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Richard Harris
Born · October 1, 1930
Died · October 25, 2002 (72 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Bio
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.
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Self (archive footage)
7.5
2022
Exterior Day
0.0
2022
Honest Trailers
Albus Dumbledore (archive footage) · (1 episode)
6.4
2012
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Self
7.1
2005
The Apocalypse
John
5.3
2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
7.4
2004
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
0.0
2003
Julius Caesar
Lucius Cornelius Silla · (2 episodes)
6.0
2003
Kaena: The Prophecy
Opaz (english voice)
5.9
2003
Julius Caesar
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
6.6
2002
Julius Cäsar
Sulla · (2 episodes)
0.0
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Albus Dumbledore
7.7
2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
7.2
2002
Arthur: King of the Britons
Presenter
0.0
2002
The Count of Monte Cristo
Abbé Faria
7.7
2002
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Self
7.3
2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Albus Dumbledore
7.9
2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self · (1 episode)
5.9
2001
My Kingdom
Sandeman
5.1
2001
The Pearl
Dr. Karl
4.4
2001
Bette
(1 episode)
7.9
2000
Hellraisers
Self
0.0
2000
Gladiator
Marcus Aurelius
8.2
2000
Grizzly Falls
Old Harry
5.9
1999
To Walk with Lions
George Adamson
6.1
1999
The Barber of Siberia
Douglas McCraken
7.1
1998
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
Self (archive footage)
5.8
1998
This Is the Sea
Old Man Jacobs
5.7
1997
The Hunchback
Dom Frollo
5.9
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Dr. Andreas Tork
6.3
1997
Trojan Eddie
John Power
5.3
1996
Cry, the Beloved Country
James Jarvis
6.7
1995
The Great Kandinsky
Ernest Kandinsky
6.0
1995
Savage Hearts
Sir Roger Foxley
0.0
1995
Abraham
Abraham · (2 episodes)
8.0
1994
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Frank
6.3
1993
Abraham
Abraham
6.9
1993
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1993
Silent Tongue
Prescott Roe
4.8
1993
Unforgiven
English Bob
7.9
1992
Patriot Games
Paddy O'Neil
6.7
1992
The Field
'Bull' McCabe
7.0
1990
King of the Wind
King George II
6.4
1990
Mack the Knife
Mr. Peachum
6.6
1989
Strike Commando 2
Major Vic Jenkins
5.0
1988
Maigret
Jules Maigret
0.0
1988
Martin's Day
Martin Steckert
6.2
1985
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
John Morgan - Man Called Horse
5.8
1983
Camelot
King Arthur
8.0
1982
Highpoint
Lewis Kinney
4.8
1982
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Jason
5.0
1981
Tarzan the Ape Man
James Porter
4.1
1981
Russell Harty
(1 episode)
0.0
1980
The Last Word
Danny Travis
4.0
1979
Ravagers
Falk
4.3
1979
Game for Vultures
David Swansey
4.5
1979
The Wild Geese
Capt. Rafer Janders
6.8
1978
Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese
Self
0.0
1978
Golden Rendezvous
John Carter
4.9
1977
Orca
Captain Nolan
6.1
1977
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver
5.6
1977
The Cassandra Crossing
Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
6.3
1976
The Return of a Man Called Horse
John Morgan / Horse
5.6
1976
Robin and Marian
Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
6.3
1976
Echoes of a Summer
Eugene
5.6
1976
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
Self
4.0
1976
Dinah!
Self · (1 episode)
6.5
1974
Juggernaut
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
6.1
1974
99 and 44/100% Dead
Harry Crown
4.6
1974
Flick Flack
(1 episode)
0.0
1974
The Deadly Trackers
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
5.6
1973
Man in the Wilderness
Zachary Bass
6.2
1971
The Snow Goose
Philip Rhayadar
7.3
1971
Bloomfield
Eitan
5.1
1970
Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
6.6
1970
A Man Called Horse
John Morgan
6.4
1970
The Molly Maguires
James McKenna
6.3
1970
Return of the Islander
Narrator (voice)
5.3
1970
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
6.7
1968
Camelot
King Arthur
6.2
1967
Caprice
Christopher White
5.9
1967
Hawaii
Rafer Hoxworth
6.4
1966
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Cain
7.3
1966
The Heroes of Telemark
Knut Straud
6.9
1965
Major Dundee
Captain Benjamin Tyreen
6.7
1965
The Three Faces
Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
5.6
1965
Red Desert
Corrado Zeller
7.4
1964
The Hollywood Palace
Self - Singer · (1 episode)
4.5
1964
This Sporting Life
Frank Machin
7.0
1963
Mutiny on the Bounty
Seaman John Mills
7.0
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (6 episodes)
7.4
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host · (1 episode)
5.1
1961
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · (1 episode)
5.1
1961
The Guns of Navarone
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
7.3
1961
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Cpl. Johnstone
7.1
1961
A Terrible Beauty
Sean Reilly
4.9
1960
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Higgins
6.2
1959
Alive and Kicking
Lover
6.9
1959
Shake Hands with the Devil
Terence O'Brien
6.5
1959
Cinépanorama
Self · (1 episode)
8.0
1956
The Oscars
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Philip Rhayadar · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · (2 episodes)
6.6
1948