Richard Harris
73 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 1, 1930
- Died
- Oct 25, 2002 (age 72)
- Place of birth
- Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
- Also known as
- Richard St. John 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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.9 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · Film
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★ 7.7 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · Film
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★ 8.2 Gladiator
2000 · Film
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★ 7.9 Unforgiven
1992 · Film
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★ 7.7 The Count of Monte Cristo
2002 · Film
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★ 6.7 Patriot Games
1992 · Film
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★ 7.3 The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Film
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★ 7.3 Red Desert
1964 · Film
Richard Harris: movies and TV shows
Acting (78)
- 2022
- 2004 The Apocalypse
as John
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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 Philosopher's Stone
as Albus Dumbledore
- 2001 My Kingdom
as Sandeman
- 2001 The Pearl
as Dr. Karl
- 2000
- 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
- 1994 Silent Tongue
as Prescott Roe
- 1993 Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Frank
- 1993 Abraham
as Abraham
- 1993
- 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 Strike Commando 2
as Major Vic Jenkins
- 1988 Maigret
as Jules Maigret
- 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 Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
as Jason
- 1981 Tarzan the Ape Man
as James Porter
- 1980
- 1979 The Last Word
as Danny Travis
- 1979 Ravagers
as Falk
- 1979 Game for Vultures
as David Swansey
- 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 Bloomfield
as Eitan
- 1970 Cromwell
as Oliver Cromwell
- 1970 A Man Called Horse
as John Morgan
- 1970 The Molly Maguires
as James McKenna
- 1970 Return of the Islander
as Narrator (voice)
- 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 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 Alive and Kicking
as Lover
- 1959 Shake Hands with the Devil
as Terence O'Brien
- 1951
Behind the camera (2)
- 1976 The Return of a Man Called Horse
Executive Producer
- 1970 Bloomfield
Director, Screenplay
Talk shows and appearances (22)
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004
- 2002
- 2001
- 2001 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
1 episode
- 2000
- 1998
- 1993
- 1988
- 1978
- 1974 Dinah!
1 episode
- 1974 Flick Flack
1 episode
- 1973
- 1971 Film '72
1 episode
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show
2 episodes
- 1964 The Hollywood Palace
1 episode
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
6 episodes
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
3 episodes
- 1956 Cinépanorama
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
2 episodes