Known for Acting · 100 credits
- Born
- 1930-10-01
- Died
- 2002-10-25
- Place of birth
- Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
- Also known as
- Richard St. John 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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self / Self (archive footage)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Albus Dumbledore
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
TV Shows (17)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self / Self (archive footage)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Dinah!
1974
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self
Cinépanorama
1956
as Self
The Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self - Singer
Bette
2000
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Philip Rhayadar
Russell Harty
1980
Julius Caesar
2002
as Lucius Silla
Flick Flack
1974
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
as Self
Abraham
1994
as Abraham
Movies (83)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Albus Dumbledore
Gladiator
2000
as Marcus Aurelius
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
as Abbé Faria
Unforgiven
1992
as English Bob
Patriot Games
1992
as Paddy O'Neil
The Guns of Navarone
1961
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
Orca
1977
as Captain Nolan
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
as Cain
The Wild Geese
1978
as Capt. Rafer Janders
The Hunchback
1997
as Dom Frollo
Red Desert
1964
as Corrado Zeller
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
as Seaman John Mills
Camelot
1967
as King Arthur
Major Dundee
1965
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
The Barber of Siberia
1998
as Douglas McCraken
Cromwell
1970
as Oliver Cromwell
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981
as James Porter
Man in the Wilderness
1971
as Zachary Bass
Robin and Marian
1976
as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
as Knut Straud
A Man Called Horse
1970
as John Morgan
The Field
1990
as 'Bull' McCabe
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
as Dr. Andreas Tork
Abraham
1993
as Abraham
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998
as Self (archive footage)
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
as Self
Hawaii
1966
as Rafer Hoxworth
Juggernaut
1974
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
The Apocalypse
2004
as John
Ravagers
1979
as Falk
Caprice
1967
as Christopher White
Golden Rendezvous
1977
as John Carter
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
as Frank
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
as John Morgan / Horse
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981
as Jason
Cry, the Beloved Country
1995
as James Jarvis
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
as Self
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
as Cpl. Johnstone
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
as Higgins
To Walk with Lions
1999
as George Adamson
Mack the Knife
1989
as Mr. Peachum
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
as Terence O'Brien
The Last Word
1979
as Danny Travis
Highpoint
1982
as Lewis Kinney
This Sporting Life
1963
as Frank Machin
Silent Tongue
1994
as Prescott Roe
The Molly Maguires
1970
as James McKenna
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988
as Self
The Deadly Trackers
1973
as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
1983
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
Maigret
1988
as Jules Maigret
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
as Harry Crown
Hellraisers
2000
as Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
as Self
My Kingdom
2001
as Sandeman
The Great Kandinsky
1995
as Ernest Kandinsky
Bloomfield
1970
as Eitan
Trojan Eddie
1996
as John Power
Grizzly Falls
1999
as Old Harry
This Is the Sea
1997
as Old Man Jacobs
The Pearl
2001
as Dr. Karl
Gulliver's Travels
1977
as Gulliver
King of the Wind
1990
as King George II
The Three Faces
1965
as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
Alive and Kicking
1959
as Lover
Martin's Day
1985
as Martin Steckert
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001
as Self
Game for Vultures
1979
as David Swansey
Echoes of a Summer
1976
as Eugene
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
Savage Hearts
1995
as Sir Roger Foxley
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978
as Self
Strike Commando 2
1988
as Major Vic Jenkins
A Terrible Beauty
1960
as Sean Reilly
Camelot
1982
as King Arthur
The Snow Goose
1971
as Philip Rhayadar
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
as Self
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1973
as Self
Arthur: King of the Britons
2002
as Presenter
Exterior Day
2022
Return of the Islander
1970
as Narrator (voice)
About 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… With 100 credits spanning from 1948 to 2022, Richard Harris has appeared in 83 films and 17 TV shows.
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Most Popular Richard Harris Movies
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) — as Albus Dumbledore
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) — as Albus Dumbledore
- Gladiator (2000) — as Marcus Aurelius
- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) — as Abbé Faria
- Unforgiven (1992) — as English Bob
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