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Richard Harris

Born 1930-10-01
Died 2002-10-25
📍 Limerick City, Munster, Ireland

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 98

Exterior Day
2022
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
as Self
2005
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
as Self
2005
The Apocalypse
as John
2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
2004
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
Julius Caesar
as Lucius Silla
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
2002
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
2001
Bette
2000
Hellraisers
as Self
2000
Gladiator
as Marcus Aurelius
2000
Grizzly Falls
as Old Harry
1999
To Walk with Lions
as George Adamson
1999
The Barber of Siberia
as Douglas McCraken
1998
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
as Self (archive footage)
1998
This Is the Sea
as Old Man Jacobs
1997
The Hunchback
as Dom Frollo
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Dr. Andreas Tork
1997
Trojan Eddie
as John Power
1996
Cry, the Beloved Country
as James Jarvis
1995
Savage Hearts
as Sir Roger Foxley
1995
Abraham
as Abraham
1994
Silent Tongue
as Prescott Roe
1994
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Frank
1993
Abraham
as Abraham
1993
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
1993
Unforgiven
as English Bob
1992
Patriot Games
as Paddy O'Neil
1992
The Field
as 'Bull' McCabe
1990
King of the Wind
as King George II
1990
Mack the Knife
as Mr. Peachum
1989
Strike Commando 2
as Major Vic Jenkins
1988
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
as Self
1988
Maigret
as Jules Maigret
1988
Martin's Day
as Martin Steckert
1985
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
1983
Camelot
as King Arthur
1982
Highpoint
as Lewis Kinney
1982
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
as Jason
1981
Tarzan the Ape Man
as James Porter
1981
The Last Word
as Danny Travis
1979
Ravagers
as Falk
1979
Game for Vultures
as David Swansey
1979
The Wild Geese
as Capt. Rafer Janders
1978
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
as Self
1978
Golden Rendezvous
as John Carter
1977
Orca
as Captain Nolan
1977
Gulliver's Travels
as Gulliver
1977
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
Dinah!
as Self
1974
Juggernaut
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
1974
99 and 44/100% Dead
as Harry Crown
1974
Flick Flack
1974
The Deadly Trackers
as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
1973
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
as Self
1973
Man in the Wilderness
as Zachary Bass
1971
The Snow Goose
as Philip Rhayadar
1971
Bloomfield
as Eitan
1970
Cromwell
as Oliver Cromwell
1970
A Man Called Horse
as John Morgan
1970
The Molly Maguires
as James McKenna
1970
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
Camelot
as King Arthur
1967
Caprice
as Christopher White
1967
Hawaii
as Rafer Hoxworth
1966
The Bible: In the Beginning...
as Cain
1966
The Heroes of Telemark
as Knut Straud
1965
Major Dundee
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
1965
The Three Faces
as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
1965
Red Desert
as Corrado Zeller
1964
The Hollywood Palace
as Self - Singer
1964
This Sporting Life
as Frank Machin
1963
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Seaman John Mills
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self (archive footage)
1962
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
1961
A Terrible Beauty
as Sean Reilly
1960
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
as Higgins
1959
Alive and Kicking
as Lover
1959
Shake Hands with the Devil
as Terence O'Brien
1959
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
The Oscars
as Self
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Philip Rhayadar
1951
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948