Richard Harris
Acting
Born October 1, 1930 · 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.
Directed (1)
Acting (82)
Exterior Day
2022
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
The Apocalypse
2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
Arthur: King of the Britons
2002
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
My Kingdom
2001
The Pearl
2001
Hellraisers
2000
Gladiator
2000
Grizzly Falls
1999
To Walk with Lions
1999
The Barber of Siberia
1998
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998
This Is the Sea
1997
The Hunchback
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
Trojan Eddie
1996
Cry, the Beloved Country
1995
The Great Kandinsky
1995
Savage Hearts
1995
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
Abraham
1993
Silent Tongue
1993
Unforgiven
1992
Patriot Games
1992
The Field
1990
King of the Wind
1990
Mack the Knife
1989
Strike Commando 2
1988
Maigret
1988
Martin's Day
1985
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
1983
Camelot
1982
Highpoint
1982
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981
The Last Word
1979
Ravagers
1979
Game for Vultures
1979
The Wild Geese
1978
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978
Golden Rendezvous
1977
Orca
1977
Gulliver's Travels
1977
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
Robin and Marian
1976
Echoes of a Summer
1976
Juggernaut
1974
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
The Deadly Trackers
1973
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1973
Man in the Wilderness
1971
The Snow Goose
1971
Bloomfield
1970
Cromwell
1970
A Man Called Horse
1970
The Molly Maguires
1970
Return of the Islander
1970
Camelot
1967
Caprice
1967
Hawaii
1966
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
Major Dundee
1965
The Three Faces
1965
Red Desert
1964
This Sporting Life
1963
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
The Guns of Navarone
1961
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
A Terrible Beauty
1960
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
Alive and Kicking
1959
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959