Richard Harris
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-10-01
Day of Death
2002-10-25 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
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
Acting
(2022)
The Ghost of Richard Harris
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
(2005)
(2004)
The Apocalypse
as John
(2004)
(2003)
(2002)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Albus Dumbledore
(2002)
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Abbé Faria
(2002)
(2002)
Arthur: King of the Britons
as Presenter
(2001)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Albus Dumbledore
(2001)
The Pearl
as Dr. Karl
(2001)
My Kingdom
as Sandeman
(2001)
(2000)
Gladiator
as Marcus Aurelius
(2000)
Hellraisers
as Self
(1999)
Grizzly Falls
as Old Harry
(1999)
To Walk with Lions
as George Adamson
(1998)
The Barber of Siberia
as Douglas McCraken
(1998)
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
as Self (archive footage)
(1997)
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Dr. Andreas Tork
(1997)
The Hunchback
as Dom Frollo
(1997)
This Is the Sea
as Old Man Jacobs
(1996)
Trojan Eddie
as John Power
(1995)
Savage Hearts
as Sir Roger Foxley
(1995)
Cry, the Beloved Country
as James Jarvis
(1995)
The Great Kandinsky
as Ernest Kandinsky
(1993)
Abraham
as Abraham
(1993)
Silent Tongue
as Prescott Roe
(1993)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Frank
(1992)
Unforgiven
as English Bob
(1992)
Patriot Games
as Paddy O'Neil
(1990)
The Field
as 'Bull' McCabe
(1990)
King of the Wind
as King George II
(1989)
Mack the Knife
as Mr. Peachum
(1988)
Maigret
as Jules Maigret
(1988)
Strike Commando 2
as Major Vic Jenkins
(1985)
Martin's Day
as Martin Steckert
(1983)
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
(1982)
Camelot
as King Arthur
(1982)
Highpoint
as Lewis Kinney
(1981)
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
as Jason
(1981)
Tarzan the Ape Man
as James Porter
(1979)
Ravagers
as Falk
(1979)
The Last Word
as Danny Travis
(1979)
Game for Vultures
as David Swansey
(1978)
The Wild Geese
as Capt. Rafer Janders
(1978)
(1977)
Orca
as Captain Nolan
(1977)
Golden Rendezvous
as John Carter
(1977)
Gulliver's Travels
as Gulliver
(1976)
The Cassandra Crossing
as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
(1976)
Robin and Marian
as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
(1976)
The Return of a Man Called Horse
as John Morgan / Horse
(1976)
Echoes of a Summer
as Eugene
(1976)
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
as Self
(1974)
Juggernaut
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
(1974)
99 and 44/100% Dead
as Harry Crown
(1973)
The Deadly Trackers
as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
(1971)
Man in the Wilderness
as Zachary Bass
(1971)
The Snow Goose
as Philip Rhayadar
(1970)
Cromwell
as Oliver Cromwell
(1970)
A Man Called Horse
as John Morgan
(1970)
The Molly Maguires
as James McKenna
(1970)
Bloomfield
as Eitan
(1970)
Return of the Islander
as Narrator (voice)
(1967)
Camelot
as King Arthur
(1967)
Caprice
as Christopher White
(1966)
(1966)
Hawaii
as Rafer Hoxworth
(1965)
Major Dundee
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
(1965)
The Heroes of Telemark
as Knut Straud
(1965)
The Three Faces
as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
(1964)
Red Desert
as Corrado Zeller
(1963)
This Sporting Life
as Frank Machin
(1962)
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Seaman John Mills
(1961)
The Guns of Navarone
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
(1961)
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
(1959)
Shake Hands with the Devil
as Terence O'Brien
(1959)
Alive and Kicking
as Lover
Crew
(1976)
The Return of a Man Called Horse
Executive Producer
(1970)
Bloomfield
Director, Screenplay