Richard Harris
Actor
Born October 1, 1930 in 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
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Self
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Self
The Apocalypse
John
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Julius Caesar
Lucius Silla
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Albus Dumbledore
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
Arthur: King of the Britons
Presenter
The Count of Monte Cristo
Abbé Faria
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Self
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Albus Dumbledore
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
My Kingdom
Sandeman
The Pearl
Dr. Karl
Bette
Hellraisers
Self
Gladiator
Marcus Aurelius
Grizzly Falls
Old Harry
To Walk with Lions
George Adamson
The Barber of Siberia
Douglas McCraken
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
Self (archive footage)
This Is the Sea
Old Man Jacobs
The Hunchback
Dom Frollo
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Dr. Andreas Tork
Trojan Eddie
John Power
Cry, the Beloved Country
James Jarvis
Savage Hearts
Sir Roger Foxley
Abraham
Abraham
Silent Tongue
Prescott Roe
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Frank
Abraham
Abraham
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self
Unforgiven
English Bob
Patriot Games
Paddy O'Neil
The Field
'Bull' McCabe
King of the Wind
King George II
Mack the Knife
Mr. Peachum
Strike Commando 2
Major Vic Jenkins
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Self
Maigret
Jules Maigret
Martin's Day
Martin Steckert
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
John Morgan - Man Called Horse
Camelot
King Arthur
Highpoint
Lewis Kinney
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Jason
Tarzan the Ape Man
James Porter
The Last Word
Danny Travis
Ravagers
Falk
Game for Vultures
David Swansey
The Wild Geese
Capt. Rafer Janders
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
Self
Golden Rendezvous
John Carter
Orca
Captain Nolan
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver
The Cassandra Crossing
Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
The Return of a Man Called Horse
John Morgan / Horse
Robin and Marian
Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
Echoes of a Summer
Eugene
Dinah!
Self
Juggernaut
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
99 and 44/100% Dead
Harry Crown
Flick Flack
The Deadly Trackers
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
Self
Man in the Wilderness
Zachary Bass
The Snow Goose
Philip Rhayadar
Bloomfield
Eitan
Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
A Man Called Horse
John Morgan
The Molly Maguires
James McKenna
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Camelot
King Arthur
Caprice
Christopher White
Hawaii
Rafer Hoxworth
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Cain
The Heroes of Telemark
Knut Straud
Major Dundee
Captain Benjamin Tyreen
The Three Faces
Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
Red Desert
Corrado Zeller
The Hollywood Palace
Self - Singer
This Sporting Life
Frank Machin
Mutiny on the Bounty
Seaman John Mills
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
The Guns of Navarone
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Cpl. Johnstone
A Terrible Beauty
Sean Reilly
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Higgins
Alive and Kicking
Lover
Shake Hands with the Devil
Terence O'Brien
Cinépanorama
Self
The Oscars
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Philip Rhayadar
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self