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 Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • 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 Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • Gladiator

    Gladiator

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

  • Juggernaut

    Juggernaut

  • Strike Commando 2

    Strike Commando 2

  • Dinah!

    Dinah!

  • Red Desert

    Red Desert

  • Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

  • Unforgiven

    Unforgiven

  • Bloomfield

    Bloomfield

  • King of the Wind

    King of the Wind

  • The Hunchback

    The Hunchback

  • Camelot

    Camelot

  • Highpoint

    Highpoint

  • Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

    Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

  • The Wild Geese

    The Wild Geese

  • Camelot

    Camelot

  • The Pearl

    The Pearl

  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

    Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

  • Mack the Knife

    Mack the Knife

  • Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

    Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

  • Martin's Day

    Martin's Day

  • This Is the Sea

    This Is the Sea

  • Patriot Games

    Patriot Games

  • Hellraisers

    Hellraisers

  • The Molly Maguires

    The Molly Maguires

  • Hawaii

    Hawaii

  • Maigret

    Maigret

  • The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • The Three Faces

    The Three Faces

  • The Hollywood Palace

    The Hollywood Palace

  • Ravagers

    Ravagers

  • Caprice

    Caprice

  • Game for Vultures

    Game for Vultures

  • Orca

    Orca

  • The Bible: In the Beginning...

    The Bible: In the Beginning...

  • Robin and Marian

    Robin and Marian

  • Mutiny on the Bounty

    Mutiny on the Bounty

  • Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

  • Bette

    Bette

  • The Cassandra Crossing

    The Cassandra Crossing

  • The Barber of Siberia

    The Barber of Siberia

  • The Apocalypse

    The Apocalypse

  • Smilla's Sense of Snow

    Smilla's Sense of Snow

  • Tarzan the Ape Man

    Tarzan the Ape Man

  • The Field

    The Field

  • This Sporting Life

    This Sporting Life

  • Major Dundee

    Major Dundee

  • Russell Harty

    Russell Harty

  • Flick Flack

    Flick Flack

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • Cromwell

    Cromwell

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

    Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

  • Cry, the Beloved Country

    Cry, the Beloved Country

  • The Heroes of Telemark

    The Heroes of Telemark

  • The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

    The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

  • A Man Called Horse

    A Man Called Horse

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • Man in the Wilderness

    Man in the Wilderness

  • To Walk with Lions

    To Walk with Lions

  • The Return of a Man Called Horse

    The Return of a Man Called Horse

  • Shake Hands with the Devil

    Shake Hands with the Devil

  • Golden Rendezvous

    Golden Rendezvous

  • The Wreck of the Mary Deare

    The Wreck of the Mary Deare

  • Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

    Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

  • Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

    Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

  • Silent Tongue

    Silent Tongue

  • Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

    Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

  • The Great Kandinsky

    The Great Kandinsky

  • Strength and Honor: Production Pods

    Strength and Honor: Production Pods

  • 99 and 44/100% Dead

    99 and 44/100% Dead

  • The Deadly Trackers

    The Deadly Trackers

  • The Apocalypse

    The Apocalypse

  • Exterior Day

    Exterior Day

  • My Kingdom

    My Kingdom

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

    Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

  • Echoes of a Summer

    Echoes of a Summer

  • The Last Word

    The Last Word

  • The Long and the Short and the Tall

    The Long and the Short and the Tall

  • Grizzly Falls

    Grizzly Falls

  • A Terrible Beauty

    A Terrible Beauty

  • Savage Hearts

    Savage Hearts

  • The Snow Goose

    The Snow Goose

  • Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

    Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

  • Trojan Eddie

    Trojan Eddie

  • Alive and Kicking

    Alive and Kicking

  • Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

  • 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

  • Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

    Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

  • Arthur: King of the Britons

    Arthur: King of the Britons

  • Return of the Islander

    Return of the Islander