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George Harrison

Executive Producer

George Harrison

· Liverpool, England, UK

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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.

Known for

Filmography

Acting (226)

  1. 2024

  2. 2023

  3. 2022

  4. 2021

  5. 2020

  6. 2019

  7. 2018

  8. 2017

  9. 2016

  10. 2015

  11. 2014

  12. 2013

  13. 2012

  14. 2011

  15. 2010

  16. 2009

  17. 2008

  18. 2007

  19. 2006

  20. 2005

  21. 2004

  22. 2003

  23. 2002

  24. 2001

  25. 2000

  26. 1999

  27. 1997

  28. 1996

  29. 1995

  30. 1994

  31. 1993

  32. 1992

  33. 1991

  34. 1989

  35. 1988

  36. 1987

  37. 1986

  38. 1985

  39. 1982

  40. 1981

  41. 1979

  42. 1978

  43. 1977

  44. 1975

  45. 1974

  46. 1972

  47. 1971

  48. 1970

  49. 1969

  50. 1968

  51. 1967

  52. 1966

  53. 1965

  54. 1964

  55. 1963

  56. 1961

  57. 1948

Sound (23)

  1. 2024

  2. 2022

  3. 2021

  4. 2019

  5. 2016

  6. 2007

  7. 1998

  8. 1986

  9. 1981

  10. 1976

  11. 1970

  12. 1969

  13. 1968

  14. 1967

  15. 1965

  16. 1964

Crew (2)

  1. 2001

  2. 1981

Production (26)

  1. 1990

  2. 1989

  3. 1988

  4. 1987

  5. 1986

  6. 1985

  7. 1984

  8. 1983

  9. 1982

  10. 1981

  11. 1979

  12. 1974

  13. 1972

  14. 1970

  15. 1967

Writing (1)

  1. 1967

Directing (1)

  1. 1967

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