Richard Harris

Acting · 3.6 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: October 1, 1930 – October 25, 2002
From: Limerick City, Munster, Ireland

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.

Works

83 films

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

20017.9

Gladiator

20008.2

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

20027.7

The Count of Monte Cristo

20027.7

Unforgiven

19927.9

The Guns of Navarone

19617.3

Patriot Games

19926.7

The Field

19907.0

Tarzan the Ape Man

19814.1

The Cassandra Crossing

19766.3

The Wild Geese

19786.8

Mutiny on the Bounty

19627.1

Orca

19776.2

The Bible: In the Beginning...

19667.3

The Hunchback

19975.9

Juggernaut

19746.3

Major Dundee

19656.7

The Heroes of Telemark

19656.9

Robin and Marian

19766.3

Savage Hearts

19954.3

Red Desert

19647.3

Camelot

19676.2

Smilla's Sense of Snow

19976.3

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

19936.3

The Return of a Man Called Horse

19765.7

Mack the Knife

19896.6

Abraham

19937.1

The Barber of Siberia

19987.0

The Molly Maguires

19706.3

Cromwell

19706.6

A Man Called Horse

19706.4

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

19986.1

Hawaii

19666.3

Man in the Wilderness

19716.3

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

19596.3

This Sporting Life

19637.0

The Three Faces

19655.7

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

19815.0

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

20047.7

Camelot

19828.5

Highpoint

19845.1

The Apocalypse

20045.5

Martin's Day

19856.4

Exterior Day

2022

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

19835.8

The Long and the Short and the Tall

19616.9

Shake Hands with the Devil

19596.5

Grizzly Falls

19995.9

Cry, the Beloved Country

19956.8

My Kingdom

20015.5

Caprice

19675.9

The Deadly Trackers

19735.9

King of the Wind

19907.0

Ravagers

19794.5

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

19886.5

Maigret

19887.5

This Is the Sea

19976.0

To Walk with Lions

19995.8

Golden Rendezvous

19775.5

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

20057.5

Silent Tongue

19944.7

Echoes of a Summer

19765.4

Strength and Honor: Production Pods

2005

The Last Word

19795.0

99 and 44/100% Dead

19745.1

Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

19735.7

Gulliver's Travels

19775.6

Trojan Eddie

19965.3

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

20027.4

The Great Kandinsky

19957.5

A Terrible Beauty

19605.4

Game for Vultures

19795.2

Arthur: King of the Britons

20028.0

Strike Commando 2

19884.7

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

20018.0

The Snow Goose

19717.3

Bloomfield

19706.1

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

2003

The Pearl

20014.8

Hellraisers

2000

Alive and Kicking

19597.1

Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

1978

Return of the Islander

19705.3