Richard Harris
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 1, 1930
- Died
- October 25, 2002
- Birthplace
- 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
Actor
Strength and Honor: Production Pods 2005
as Self
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' 2005
as Self
The Apocalypse 2004
as John
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter 2004
as Self - Professor Dumbledore
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway 2003
Actor
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002
as Albus Dumbledore
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' 2002
as Self
Arthur: King of the Britons 2002
as Presenter
The Count of Monte Cristo 2002
as Abbé Faria
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World 2001
as Self
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2001
as Albus Dumbledore
My Kingdom 2001
as Sandeman
The Pearl 2001
as Dr. Karl
Hellraisers 2000
as Self
Gladiator 2000
as Marcus Aurelius
Grizzly Falls 1999
as Old Harry
To Walk with Lions 1999
as George Adamson
The Barber of Siberia 1998
as Douglas McCraken
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! 1998
as Self (archive footage)
This Is the Sea 1997
as Old Man Jacobs
The Hunchback 1997
as Dom Frollo
Smilla's Sense of Snow 1997
as Dr. Andreas Tork
Trojan Eddie 1996
as John Power
Cry, the Beloved Country 1995
as James Jarvis
- The Great Kandinsky
The Great Kandinsky 1995
as Ernest Kandinsky
Savage Hearts 1995
as Sir Roger Foxley
Silent Tongue 1994
as Prescott Roe
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway 1993
as Frank
Abraham 1993
as Abraham
Unforgiven 1992
as English Bob
Patriot Games 1992
as Paddy O'Neil
The Field 1990
as 'Bull' McCabe
King of the Wind 1990
as King George II
Mack the Knife 1989
as Mr. Peachum
Strike Commando 2 1988
as Major Vic Jenkins
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute 1988
as Self
Maigret 1988
as Jules Maigret
Martin's Day 1985
as Martin Steckert
Highpoint 1984
as Lewis Kinney
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse 1983
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
Camelot 1982
as King Arthur
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid 1981
as Jason
Tarzan the Ape Man 1981
as James Porter
The Last Word 1979
as Danny Travis
Ravagers 1979
as Falk
Game for Vultures 1979
as David Swansey
The Wild Geese 1978
as Capt. Rafer Janders
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese 1978
as Self
Golden Rendezvous 1977
as John Carter
Orca 1977
as Captain Nolan
Gulliver's Travels 1977
as Gulliver
The Cassandra Crossing 1976
as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
The Return of a Man Called Horse 1976
as John Morgan / Horse, Executive Producer
Robin and Marian 1976
as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
Echoes of a Summer 1976
as Eugene
Juggernaut 1974
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
99 and 44/100% Dead 1974
as Harry Crown
The Deadly Trackers 1973
as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La 1973
as Self
Man in the Wilderness 1971
as Zachary Bass
The Snow Goose 1971
as Philip Rhayadar
Bloomfield 1970
as Eitan, Director, Screenplay
Cromwell 1970
as Oliver Cromwell
A Man Called Horse 1970
as John Morgan
The Molly Maguires 1970
as James McKenna
- Return of the Islander
Return of the Islander 1970
as Narrator (voice)
Camelot 1967
as King Arthur
Caprice 1967
as Christopher White
Hawaii 1966
as Rafer Hoxworth
The Bible: In the Beginning... 1966
as Cain
The Heroes of Telemark 1965
as Knut Straud
Major Dundee 1965
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
The Three Faces 1965
as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
Red Desert 1964
as Corrado Zeller
This Sporting Life 1963
as Frank Machin
Mutiny on the Bounty 1962
as Seaman John Mills
The Guns of Navarone 1961
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
The Long and the Short and the Tall 1961
as Cpl. Johnstone
A Terrible Beauty 1960
as Sean Reilly
The Wreck of the Mary Deare 1959
as Higgins
Alive and Kicking 1959
as Lover
Shake Hands with the Devil 1959
as Terence O'Brien
Credits from TMDB.