
Richard Harris
Known for Acting · 100 credits
- Born
- 1930-10-01
- Died
- 2002-10-25
- Place of birth
- Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
- Also known as
- Richard St. John 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
1962
as Self / Self (archive footage)

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Albus Dumbledore

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Albus Dumbledore

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
TV Shows (17)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self / Self (archive footage)

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Dinah!
1974
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self

Cinépanorama
1956
as Self

The Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self - Singer

Bette
2000

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Philip Rhayadar
Russell Harty
1980

Julius Caesar
2002
as Lucius Silla

Flick Flack
1974

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
as Self

Abraham
1994
as Abraham
Movies (83)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Albus Dumbledore

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Albus Dumbledore

Gladiator
2000
as Marcus Aurelius

Unforgiven
1992
as English Bob

The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
as Abbé Faria

The Guns of Navarone
1961
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF

Patriot Games
1992
as Paddy O'Neil

The Cassandra Crossing
1976
as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain

The Hunchback
1997
as Dom Frollo

Orca
1977
as Captain Nolan

Camelot
1967
as King Arthur

The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
as Cain

Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
as Seaman John Mills

Juggernaut
1974
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon

The Field
1990
as 'Bull' McCabe

The Wild Geese
1978
as Capt. Rafer Janders

The Barber of Siberia
1998
as Douglas McCraken

Red Desert
1964
as Corrado Zeller

Caprice
1967
as Christopher White

Tarzan the Ape Man
1981
as James Porter

A Man Called Horse
1970
as John Morgan

Cromwell
1970
as Oliver Cromwell

Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
as Dr. Andreas Tork

Man in the Wilderness
1971
as Zachary Bass

Hellraisers
2000
as Self

The Heroes of Telemark
1965
as Knut Straud

Hawaii
1966
as Rafer Hoxworth

Major Dundee
1965
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
as Self

Ravagers
1979
as Falk

The Apocalypse
2004
as John

Robin and Marian
1976
as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard

Abraham
1993
as Abraham

Golden Rendezvous
1977
as John Carter

Highpoint
1982
as Lewis Kinney

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998
as Self (archive footage)

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
as Frank

The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
as Higgins

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988
as Self

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
as Self

Cry, the Beloved Country
1995
as James Jarvis

The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
as John Morgan / Horse

The Molly Maguires
1970
as James McKenna

Camelot
1982
as King Arthur

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
1983
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse

99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
as Harry Crown

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
as Self

My Kingdom
2001
as Sandeman

Gulliver's Travels
1977
as Gulliver

The Deadly Trackers
1973
as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick

Maigret
1988
as Jules Maigret

This Is the Sea
1997
as Old Man Jacobs

Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
as Terence O'Brien

Mack the Knife
1989
as Mr. Peachum

The Three Faces
1965
as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")

This Sporting Life
1963
as Frank Machin

The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
as Cpl. Johnstone

King of the Wind
1990
as King George II

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981
as Jason

Echoes of a Summer
1976
as Eugene

The Last Word
1979
as Danny Travis

To Walk with Lions
1999
as George Adamson

Silent Tongue
1994
as Prescott Roe

Strike Commando 2
1988
as Major Vic Jenkins

A Terrible Beauty
1960
as Sean Reilly

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001
as Self

Grizzly Falls
1999
as Old Harry

Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
as Self

Trojan Eddie
1996
as John Power

The Pearl
2001
as Dr. Karl

Bloomfield
1970
as Eitan

Savage Hearts
1995
as Sir Roger Foxley
The Great Kandinsky
1995
as Ernest Kandinsky

Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978
as Self

Alive and Kicking
1959
as Lover

Game for Vultures
1979
as David Swansey

Martin's Day
1985
as Martin Steckert

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003

The Snow Goose
1971
as Philip Rhayadar

Arthur: King of the Britons
2002
as Presenter

Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1973
as Self
Return of the Islander
1970
as Narrator (voice)

Exterior Day
2022
About 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… With 100 credits spanning from 1948 to 2022, Richard Harris has appeared in 83 films and 17 TV shows.
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Most Popular Richard Harris Movies
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) — as Albus Dumbledore
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) — as Albus Dumbledore
- Gladiator (2000) — as Marcus Aurelius
- Unforgiven (1992) — as English Bob
- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) — as Abbé Faria
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