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
- Julius Caesar as Lucius Silla
- Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' as Self
- Arthur: King of the Britons as Presenter
2001
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as Albus Dumbledore
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
- Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World as Self
- My Kingdom as Sandeman
- The Pearl as Dr. Karl
2000
- Gladiator as Marcus Aurelius
- Bette
- Hellraisers as Self
1999
- To Walk with Lions as George Adamson
- Grizzly Falls as Old Harry
1998
- The Barber of Siberia as Douglas McCraken
- Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! as Self (archive footage)
1997
- The Hunchback as Dom Frollo
- Smilla's Sense of Snow as Dr. Andreas Tork
- This Is the Sea as Old Man Jacobs
1996
- Trojan Eddie as John Power
1995
- Cry, the Beloved Country as James Jarvis
- Savage Hearts as Sir Roger Foxley
- The Great Kandinsky as Ernest Kandinsky
1994
- Silent Tongue as Prescott Roe
1993
- Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
- Abraham as Abraham
- Wrestling Ernest Hemingway as Frank
- Abraham as Abraham
1992
- Unforgiven as English Bob
- Patriot Games as Paddy O'Neil
1990
- King of the Wind as King George II
- The Field as 'Bull' McCabe
1989
- Mack the Knife as Mr. Peachum
1988
- Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute as Self
- Maigret as Jules Maigret
- Strike Commando 2 as Major Vic Jenkins
1985
- Martin's Day as Martin Steckert
1984
- Highpoint as Lewis Kinney
1983
- Triumphs of a Man Called Horse as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
1982
- Camelot as King Arthur
1981
- Tarzan the Ape Man as James Porter
- Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid as Jason
1980
1979
- Game for Vultures as David Swansey
- The Last Word as Danny Travis
- Ravagers as Falk
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
- Robin and Marian as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
- The Return of a Man Called Horse as John Morgan / Horse
- Echoes of a Summer as Eugene
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Juggernaut as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
- Flick Flack
- 99 and 44/100% Dead as Harry Crown
1973
- The Deadly Trackers as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
- Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La as Self
1971
- Film '72 as Self
- Man in the Wilderness as Zachary Bass
- The Snow Goose as Philip Rhayadar
1970
- A Man Called Horse as John Morgan
- The Molly Maguires as James McKenna
- Cromwell as Oliver Cromwell
- Return of the Islander as Narrator (voice)
- Bloomfield as Eitan
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1966
- The Bible: In the Beginning... as Cain
- Hawaii as Rafer Hoxworth
1965
- Major Dundee as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
- The Heroes of Telemark as Knut Straud
- The Three Faces as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
1964
- The Hollywood Palace as Self - Singer
- Red Desert as Corrado Zeller
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
- The Wreck of the Mary Deare as Higgins
- Shake Hands with the Devil as Terence O'Brien
- 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