George Harrison
Acting • Born 1943-02-25 – Died 2001-11-29
Biography
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 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.
Filmography
261 credits
A Hard Day's Night
Movie • 1964
George
The Movie Orgy
Movie • 1968
Self (archive footage)
El Rey en Londres
Movie • 1966
Self (archive footage)
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
Movie • 1965
Self (archive footage)
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Movie • 1978
Self (archive footage)
Let It Be
Movie • 1970
Self - The Beatles (uncredited)
John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Roy Orbison at the BBC
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
The Society of the Spectacle
Movie • 1974
Self (archive footage)
Magical Mystery Tour
Movie • 1967
Self / Magician Looking Through Telescope
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Taj Mahal and Friends
Movie • 1987
Self
Jimi Plays Monterey
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Imagine: John Lennon
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Checking Out
Movie • 1988
Cleaner
Beatles Stories
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
Movie • 1964
Self (archive footage)
The Day the Music Died
Movie • 1977
Self
Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Help!
Movie • 1965
George
Things They Said Today
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Beatles chronology (1962-1970)
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
Movie • 1978
The Interviewer (Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer)
The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Louder Than Rock
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
Movie • 2007
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The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
Movie • 1992
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Take Your Pills
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
George Harrison - The Quiet one
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles and India
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
Movie • 1977
Self
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Movie • 1999
Self
THE BEATLES in HELP!
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries
Movie • 2009
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The Beatles Unauthorized
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: A Magical History Tour
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Watching Rainbows
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum
Movie • 1964
Self
Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles on Record
Movie • 2009
Self
The Concert for Bangladesh
Movie • 1972
Self
The Mersey Sound
Movie • 1963
Self
The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
The Prince's Trust Rock Gala
Movie • 1990
Self (archive footage)
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Our World
Movie • 1967
Self
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
All My Loving
Movie • 1968
Self
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Movie • 1982
Self (archive footage)
Good Ol' Freda
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles Come to Town
Movie • 1963
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The Beatles: Something
Movie • 1969
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The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Revolution
Movie • 1968
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Mighty Good: The Beatles
Movie • 1977
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You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Movie • 1995
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The Beatles Explosion
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966
Movie • 2012
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The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
Movie • 2018
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Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
Movie • 1993
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The Beatles: Parting Ways
Movie • 2009
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Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles and the BBC
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966)
Movie • 1966
Self
The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966
Movie • 1966
Self
Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: A Celebration
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
This Is Elvis
Movie • 1981
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Movie Life of George
Movie • 1989
Self
Life of Brian
Movie • 1979
Mr. Papadopolous (uncredited)
The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool
Movie • 1963
Self
The Beatles - 1967-1970
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Understanding Lennon/McCartney
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
Movie • 2003
Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer (archive footage)
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
Movie • 2022
Self
Beatles på Sverigeturné
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
Movie • 1992
Self (archive footage)
Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel
Movie • 1978
Self
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
Movie • 1999
Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)
Reflections on Love
Movie • 1966
Self (archive footage)
Genius
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
If These Walls Could Sing
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Wingspan
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Raga
Movie • 1971
Self
Fun with the Fab Four
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
My Sweet Lord in the Far East
Movie • 1991
Self
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Chase
Movie • 1965
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles 1
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Movie • 1969
Self - Guitar, Vocals
The Beatles 1+
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Television: The First Fifty Years
Movie • 1999
Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles Mod Odyssey
Movie • 1968
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The Beatles: Around the World
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
The Beach Boys
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
The Bannfoot Ferry
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Water
Movie • 1985
Himself - The Singing Rebels' Band
Carl Perkins & Friends: Blue Suede Shoes - A Rockabilly Session
Movie • 1985
Self
Concert for George
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Becoming the Beatles
Movie • 2012
Self
Ringo
Movie • 1978
George Harrison
The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
Movie • 1969
Self (archive footage)
Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties
Movie • 1986
Self
British Rock: The First Wave
Movie • 1985
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2
Movie • 2005
Self - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India
Movie • 2010
Self
The Beatles Sing for Shell
Movie • 1964
Self
The Beatles in Australia
Movie • 1964
Self
George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
George Harrison: The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
The Compleat Beatles
Movie • 1982
Self (archive footage)
I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
How the Beatles Changed the World
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Beatles: The Journey
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary
Movie • 1994
Self (archive footage)
Free to Rock
Movie • 2017
Self - The Beatles (archive footage)
Hagström: Everything in Music
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
Movie • 2000
Self
Night Lunch
Movie • 1975
Self
All You Need Is Love
Movie • 1967
Self
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
Movie • 2018
Self
Beatles: Big Beat Box
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
Tom Petty: Going Home
Movie • 1994
Self
The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands
Movie • 1964
Self
An Accidental Studio
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Shanghai Surprise
Movie • 1986
Nightclub Singer
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Origins
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles Story
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Movie • 2017
Self - Musician (archive footage)
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Imagine
Movie • 1972
Self
George Harrison - All Things Pass
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4
Movie • 2011
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3
Movie • 2011
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One
Movie • 1969
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two
Movie • 1969
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three
Movie • 1969
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany
Movie • 1966
Self - The Beatles
Yellow Submarine
Movie • 1968
George (uncredited)
Around the Beatles
Movie • 1964
Self
Pop Gear
Movie • 1965
Self
The Beatles: Live in Paris
Movie • 1965
Self
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Meeting the Beatles in India
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Beatles Biggest Secrets
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Curves Contours & Body Horns
Movie • 1993
Self
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles
Movie • 1974
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Love
Movie • 2006
Self
Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
Movie • 1964
Self - The Beatles Member
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Live In Denmark 1969
Movie • 2014
Self
The Winged Beetle
Movie • 2012
Self
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
Movie • 1969
Self
George Harrison: All things must pass
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited
Movie • 2005
Self
Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Monument
Movie • 1967
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Naqoyqatsi
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live
Movie • 1993
Self
The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966)
Movie • 1966
Self - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
My Generation
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Beatles Electroniques
Movie • 1969
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Beatles: The Complete Story
Movie • 2010
Self (Archive Footage)
Beatles '64
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Superswede: A film about Ronnie Peterson
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
No Hamburg, No Beatles
Movie • 2024
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Ringo Starr: One of Them
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Året var 1967
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
To John With Love
Movie • 2006
Self
Året var 1963
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Elvis: King of Entertainment
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Abbey Road
Movie • 1969
Self (audio)
How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland
Movie • 2008
self
Palme
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles - Trilogy
Movie • 2003
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The Beatles
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Their Golden Age
Movie • 2012
Self
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Movie • 2021
Self (archival footage)
George Harrison: Live at The Royal Albert Hall
Movie • 1992
George Harrison: Live in North America 1974
Movie • 1974
George Harrison: Live in Japan
Movie • 1991
TWST / Things We Said Today
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965
Movie • 2008
Self (Archive Footage)
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Movie • 1983
Self
Meet the Beatles
Movie • 2005
Self (Archival footage)
Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 2
Movie • 1987
Self
Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
A Love Letter to the Beatles
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Movie • 2003
Self
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
Movie • 2025
Self
George Harrison: In Performance
Movie • 2008
The Summer of Love
Movie • 2017
Man on the Run
Movie • 2026
Self (archive footage)
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
Movie • 1992
Evolver 62
Movie • 2026
Self (archive footage)
Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
Movie • 1967
Self
La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
Movie • 2024
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
George Harrison (voice)
The Beatles: Get Back
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
This Is Pop
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Musical Guest
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
TV • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Disco
TV • 1971
Self
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
TV • 1967
Self (uncredited)
The Beatles Anthology
TV • 1995
Self
Top of the Pops
TV • 1964
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
History 101
TV • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
TV • 2018
Self (archive footage)
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
TV • 2011
Self (archive footage)
McCartney 3, 2, 1
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Classic Albums
TV • 1997
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
20th Century Greats
TV • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Top of the Pops
TV • 1964
Sherwood
TV • 2022
Nikko
Timewatch
TV • 1982
Self (archive footage)
Morecambe & Wise
TV • 1961
Self
The Beatles
TV • 1965
Self (vocals musical segments) (uncredited)
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)
In Their Own Words
TV • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Frost on Sunday
TV • 1968
Self (as The Beatles)