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- Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid as Jason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