
Richard Harris
Acting • Born 1930-10-01 – Died 2002-10-25
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.
Filmography
99 credits
Unforgiven
Movie • 1992
English Bob

Gladiator
Movie • 2000
Marcus Aurelius

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Movie • 2001
Albus Dumbledore

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Movie • 2002
Albus Dumbledore

Bloomfield
Movie • 1970
Eitan

The Bible: In the Beginning...
Movie • 1966
Cain

Abraham
Movie • 1993
Abraham

The Guns of Navarone
Movie • 1961
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF

Robin and Marian
Movie • 1976
Richard the Lionheart / King Richard

Mutiny on the Bounty
Movie • 1962
Seaman John Mills

The Count of Monte Cristo
Movie • 2002
Abbé Faria

The Wild Geese
Movie • 1978
Capt. Rafer Janders

The Field
Movie • 1990
'Bull' McCabe

Cromwell
Movie • 1970
Oliver Cromwell

The Cassandra Crossing
Movie • 1976
Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain

Tarzan the Ape Man
Movie • 1981
James Porter

Red Desert
Movie • 1964
Corrado Zeller

Orca
Movie • 1977
Captain Nolan

Patriot Games
Movie • 1992
Paddy O'Neil

Cry, the Beloved Country
Movie • 1995
James Jarvis

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Movie • 1993
Frank

The Return of a Man Called Horse
Movie • 1976
John Morgan / Horse

Major Dundee
Movie • 1965
Captain Benjamin Tyreen

Juggernaut
Movie • 1974
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon

The Molly Maguires
Movie • 1970
James McKenna

A Man Called Horse
Movie • 1970
John Morgan

Hawaii
Movie • 1966
Rafer Hoxworth

Caprice
Movie • 1967
Christopher White

The Heroes of Telemark
Movie • 1965
Knut Straud

Gulliver's Travels
Movie • 1977
Gulliver

This Is the Sea
Movie • 1997
Old Man Jacobs

Man in the Wilderness
Movie • 1971
Zachary Bass

Golden Rendezvous
Movie • 1977
John Carter

The Long and the Short and the Tall
Movie • 1961
Cpl. Johnstone

This Sporting Life
Movie • 1963
Frank Machin

My Kingdom
Movie • 2001
Sandeman

Camelot
Movie • 1967
King Arthur

Mack the Knife
Movie • 1989
Mr. Peachum

Grizzly Falls
Movie • 1999
Old Harry

The Barber of Siberia
Movie • 1998
Douglas McCraken

99 and 44/100% Dead
Movie • 1974
Harry Crown

The Three Faces
Movie • 1965
Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")

The Apocalypse
Movie • 2004
John

Echoes of a Summer
Movie • 1976
Eugene

Hellraisers
Movie • 2000
Self

Strike Commando 2
Movie • 1988
Major Vic Jenkins

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
Movie • 1983
John Morgan - Man Called Horse

Trojan Eddie
Movie • 1996
John Power

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Movie • 1981
Jason

Silent Tongue
Movie • 1993
Prescott Roe

The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Movie • 1959
Higgins

To Walk with Lions
Movie • 1999
George Adamson

The Hunchback
Movie • 1997
Dom Frollo

The Deadly Trackers
Movie • 1973
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick

A Terrible Beauty
Movie • 1960
Sean Reilly

King of the Wind
Movie • 1990
King George II

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Movie • 2004
Self

Martin's Day
Movie • 1985
Martin Steckert

The Great Kandinsky
Movie • 1995
Ernest Kandinsky

Game for Vultures
Movie • 1979
David Swansey

Return of the Islander
Movie • 1970
Narrator (voice)

The Snow Goose
Movie • 1971
Philip Rhayadar

Smilla's Sense of Snow
Movie • 1997
Dr. Andreas Tork

Camelot
Movie • 1982
King Arthur

Shake Hands with the Devil
Movie • 1959
Terence O'Brien

Highpoint
Movie • 1982
Lewis Kinney

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage)

Ravagers
Movie • 1979
Falk

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Movie • 2001
Self

Savage Hearts
Movie • 1995
Sir Roger Foxley

Arthur: King of the Britons
Movie • 2002
Presenter

Maigret
Movie • 1988
Jules Maigret

Alive and Kicking
Movie • 1959
Lover

The Last Word
Movie • 1979
Danny Travis

The Pearl
Movie • 2001
Dr. Karl

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Movie • 2003

Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
Movie • 1978
Self

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Movie • 2002
Self

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Movie • 2005
Self

Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
Movie • 1973
Self

Exterior Day
Movie • 2022

Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Movie • 2005
Self

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001
Self

Bette
TV • 2000

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Philip Rhayadar

The Hollywood Palace
TV • 1964
Self - Singer

The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self

Russell Harty
TV • 1980

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self

The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
TV • 1993
Self

Flick Flack
TV • 1974

Julius Caesar
TV • 2002
Lucius Silla

The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self - Co-Host

Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self

The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest

The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self

Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self

Abraham
TV • 1994
Abraham