Richard Harris

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

102

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

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

  • 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 Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

  • Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

    Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

  • The Hollywood Palace

    The Hollywood Palace

  • Mutiny on the Bounty

    Mutiny on the Bounty

  • Unforgiven

    Unforgiven

  • The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone

  • The Heroes of Telemark

    The Heroes of Telemark

  • King of the Wind

    King of the Wind

  • The Bible: In the Beginning...

    The Bible: In the Beginning...

  • Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

    Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

  • Red Desert

    Red Desert

  • Camelot

    Camelot

  • The Snow Goose

    The Snow Goose

  • Orca

    Orca

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • Echoes of a Summer

    Echoes of a Summer

  • Creating the World of Harry Potter

    Creating the World of Harry Potter

  • Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

  • The Great Kandinsky

    The Great Kandinsky

  • The Barber of Siberia

    The Barber of Siberia

  • A Man Called Horse

    A Man Called Horse

  • Major Dundee

    Major Dundee

  • Patriot Games

    Patriot Games

  • Tarzan the Ape Man

    Tarzan the Ape Man

  • Bette

    Bette

  • The Field

    The Field

  • The Deadly Trackers

    The Deadly Trackers

  • Man in the Wilderness

    Man in the Wilderness

  • Silent Tongue

    Silent Tongue

  • Game for Vultures

    Game for Vultures

  • Cromwell

    Cromwell

  • The Return of a Man Called Horse

    The Return of a Man Called Horse

  • The Apocalypse

    The Apocalypse

  • Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

    Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

  • Strike Commando 2

    Strike Commando 2

  • Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

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

    Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

  • The Long and the Short and the Tall

    The Long and the Short and the Tall

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • Caprice

    Caprice

  • Bloomfield

    Bloomfield

  • Cry, the Beloved Country

    Cry, the Beloved Country

  • Mack the Knife

    Mack the Knife

  • The Wild Geese

    The Wild Geese

  • Juggernaut

    Juggernaut

  • The Molly Maguires

    The Molly Maguires

  • Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

    Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

  • Smilla's Sense of Snow

    Smilla's Sense of Snow

  • The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

    The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

  • Hawaii

    Hawaii

  • Trojan Eddie

    Trojan Eddie

  • This Is the Sea

    This Is the Sea

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Weapons

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Weapons

  • Savage Hearts

    Savage Hearts

  • The Cassandra Crossing

    The Cassandra Crossing

  • Camelot

    Camelot

  • Highpoint

    Highpoint

  • Shake Hands with the Devil

    Shake Hands with the Devil

  • Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

    Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

  • 99 and 44/100% Dead

    99 and 44/100% Dead

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • Martin's Day

    Martin's Day

  • Hellraisers

    Hellraisers

  • The Hunchback

    The Hunchback

  • Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

    Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

  • The Wreck of the Mary Deare

    The Wreck of the Mary Deare

  • To Walk with Lions

    To Walk with Lions

  • The Pearl

    The Pearl

  • A Terrible Beauty

    A Terrible Beauty

  • Alive and Kicking

    Alive and Kicking

  • The Last Word

    The Last Word

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

    Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

  • Ravagers

    Ravagers

  • Flick Flack

    Flick Flack

  • Golden Rendezvous

    Golden Rendezvous

  • My Kingdom

    My Kingdom

  • Russell Harty

    Russell Harty

  • Robin and Marian

    Robin and Marian

  • The Apocalypse

    The Apocalypse

  • The Three Faces

    The Three Faces

  • Grizzly Falls

    Grizzly Falls

  • This Sporting Life

    This Sporting Life

  • Maigret

    Maigret

  • Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

    Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

  • Exterior Day

    Exterior Day

  • Strength and Honor: Production Pods

    Strength and Honor: Production Pods

  • Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

    Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

  • Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

    Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

  • The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

    The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

  • Return of the Islander

    Return of the Islander

  • Arthur: King of the Britons

    Arthur: King of the Britons