
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 |