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.
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Movies (83)
Exterior Day
2022
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005 · Self
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005 · Self
The Apocalypse
2004 · John
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004 · Self - Professor Dumbledore
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · Albus Dumbledore
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002 · Self
Arthur: King of the Britons
2002 · Presenter
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002 · Abbé Faria
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001 · Self
Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal
2001 · Albus Dumbledore
My Kingdom
2001 · Sandeman
The Pearl
2001 · Dr. Karl
Hellraisers
2000 · Self
Gladiador
2000 · Marcus Aurelius
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
The Great Kandinsky
1995 · Ernest Kandinsky
Savage Hearts
1995 · Sir Roger Foxley
Silent Tongue
1994 · Prescott Roe
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993 · Frank
Abraham
1993 · Abraham
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
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988 · Self
Maigret
1988 · Jules Maigret
Martin's Day
1985 · Martin Steckert
Highpoint
1984 · Lewis Kinney
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
1983 · John Morgan - Man Called Horse
Camelot
1982 · King Arthur
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981 · Jason
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981 · James Porter
The Last Word
1979 · Danny Travis
Ravagers
1979 · Falk
Game for Vultures
1979 · David Swansey
The Wild Geese
1978 · Capt. Rafer Janders
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978 · Self
Golden Rendezvous
1977 · John Carter
Orca
1977 · Captain Nolan
Gulliver's Travels
1977 · Gulliver
The Cassandra Crossing
1976 · Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976 · John Morgan / Horse, Executive Producer
Robin and Marian
1976 · Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
Echoes of a Summer
1976 · Eugene
Juggernaut
1974 · Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974 · Harry Crown
The Deadly Trackers
1973 · Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1973 · Self
Man in the Wilderness
1971 · Zachary Bass
The Snow Goose
1971 · Philip Rhayadar
Bloomfield
1970 · Eitan, Director, Screenplay
Cromwell
1970 · Oliver Cromwell
A Man Called Horse
1970 · John Morgan
The Molly Maguires
1970 · James McKenna
Return of the Islander
1970 · Narrator (voice)
Camelot
1967 · King Arthur
Caprice
1967 · Christopher White
Hawaii
1966 · Rafer Hoxworth
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966 · Cain
The Heroes of Telemark
1965 · Knut Straud
Major Dundee
1965 · Captain Benjamin Tyreen
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
Alive and Kicking
1959 · Lover
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959 · Terence O'Brien
TV shows (17)
Julius Caesar
2002 · Lucius Silla
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001 · Self
Bette
2000
Abraham
1993 · Abraham
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993 · Self
Russell Harty
1980
Dinah!
1974 · Self
Flick Flack
1974
Film '72
1971 · Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
The Hollywood Palace
1964 · Self - Singer
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self - Co-Host, Self
Cinépanorama
1956 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Philip Rhayadar
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self