
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.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-10-01
Place of Birth
Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
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Unforgiven
19927.9 / 10
Gladiator
20008.2 / 10
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
20027.7 / 10
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
20017.9 / 10
Bloomfield
19705.1 / 10
The Bible: In the Beginning...
19667.3 / 10
Abraham
19937.0 / 10
The Guns of Navarone
19617.3 / 10
Robin and Marian
19766.3 / 10
Mutiny on the Bounty
19627.0 / 10
The Count of Monte Cristo
20027.7 / 10
The Wild Geese
19786.9 / 10
The Field
19907.1 / 10
Cromwell
19706.5 / 10
The Cassandra Crossing
19766.3 / 10
Tarzan the Ape Man
19814.1 / 10
Red Desert
19647.4 / 10
Orca
19776.2 / 10
Patriot Games
19926.7 / 10
Cry, the Beloved Country
19956.7 / 10
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
19936.2 / 10
The Return of a Man Called Horse
19765.7 / 10
Major Dundee
19656.7 / 10
Juggernaut
19746.2 / 10
The Molly Maguires
19706.3 / 10
A Man Called Horse
19706.5 / 10
Hawaii
19666.3 / 10
Caprice
19675.9 / 10
The Heroes of Telemark
19656.9 / 10
Gulliver's Travels
19775.5 / 10
This Is the Sea
19975.7 / 10
Man in the Wilderness
19716.2 / 10
Golden Rendezvous
19774.9 / 10
The Long and the Short and the Tall
19616.8 / 10
This Sporting Life
19637.0 / 10
My Kingdom
20015.1 / 10
Camelot
19676.2 / 10
Mack the Knife
19896.6 / 10
Grizzly Falls
19995.9 / 10
The Barber of Siberia
19987.1 / 10
99 and 44/100% Dead
19744.7 / 10
The Three Faces
19655.6 / 10
The Apocalypse
20045.3 / 10
Echoes of a Summer
19765.1 / 10
Hellraisers
20000.0 / 10
Strike Commando 2
19884.7 / 10
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
19835.8 / 10
Trojan Eddie
19965.3 / 10
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
19815.0 / 10
Silent Tongue
19934.6 / 10
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
19596.3 / 10
To Walk with Lions
19995.8 / 10
The Hunchback
19975.9 / 10
The Deadly Trackers
19735.6 / 10
A Terrible Beauty
19604.9 / 10
King of the Wind
19906.4 / 10
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
20047.6 / 10
Martin's Day
19856.2 / 10
The Great Kandinsky
19956.0 / 10
Game for Vultures
19794.4 / 10
Return of the Islander
19705.3 / 10
The Snow Goose
19717.3 / 10
The Ghost of Richard Harris
20227.5 / 10
Smilla's Sense of Snow
19976.3 / 10
Camelot
19828.0 / 10
Shake Hands with the Devil
19596.5 / 10
Highpoint
19824.8 / 10
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
19985.8 / 10
Ravagers
19794.3 / 10
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
20017.3 / 10
Savage Hearts
19952.5 / 10
Arthur: King of the Britons
20020.0 / 10
Maigret
19880.0 / 10
Alive and Kicking
19596.9 / 10
The Last Word
19794.0 / 10
The Pearl
20014.4 / 10
Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese
19780.0 / 10
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
20027.2 / 10
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
19764.0 / 10
Exterior Day
20220.0 / 10
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
20050.0 / 10
Crew
Bloomfield
19705.1 / 10
The Return of a Man Called Horse
19765.7 / 10