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Richard Harris
Actor, Producer, Director, Writer
Born October 1, 1930Died October 25, 2002 (72 years)
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.
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.
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| 2012 | Honest Trailers (TV Series) · as Albus Dumbledore (archive Footage) |
| 2008 | How the West Was Lost · as English Bob |
| 2004 | The Pearl · as Dr. Karl |
| 2003 | Kaena: The Prophecy · as Opaz |
| 2003 | Build a Scene · as Professor Albus Dumbledore |
| 2002 | Julius Caesar (TV Series) · as Lucius Silla |
| 2002 | The Apocalypse · as John |
| 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets · as Albus Dumbledore |
| 2002 | Capturing the Stone: A Conversation with the Filmmakers · as Albus Dumbledore |
| 2002 | Arthur: King of the Britons · as Presenter |
| 2002 | The Count of Monte Cristo · as Abbé Faria |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone · as Albus Dumbledore |
| 2001 | My Kingdom · as Sandeman |
| 2000 | Bette (TV Series) |
| 2000 | Gladiator · as Marcus Aurelius |
| 1999 | Grizzly Falls · as Old Harry |
| 1999 | To Walk with Lions · as George Adamson |
| 1998 | The Barber of Siberia · as Douglas Mccraken |
| 1997 | This Is the Sea · as Old Man Jacobs |
| 1997 | The Hunchback · as Dom Frollo |
| 1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow · as Dr. Andreas Tork |
| 1996 | Trojan Eddie · as John Power |
| 1995 | Cry, the Beloved Country · as James Jarvis |
| 1995 | The Great Kandinsky · as Ernest Kandinsky |
| 1995 | Savage Hearts · as Sir Roger Foxley |
| 1993 | Wrestling Ernest Hemingway · as Frank |
| 1993 | Abraham · as Abraham |
| 1993 | Abraham (TV Series) · as Abraham |
| 1993 | Silent Tongue · as Prescott Roe |
| 1992 | Unforgiven · as English Bob |
| 1992 | Patriot Games · as Paddy O'neil |
| 1992 | The Secret World of Spying · as Paddy O'neil |
| 1990 | The Field · as 'bull' Mccabe |
| 1989 | King of the Wind · as King George Ii |
| 1989 | Mack the Knife · as Mr. Peachum |
| 1988 | Strike Commando 2 · as Major Vic Jenkins |
| 1988 | Maigret · as Jules Maigret |
| 1985 | Wild Geese II · as Capt. Rafer Janders |
| 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 | The Last Word · as Danny Travis |
| 1979 | Game for Vultures · as David Swansey |
| 1979 | Ravagers · as Falk |
| 1978 | The Wild Geese · as Capt. Rafer Janders |
| 1977 | Golden Rendezvous · as John Carter |
| 1977 | Orca · as Captain Nolan |
| 1977 | Gulliver's Travels · as Gulliver |
| 1976 | 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 |
| 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 | The Hero · as Eitan |
| 1970 | Cromwell · as Oliver Cromwell |
| 1970 | The Molly Maguires · as James Mckenna |
| 1970 | A Man Called Horse · as John Morgan |
| 1967 | Camelot · as King Arthur |
| 1967 | Caprice · as Christopher White |
| 1966 | Hawaii · as Rafer Hoxworth |
| 1966 | The Bible in the Beginning... · as Cain |
| 1965 | The Heroes of Telemark · as Knut Straud |
| 1965 | Major Dundee · as Captain Benjamin Tyreen |
| 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 | Jungle Fighters · as Cpl. Johnstone |
| 1960 | The Night Fighters · as Sean Reilly |
| 1959 | The Wreck of the Mary Deare · as Higgins |
| 1959 | Shake Hands with the Devil · as Terence O'brien |
| 1958 | Alive and Kicking · as Lover |
| 1957 | The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Major Gaylord |
| 1955 | ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Michael O'riordan |
| 1955 | ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Dan Galvin |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Philip Rhayadar |