Richard Harris
Born
October 1, 1930
Died
October 25, 2002 (72 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Self (archive footage)
2022
Exterior Day
2022
Honest Trailers
Albus Dumbledore (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2012
Creating the World of Harry Potter
Self - 'Professor Albus Dumbledore' (archive footage) · (8 episodes)
2009
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Self
2005
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Self
2005
The Apocalypse
John
2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
2004
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
Julius Caesar
Lucius Silla · (2 episodes)
2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Albus Dumbledore
2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
2002
Arthur: King of the Britons
Presenter
2002
The Count of Monte Cristo
Abbé Faria
2002
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Self
2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Albus Dumbledore
2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self · (1 episode)
2001
My Kingdom
Sandeman
2001
The Pearl
Dr. Karl
2001
Bette
(1 episode)
2000
Hellraisers
Self
2000
Gladiator
Marcus Aurelius
2000
Grizzly Falls
Old Harry
1999
To Walk with Lions
George Adamson
1999
The Barber of Siberia
Douglas McCraken
1998
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
Self (archive footage)
1998
This Is the Sea
Old Man Jacobs
1997
The Hunchback
Dom Frollo
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Dr. Andreas Tork
1997
Trojan Eddie
John Power
1996
Cry, the Beloved Country
James Jarvis
1995
The Great Kandinsky
Ernest Kandinsky
1995
Savage Hearts
Sir Roger Foxley
1995
Abraham
Abraham · (2 episodes)
1994
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Frank
1993
Abraham
Abraham
1993
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self · (1 episode)
1993
Silent Tongue
Prescott Roe
1993
Unforgiven
English Bob
1992
Patriot Games
Paddy O'Neil
1992
The Field
'Bull' McCabe
1990
King of the Wind
King George II
1990
Mack the Knife
Mr. Peachum
1989
Strike Commando 2
Major Vic Jenkins
1988
Maigret
Jules Maigret
1988
Martin's Day
Martin Steckert
1985
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
John Morgan - Man Called Horse
1983
Camelot
King Arthur
1982
Highpoint
Lewis Kinney
1982
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Jason
1981
Tarzan the Ape Man
James Porter
1981
Russell Harty
(1 episode)
1980
The Last Word
Danny Travis
1979
Ravagers
Falk
1979
Game for Vultures
David Swansey
1979
The Wild Geese
Capt. Rafer Janders
1978
Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese
Self
1978
Golden Rendezvous
John Carter
1977
Orca
Captain Nolan
1977
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver
1977
The Cassandra Crossing
Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
1976
The Return of a Man Called Horse
John Morgan / Horse
1976
Robin and Marian
Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
1976
Echoes of a Summer
Eugene
1976
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
Self
1976
Dinah!
Self · (1 episode)
1974
Juggernaut
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
1974
99 and 44/100% Dead
Harry Crown
1974
Flick Flack
(1 episode)
1974
The Deadly Trackers
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
1973
Man in the Wilderness
Zachary Bass
1971
The Snow Goose
Philip Rhayadar
1971
Bloomfield
Eitan
1970
Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
1970
A Man Called Horse
John Morgan
1970
The Molly Maguires
James McKenna
1970
Return of the Islander
Narrator (voice)
1970
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
1968
Camelot
King Arthur
1967
Caprice
Christopher White
1967
Hawaii
Rafer Hoxworth
1966
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Cain
1966
The Heroes of Telemark
Knut Straud
1965
Major Dundee
Captain Benjamin Tyreen
1965
The Three Faces
Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
1965
Red Desert
Corrado Zeller
1964
The Hollywood Palace
Self - Singer · (1 episode)
1964
This Sporting Life
Frank Machin
1963
Mutiny on the Bounty
Seaman John Mills
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (6 episodes)
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host · (1 episode)
1961
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · (2 episodes)
1961
The Guns of Navarone
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
1961
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Cpl. Johnstone
1961
A Terrible Beauty
Sean Reilly
1960
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Higgins
1959
Alive and Kicking
Lover
1959
Shake Hands with the Devil
Terence O'Brien
1959
Cinépanorama
Self · (1 episode)
1956
The Oscars
Self · (1 episode)
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Philip Rhayadar · (1 episode)
1951
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · (2 episodes)
1948