Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 25, 1943
Died
Nov 29, 2001
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, UK
Credits
313 titles
George Harrison
Biography
George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's break-up, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the acclaimed and successful triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which came two singles: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, another former Beatle, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised a major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. Besides being a musician, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna. He was married twice, to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1974, and for 23 years to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. He is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.
Known For
Filmography
Man on the Run
Self (archive footage)
Evolver 62
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
Self
A Love Letter to the Beatles
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
Self
The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere
Self (archive footage)
TWST / Things We Said Today
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles
Self (archive footage)
David Frost Vs
self (archive footage)
La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
No Hamburg, No Beatles
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Beatles '64
Self (archive footage)
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles LOVE
Music
The Bannfoot Ferry
Self (archive footage)
The Beach Boys
Self (archive footage)
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles and the BBC
Self (archive footage)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Self (archive footage)
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Self (archive footage)
By My Side
Music
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
Louder Than Rock
Self (archive footage)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Self (archive footage)
Roy Orbison at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
Self
If These Walls Could Sing
Self (archive footage)
Ringo Starr: One of Them
Self (archive footage)
Sherwood
Nikko
Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
Self
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
Self (archive footage)
How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Get Back
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles and India
Self (archive footage)
McCartney 3, 2, 1
Self (archive footage)
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Self (archival footage)
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Self (archive footage)
This Is Pop
Self (archive footage)
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
Meeting the Beatles in India
Self (archive footage)
History 101
Self (archive footage)
The Shadows At Sixty
Self (Archive Footage)
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
Self (archive footage)
Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
Self (archive footage)
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
Self (archive footage)
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
Self (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
An Accidental Studio
Self (archive footage)
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2
Self (archive footage)
Yesterday
Songs