Richard Harris
Age: N/A | From: Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
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Movie Involvements: 74
TV Involvements: 5
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
(2001) Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(2002) Albus Dumbledore
Gladiator
(2000) Marcus Aurelius
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
(1993) Self
The Oscars
(1953) Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(1951) Philip Rhayadar
Julius Caesar
(2003) Lucius Cornelius Silla
The Count of Monte Cristo
(2002) Abbé FariaActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2005 | Self | |
| 2004 | John | |
| Self | ||
| 2003 | N/A | |
| Lucius Cornelius Silla | ||
| Opaz (english voice) | ||
| 2002 | Sulla | |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ||
| Albus Dumbledore | ||
| Self | ||
| Abbé Faria | ||
| 2001 | Self | |
| Albus Dumbledore | ||
| Self | ||
| Sandeman | ||
| Dr. Karl | ||
| 2000 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| Marcus Aurelius | ||
| 1999 | Old Harry | |
| George Adamson | ||
| 1998 | Douglas McCraken | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1997 | Old Man Jacobs | |
| Dom Frollo | ||
| Dr. Andreas Tork | ||
| 1996 | John Power | |
| 1995 | James Jarvis | |
| Ernest Kandinsky | ||
| Sir Roger Foxley | ||
| 1993 | Frank | |
| Abraham | ||
| Self | ||
| Prescott Roe | ||
| 1992 | English Bob | |
| Paddy O'Neil | ||
| 1990 | 'Bull' McCabe | |
| King George II | ||
| 1989 | Mr. Peachum | |
| 1988 | Major Vic Jenkins | |
| Jules Maigret | ||
| 1985 | Martin Steckert | |
| 1983 | John Morgan - Man Called Horse | |
| 1982 | King Arthur | |
| Lewis Kinney | ||
| 1981 | Jason | |
| James Porter | ||
| 1980 | N/A | |
| David Swansey | ||
| 1979 | Danny Travis | |
| Falk | ||
| 1978 | Capt. Rafer Janders | |
| Himself | ||
| 1977 | John Carter | |
| Captain Nolan | ||
| Gulliver | ||
| 1976 | Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain | |
| John Morgan / Horse | ||
| Richard the Lionheart / King Richard | ||
| Eugene | ||
| Self | ||
| 1974 | Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon | |
| Harry Crown | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1973 | Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick | |
| 1971 | Zachary Bass | |
| Philip Rhayadar | ||
| 1970 | Eitan | |
| Oliver Cromwell | ||
| John Morgan | ||
| James McKenna | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1968 | Self - Guest | |
| 1967 | King Arthur | |
| Christopher White | ||
| 1966 | Rafer Hoxworth | |
| Cain | ||
| 1965 | Knut Straud | |
| Captain Benjamin Tyreen | ||
| Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri") | ||
| 1964 | Corrado Zeller | |
| Self - Singer | ||
| 1963 | Frank Machin | |
| 1962 | Seaman John Mills | |
| Self | ||
| 1961 | Self | |
| Self - Co-Host | ||
| Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF | ||
| Cpl. Johnstone | ||
| 1960 | Sean Reilly | |
| 1959 | Higgins | |
| Lover | ||
| Terence O'Brien | ||
| 1956 | Self | |
| 1953 | Self | |
| 1951 | Philip Rhayadar | |
| 1948 | Self - Singer | |
| Self | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Executive Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Screenplay | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |