
Richard Harris
Born October 1, 1930 · Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
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.
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The Heroes of Telemark

Mutiny on the Bounty

Juggernaut

The Hunchback

Tarzan the Ape Man

Smilla's Sense of Snow

The Barber of Siberia

A Man Called Horse

The Molly Maguires

The Return of a Man Called Horse

Red Desert

Man in the Wilderness

Camelot

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

The Apocalypse

Cry, the Beloved Country

Cromwell

The Long and the Short and the Tall

Abraham

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

99 and 44/100% Dead

The Deadly Trackers

Shake Hands with the Devil

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

Hawaii

King of the Wind

Grizzly Falls

This Is the Sea

The Field

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

Echoes of a Summer

This Sporting Life

To Walk with Lions

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

Savage Hearts

Silent Tongue

Highpoint

Strength and Honor: Production Pods

Camelot

The Three Faces

Game for Vultures

Mack the Knife

The Snow Goose

Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

Maigret

Golden Rendezvous

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

The Last Word

Caprice

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

Martin's Day

Strike Commando 2

The Pearl

My Kingdom

A Terrible Beauty

Ravagers

Gulliver's Travels

Alive and Kicking

Exterior Day

Hellraisers

Bloomfield

Arthur: King of the Britons




























