Richard Harris

Richard Harris (72)

1930-10-01 - 2002-10-25 | Limerick City, Munster, Ireland

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.

On Movies

  • The Apocalypse
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • My Kingdom
  • The Pearl
  • Gladiator
  • Grizzly Falls
  • To Walk with Lions
  • The Barber of Siberia
  • Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
  • This Is the Sea
  • The Hunchback
  • Smilla's Sense of Snow
  • Trojan Eddie
  • Cry, the Beloved Country
  • The Great Kandinsky
  • Savage Hearts
  • Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
  • Abraham
  • Silent Tongue
  • Unforgiven
  • Patriot Games
  • The Field
  • King of the Wind
  • Mack the Knife
  • Strike Commando 2
  • Maigret
  • Martin's Day
  • Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
  • Camelot
  • Highpoint
  • Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
  • Tarzan the Ape Man
  • The Last Word
  • Ravagers
  • Game for Vultures
  • The Wild Geese
  • Golden Rendezvous
  • Orca
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • The Cassandra Crossing
  • The Return of a Man Called Horse
  • Robin and Marian
  • Echoes of a Summer
  • Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
  • Juggernaut
  • 99 and 44/100% Dead
  • The Deadly Trackers
  • Man in the Wilderness
  • The Snow Goose
  • Bloomfield
  • Cromwell
  • A Man Called Horse
  • The Molly Maguires
  • Camelot
  • Caprice
  • Hawaii
  • The Bible: In the Beginning...
  • The Heroes of Telemark
  • Major Dundee
  • The Three Faces
  • Red Desert
  • This Sporting Life
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • The Guns of Navarone
  • The Long and the Short and the Tall
  • A Terrible Beauty
  • The Wreck of the Mary Deare
  • Alive and Kicking
  • Shake Hands with the Devil

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