Richard Harris
Known for: Acting
Born: October 1, 1930
Died: October 25, 2002
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
83 movies · 17 TV shows, newest first
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Exterior Day
2022
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Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
7.5
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
5.5
The Apocalypse
2004
7.6
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
NR
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
6.0
Julius Caesar
2002
7.7
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
7.4
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
8.0
Arthur: King of the Britons
2002
7.7
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
7.6
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001
7.9
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
6.1
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
5.5
My Kingdom
2001
4.8
The Pearl
2001
7.8
Bette
2000
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Hellraisers
2000
8.2
Gladiator
2000
6.0
Grizzly Falls
1999
5.8
To Walk with Lions
1999
7.0
The Barber of Siberia
1998
6.1
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998
6.0
This Is the Sea
1997
5.9
The Hunchback
1997
6.4
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
5.3
Trojan Eddie
1996
6.8
Cry, the Beloved Country
19957.5
The Great Kandinsky
1995
4.3
Savage Hearts
1995
7.2
Abraham
1994
4.7
Silent Tongue
1994
6.3
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
7.1
Abraham
1993
7.0
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
7.9
Unforgiven
1992
6.7
Patriot Games
1992
7.0
The Field
1990
7.0
King of the Wind
1990
6.6
Mack the Knife
1989
4.7
Strike Commando 2
1988
6.5
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988
7.5
Maigret
1988
6.2
Martin's Day
1985
5.1
Highpoint
1984
5.6
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
1983
8.5
Camelot
1982
5.0
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981
4.1
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981NR
Russell Harty
1980
5.0
The Last Word
1979
4.5
Ravagers
1979
5.2
Game for Vultures
1979
6.8
The Wild Geese
1978
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Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978
5.5
Golden Rendezvous
1977
6.2
Orca
1977
5.6
Gulliver's Travels
1977
6.2
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
5.7
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
6.3
Robin and Marian
1976
5.4
Echoes of a Summer
1976
7.0
Dinah!
1974
6.3
Juggernaut
1974
5.2
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
NR
Flick Flack
1974
6.0
The Deadly Trackers
1973
5.7
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1973
6.3
Man in the Wilderness
19715.1
Film '72
1971
7.3
The Snow Goose
1971
5.9
Bloomfield
1970
6.6
Cromwell
1970
6.4
A Man Called Horse
1970
6.4
The Molly Maguires
19705.3
Return of the Islander
1970
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
6.2
Camelot
1967
5.9
Caprice
1967
6.3
Hawaii
1966
7.3
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
6.9
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
6.7
Major Dundee
1965
5.7
The Three Faces
1965
7.3
Red Desert
1964
5.0
The Hollywood Palace
1964
7.0
This Sporting Life
1963
7.1
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
7.3
The Guns of Navarone
1961
6.7
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
5.4
A Terrible Beauty
1960
6.3
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
7.1
Alive and Kicking
1959
6.5
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
8.7
Cinépanorama
1956
7.0
The Oscars
1953
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948