Richard Harris

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

100

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-10-01

Day of death

2002-10-25 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Limerick City, Munster, Ireland

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.

Known For

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • Gladiator

    Gladiator

  • The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

  • Dinah!

    Dinah!

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

  • Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

  • Unforgiven

    Unforgiven

  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

    Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

  • The Pearl

    The Pearl

  • The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

    The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • Patriot Games

    Patriot Games

  • Bloomfield

    Bloomfield

  • My Kingdom

    My Kingdom

  • The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone

  • Camelot

    Camelot

  • Ravagers

    Ravagers

  • Orca

    Orca

  • Strike Commando 2

    Strike Commando 2

  • Camelot

    Camelot

  • Caprice

    Caprice

  • The Field

    The Field

  • Major Dundee

    Major Dundee

  • The Hollywood Palace

    The Hollywood Palace

  • Highpoint

    Highpoint

  • Savage Hearts

    Savage Hearts

  • Cromwell

    Cromwell

  • Mutiny on the Bounty

    Mutiny on the Bounty

  • Tarzan the Ape Man

    Tarzan the Ape Man

  • Golden Rendezvous

    Golden Rendezvous

  • Hawaii

    Hawaii

  • Man in the Wilderness

    Man in the Wilderness

  • Juggernaut

    Juggernaut

  • The Bible: In the Beginning...

    The Bible: In the Beginning...

  • Hellraisers

    Hellraisers

  • The Hunchback

    The Hunchback

  • A Man Called Horse

    A Man Called Horse

  • Red Desert

    Red Desert

  • Smilla's Sense of Snow

    Smilla's Sense of Snow

  • The Apocalypse

    The Apocalypse

  • The Wild Geese

    The Wild Geese

  • Grizzly Falls

    Grizzly Falls

  • Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

    Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

  • Silent Tongue

    Silent Tongue

  • The Cassandra Crossing

    The Cassandra Crossing

  • Robin and Marian

    Robin and Marian

  • The Return of a Man Called Horse

    The Return of a Man Called Horse

  • The Heroes of Telemark

    The Heroes of Telemark

  • Bette

    Bette

  • The Wreck of the Mary Deare

    The Wreck of the Mary Deare

  • The Molly Maguires

    The Molly Maguires

  • Maigret

    Maigret

  • Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

  • Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

    Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

  • Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

    Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

  • Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

    Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

  • A Terrible Beauty

    A Terrible Beauty

  • Game for Vultures

    Game for Vultures

  • The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

    The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

  • The Three Faces

    The Three Faces

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • Echoes of a Summer

    Echoes of a Summer

  • The Barber of Siberia

    The Barber of Siberia

  • The Snow Goose

    The Snow Goose

  • Shake Hands with the Devil

    Shake Hands with the Devil

  • The Deadly Trackers

    The Deadly Trackers

  • King of the Wind

    King of the Wind

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

    Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

  • Russell Harty

    Russell Harty

  • 99 and 44/100% Dead

    99 and 44/100% Dead

  • This Is the Sea

    This Is the Sea

  • Flick Flack

    Flick Flack

  • Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

    Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

  • Mack the Knife

    Mack the Knife

  • To Walk with Lions

    To Walk with Lions

  • The Great Kandinsky

    The Great Kandinsky

  • Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

    Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

  • Cry, the Beloved Country

    Cry, the Beloved Country

  • Alive and Kicking

    Alive and Kicking

  • The Last Word

    The Last Word

  • Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

  • Martin's Day

    Martin's Day

  • The Long and the Short and the Tall

    The Long and the Short and the Tall

  • This Sporting Life

    This Sporting Life

  • Trojan Eddie

    Trojan Eddie

  • Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

    Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

  • Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

    Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

  • Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

    Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

  • The Apocalypse

    The Apocalypse

  • Strength and Honor: Production Pods

    Strength and Honor: Production Pods

  • Return of the Islander

    Return of the Islander

  • Exterior Day

    Exterior Day

  • Arthur: King of the Britons

    Arthur: King of the Britons