Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 01, 1930
Died
Oct 25, 2002
Place of Birth
Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Credits
100 titles
Richard 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.
Known For
Filmography
Exterior Day
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Self
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Self
The Apocalypse
John
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Julius Caesar
Lucius Silla
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Albus Dumbledore
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
Arthur: King of the Britons
Presenter
The Count of Monte Cristo
Abbé Faria
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Self
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Albus Dumbledore
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
My Kingdom
Sandeman
The Pearl
Dr. Karl
Bette
Hellraisers
Self
Gladiator
Marcus Aurelius
Grizzly Falls
Old Harry
To Walk with Lions
George Adamson
The Barber of Siberia
Douglas McCraken
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
Self (archive footage)
This Is the Sea
Old Man Jacobs
The Hunchback
Dom Frollo
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Dr. Andreas Tork
Trojan Eddie
John Power
Cry, the Beloved Country
James Jarvis
The Great Kandinsky
Ernest Kandinsky
Savage Hearts
Sir Roger Foxley
Abraham
Abraham
Silent Tongue
Prescott Roe
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Frank
Abraham
Abraham
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self
Unforgiven
English Bob
Patriot Games
Paddy O'Neil
The Field
'Bull' McCabe
King of the Wind
King George II
Mack the Knife
Mr. Peachum
Strike Commando 2
Major Vic Jenkins
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Self
Maigret
Jules Maigret
Martin's Day
Martin Steckert
Highpoint
Lewis Kinney
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
John Morgan - Man Called Horse
Camelot
King Arthur
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Jason
Tarzan the Ape Man
James Porter
Russell Harty