Richard Harris
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.
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Movies (44)
Exterior Day
2022
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
as Self
2005
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
as Self
2005
The Apocalypse
as John
2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
2004
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
The Apocalypse
as Apostle John
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Albus Dumbledore
2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Self
2002
Arthur: King of the Britons
as Presenter
2002
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Abbé Faria
2002
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
as Self
2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Albus Dumbledore
2001
My Kingdom
as Sandeman
2001
The Pearl
as Dr. Karl
2001
Hellraisers
as Self
2000
Gladiator
as Marcus Aurelius
2000
Grizzly Falls
as Old Harry
1999
To Walk with Lions
as George Adamson
1999
The Barber of Siberia
as Douglas McCraken
1998
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
as Self (archive footage)
1998
This Is the Sea
as Old Man Jacobs
1997
The Hunchback
as Dom Frollo
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Dr. Andreas Tork
1997
Trojan Eddie
as John Power
1996
Cry, the Beloved Country
as James Jarvis
1995
The Great Kandinsky
as Ernest Kandinsky
1995
Savage Hearts
as Sir Roger Foxley
1995
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Frank
1993
Abraham
as Abraham
1993
Silent Tongue
as Prescott Roe
1993
Unforgiven
as English Bob
1992
Patriot Games
as Paddy O'Neil
1992
The Field
as 'Bull' McCabe
1990
King of the Wind
as King George II
1990
Mack the Knife
as Mr. Peachum
1989
Strike Commando 2
as Major Vic Jenkins
1988
Maigret
as Jules Maigret
1988
Martin's Day
as Martin Steckert
1985
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
1983
Camelot
as King Arthur
1982
Highpoint
as Lewis Kinney
1982
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
as Jason
1981
Tarzan the Ape Man
as James Porter
1981
