Richard Harris
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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.
Known for
Credits
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
as Albus Dumbledore
Gladiator (2000)
as Marcus Aurelius
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
as Albus Dumbledore
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
as Abbé Faria
Unforgiven (1992)
as English Bob
Patriot Games (1992)
as Paddy O'Neil
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
as Cain
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
as Seaman John Mills
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
as Knut Straud
Orca (1977)
as Captain Nolan
The Wild Geese (1978)
as Capt. Rafer Janders
Savage Hearts (1995)
as Sir Roger Foxley
Red Desert (1964)
as Corrado Zeller
Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)
as James Porter
The Hunchback (1997)
as Dom Frollo
Major Dundee (1965)
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
Juggernaut (1974)
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
as Dr. Andreas Tork
A Man Called Horse (1970)
as John Morgan
Robin and Marian (1976)
as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
Abraham (1993)
as Abraham
Camelot (1967)
as King Arthur
The Molly Maguires (1970)
as James McKenna
Man in the Wilderness (1971)
as Zachary Bass
Highpoint (1984)
as Lewis Kinney
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
as James Jarvis
Cromwell (1970)
as Oliver Cromwell
The Barber of Siberia (1998)
as Douglas McCraken
The Field (1990)
as 'Bull' McCabe
The Apocalypse (2004)
as John
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! (1998)
as Self (archive footage)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
as Frank
This Sporting Life (1963)
as Frank Machin
Hawaii (1966)
as Rafer Hoxworth
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
as Higgins
The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
as John Morgan / Horse
This Is the Sea (1997)
as Old Man Jacobs
Silent Tongue (1994)
as Prescott Roe
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)
as Cpl. Johnstone
The Deadly Trackers (1973)
as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
The Three Faces (1965)
as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983)
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
Golden Rendezvous (1977)
as John Carter
Strike Commando 2 (1988)
as Major Vic Jenkins
Maigret (1988)
as Jules Maigret
The Last Word (1979)
as Danny Travis
Caprice (1967)
as Christopher White
Echoes of a Summer (1976)
as Eugene
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute (1988)
as Self
Camelot (1982)
as King Arthur
Ravagers (1979)
as Falk
A Terrible Beauty (1960)
as Sean Reilly
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter (2004)
as Self
99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
as Harry Crown
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' (2005)
as Self
Martin's Day (1985)
as Martin Steckert
Mack the Knife (1989)
as Mr. Peachum
Exterior Day (2022)
Actor
Gulliver's Travels (1977)
as Gulliver
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
as Terence O'Brien
The Pearl (2001)
as Dr. Karl
Grizzly Falls (1999)
as Old Harry
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World (2001)
as Self
My Kingdom (2001)
as Sandeman
To Walk with Lions (1999)
as George Adamson
King of the Wind (1990)
as King George II
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981)
as Jason
Game for Vultures (1979)
as David Swansey
Strength and Honor: Production Pods (2005)
as Self
Trojan Eddie (1996)
as John Power
The Snow Goose (1971)
as Philip Rhayadar
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La (1973)
as Self
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese (1978)
as Self
The Great Kandinsky (1995)
as Ernest Kandinsky
Arthur: King of the Britons (2002)
as Presenter
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' (2002)
as Self
Alive and Kicking (1959)
as Lover
Hellraisers (2000)
as Self
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway (2003)
Actor
Bloomfield (1970)
as Eitan
Return of the Islander (1970)
as Narrator (voice)