Richard Harris
Acting
1930-10-01 · Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
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
Exterior Day
2022 · Movie
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005 · Movie
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005 · Movie
The Apocalypse
2004 · Movie
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004 · Movie
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003 · Movie
Julius Caesar
2002 · Series
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · Movie
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002 · Movie
Arthur: King of the Britons
2002 · Movie
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002 · Movie
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001 · Movie
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · Movie
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001 · Series
My Kingdom
2001 · Movie
The Pearl
2001 · Movie
Bette
2000 · Series
Hellraisers
2000 · Movie
Gladiator
2000 · Movie
Grizzly Falls
1999 · Movie
To Walk with Lions
1999 · Movie
The Barber of Siberia
1998 · Movie
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998 · Movie
This Is the Sea
1997 · Movie
The Hunchback
1997 · Movie
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997 · Movie
Trojan Eddie
1996 · Movie
Cry, the Beloved Country
1995 · Movie
The Great Kandinsky
1995 · Movie
Savage Hearts
1995 · Movie
Abraham
1994 · Series
Silent Tongue
1994 · Movie
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993 · Movie
Abraham
1993 · Movie
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993 · Series
Unforgiven
1992 · Movie
Patriot Games
1992 · Movie
The Field
1990 · Movie
King of the Wind
1990 · Movie
Mack the Knife
1989 · Movie
Strike Commando 2
1988 · Movie
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988 · Movie
Maigret
1988 · Movie
Martin's Day
1985 · Movie
Highpoint
1984 · Movie
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
1983 · Movie
Camelot
1982 · Movie
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981 · Movie
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981 · Movie
Russell Harty
1980 · Series
The Last Word
1979 · Movie
Ravagers
1979 · Movie
Game for Vultures
1979 · Movie
The Wild Geese
1978 · Movie
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978 · Movie
Golden Rendezvous
1977 · Movie
Orca
1977 · Movie
Gulliver's Travels
1977 · Movie
The Cassandra Crossing
1976 · Movie
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976 · Movie
Robin and Marian
1976 · Movie
Echoes of a Summer
1976 · Movie
Dinah!
1974 · Series
Juggernaut
1974 · Movie
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974 · Movie
Flick Flack
1974 · Series
The Deadly Trackers
1973 · Movie
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1973 · Movie
Man in the Wilderness
1971 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
The Snow Goose
1971 · Movie
Bloomfield
1970 · Movie
Cromwell
1970 · Movie
A Man Called Horse
1970 · Movie
The Molly Maguires
1970 · Movie
Return of the Islander
1970 · Movie
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
Camelot
1967 · Movie
Caprice
1967 · Movie
Hawaii
1966 · Movie
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966 · Movie
The Heroes of Telemark
1965 · Movie
Major Dundee
1965 · Movie
The Three Faces
1965 · Movie
Red Desert
1964 · Movie
The Hollywood Palace
1964 · Series
This Sporting Life
1963 · Movie
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Movie
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961 · Movie
A Terrible Beauty
1960 · Movie
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959 · Movie
Alive and Kicking
1959 · Movie
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959 · Movie
Cinépanorama
1956 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series