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