Richard Harris

Known for ActingBorn 1930-10-01Died 2002-10-25Limerick 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Camelot

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Cinépanorama

Gladiator

Arthur: King of the Britons

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

Abraham

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Unforgiven

Bette

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The Count of Monte Cristo

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

The Great Kandinsky

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

Maigret

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Snow Goose

The Barber of Siberia

Abraham

The Bible: In the Beginning...

Red Desert

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

The Guns of Navarone

King of the Wind

The Field

Dinah!

Cry, the Beloved Country

Mutiny on the Bounty

Alive and Kicking

This Sporting Life

The Wild Geese

Patriot Games

The Heroes of Telemark

The Oscars

The Long and the Short and the Tall

The Dick Cavett Show

Mack the Knife

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

Major Dundee

The Ed Sullivan Show

Cromwell

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Martin's Day

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

A Man Called Horse