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.
Acting (80 movies)
Unforgiven
1992
Gladiator
2000
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Bloomfield
1970
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
Abraham
1993
The Guns of Navarone
1961
Robin and Marian
1976
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
The Wild Geese
1978
The Field
1990
Cromwell
1970
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981
Red Desert
1964
Orca
1977
Patriot Games
1992
Cry, the Beloved Country
1995
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
Major Dundee
1965
Juggernaut
1974
The Molly Maguires
1970
A Man Called Horse
1970
Hawaii
1966
Caprice
1967
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
Gulliver's Travels
1977
This Is the Sea
1997
Man in the Wilderness
1971
Golden Rendezvous
1977
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
This Sporting Life
1963
My Kingdom
2001
Camelot
1967
Mack the Knife
1989
Grizzly Falls
1999
The Barber of Siberia
1998
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
The Three Faces
1965
The Apocalypse
2004
Echoes of a Summer
1976
Hellraisers
2000
Strike Commando 2
1988
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
1983
Trojan Eddie
1996
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981
Silent Tongue
1993
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
To Walk with Lions
1999
The Hunchback
1997
The Deadly Trackers
1973
A Terrible Beauty
1960
King of the Wind
1990
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
Martin's Day
1985
Game for Vultures
1979
The Snow Goose
1971
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
Camelot
1982
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
Highpoint
1982
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998
Ravagers
1979
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001
Savage Hearts
1995
Arthur: King of the Britons
2002
Maigret
1988
Alive and Kicking
1959
The Last Word
1979
The Pearl
2001
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1976
Exterior Day
2022
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomfield | 1970 | Screenplay |
| The Return of a Man Called Horse | 1976 | Executive Producer |