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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-10-01
Place of birth
Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
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Cast
Unforgiven
1992
7.91
Gladiator
2000
8.22
Bloomfield
1970
5.10
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
7.30
Abraham
1993
6.90
The Guns of Navarone
1961
7.31
Robin and Marian
1976
6.32
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
7.00
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
7.67
The Wild Geese
1978
6.82
The Field
1990
7.00
Cromwell
1970
6.50
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
6.23
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981
4.00
Red Desert
1964
7.34
Orca
1977
6.18
Patriot Games
1992
6.68
Cry, the Beloved Country
1995
6.70
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
6.20
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
5.70
Major Dundee
1965
6.60
Juggernaut
1974
6.20
The Molly Maguires
1970
6.31
A Man Called Horse
1970
6.44
Hawaii
1966
6.30
Caprice
1967
5.78
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
6.90
Gulliver's Travels
1977
5.50
This Is the Sea
1997
5.70
Man in the Wilderness
1971
6.20
Golden Rendezvous
1977
4.90
This Sporting Life
1963
6.97
My Kingdom
2001
5.10
Camelot
1967
6.18
Mack the Knife
1989
6.60
Grizzly Falls
1999
5.86
The Barber of Siberia
1998
7.10
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
4.90
The Three Faces
1965
5.60
The Apocalypse
2004
5.34
Echoes of a Summer
1976
5.10
Hellraisers
2000
0.00
Strike Commando 2
1988
4.55
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
1983
5.80
Trojan Eddie
1996
4.88
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981
4.40
Silent Tongue
1993
4.60
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
6.20
To Walk with Lions
1999
5.61
The Hunchback
1997
5.90
The Deadly Trackers
1973
5.60
A Terrible Beauty
1960
4.90
King of the Wind
1990
6.40
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
7.70
Martin's Day
1985
6.20
The Great Kandinsky
1995
6.00
Game for Vultures
1979
4.40
Return of the Islander
1970
5.30
The Snow Goose
1971
7.00
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
6.30
Camelot
1982
8.00
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
6.50
Highpoint
1982
4.80
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998
5.80
Ravagers
1979
4.30
Savage Hearts
1995
2.50
Arthur: King of the Britons
2002
0.00
Maigret
1988
7.00
Alive and Kicking
1959
6.90
The Last Word
1979
4.00
The Pearl
2001
4.40
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1976
4.00
Exterior Day
2022
0.00
The Apocalypse
2002
0.00