Richard Harris

Richard Harris

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.

The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
Self (archive footage)
Exterior Day
2022
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
Self
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
Self
The Apocalypse
2004
John
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
Self
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Albus Dumbledore
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
Abbé Faria
Arthur: King of the Britons
2002
Presenter
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
Self
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Albus Dumbledore
My Kingdom
2001
Sandeman
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001
Self
The Pearl
2001
Dr. Karl
Gladiator
2000
Marcus Aurelius
Hellraisers
2000
Self
Grizzly Falls
1999
Old Harry
To Walk with Lions
1999
George Adamson
The Barber of Siberia
1998
Douglas McCraken
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998
Self (archive footage)
This Is the Sea
1997
Old Man Jacobs
The Hunchback
1997
Dom Frollo
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
Dr. Andreas Tork
Trojan Eddie
1996
John Power
Cry, the Beloved Country
1995
James Jarvis
Savage Hearts
1995
Sir Roger Foxley
Abraham
1993
Abraham
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
Frank
Silent Tongue
1993
Prescott Roe
Unforgiven
1992
English Bob
Patriot Games
1992
Paddy O'Neil
The Field
1990
'Bull' McCabe
King of the Wind
1990
King George II
Mack the Knife
1989
Mr. Peachum
Strike Commando 2
1988
Major Vic Jenkins
Maigret
1988
Jules Maigret
Martin's Day
1985
Martin Steckert
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
1983
John Morgan - Man Called Horse
Highpoint
1982
Lewis Kinney
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981
James Porter
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981
Jason
Game for Vultures
1979
David Swansey
Ravagers
1979
Falk
The Last Word
1979
Danny Travis
The Wild Geese
1978
Capt. Rafer Janders
Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978
Self
Orca
1977
Captain Nolan
Gulliver's Travels
1977
Gulliver
Golden Rendezvous
1977
John Carter
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
Executive Producer
Robin and Marian
1976
Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
Echoes of a Summer
1976
Eugene
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1976
Self
Juggernaut
1974
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
Harry Crown
The Deadly Trackers
1973
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
Man in the Wilderness
1971
Zachary Bass
The Snow Goose
1971
Philip Rhayadar
Bloomfield
1970
Director
Cromwell
1970
Oliver Cromwell
The Molly Maguires
1970
James McKenna
A Man Called Horse
1970
John Morgan
Caprice
1967
Christopher White
Camelot
1967
King Arthur
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
Cain
Hawaii
1966
Rafer Hoxworth
Major Dundee
1965
Captain Benjamin Tyreen
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
Knut Straud
The Three Faces
1965
Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
Red Desert
1964
Corrado Zeller
This Sporting Life
1963
Frank Machin
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
Seaman John Mills
The Guns of Navarone
1961
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
Cpl. Johnstone
A Terrible Beauty
1960
Sean Reilly
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
Higgins
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
Terence O'Brien
Alive and Kicking
1959
Lover