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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Limerick City, Munster, Ireland, 1930-10-01

Died: 2002-10-25

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	Shake Hands with the Devil	Terence O'Brien	65
2	1959	Alive and Kicking	Lover	69
3	1959	The Wreck of the Mary Deare	Higgins	62
4	1960	A Terrible Beauty	Sean Reilly	49
5	1961	The Long and the Short and the Tall	Cpl. Johnstone	71
6	1961	The Guns of Navarone	Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF	73
7	1962	Mutiny on the Bounty	Seaman John Mills	70
8	1963	This Sporting Life	Frank Machin	70
9	1964	Red Desert	Corrado Zeller	74
10	1965	The Three Faces	Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")	56
11	1965	Major Dundee	Captain Benjamin Tyreen	67
12	1965	The Heroes of Telemark	Knut Straud	69
13	1966	The Bible: In the Beginning...	Cain	73
14	1966	Hawaii	Rafer Hoxworth	64
15	1967	Caprice	Christopher White	59
16	1967	Camelot	King Arthur	62
17	1970	Return of the Islander	Narrator (voice)	53
18	1970	The Molly Maguires	James McKenna	63
19	1970	A Man Called Horse	John Morgan	64
20	1970	Cromwell	Oliver Cromwell	66
21	1970	Bloomfield	Eitan	51
22	1971	The Snow Goose	Philip Rhayadar	73
23	1971	Man in the Wilderness	Zachary Bass	62
24	1973	The Deadly Trackers	Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick	56
25	1974	99 and 44/100% Dead	Harry Crown	46
26	1974	Juggernaut	Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon	61
27	1976	Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La	Self	40
28	1976	Echoes of a Summer	Eugene	56
29	1976	Robin and Marian	Richard the Lionheart / King Richard	63
30	1976	The Return of a Man Called Horse	John Morgan / Horse	56
31	1976	The Cassandra Crossing	Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain	63
32	1977	Gulliver's Travels	Gulliver	56
33	1977	Orca	Captain Nolan	61
34	1977	Golden Rendezvous	John Carter	49
35	1978	Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese	Self	0
36	1978	The Wild Geese	Capt. Rafer Janders	68
37	1979	Game for Vultures	David Swansey	44
38	1979	Ravagers	Falk	43
39	1979	The Last Word	Danny Travis	40
40	1981	Tarzan the Ape Man	James Porter	41
41	1981	Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid	Jason	50
42	1982	Highpoint	Lewis Kinney	48
43	1982	Camelot	King Arthur	80
44	1983	Triumphs of a Man Called Horse	John Morgan - Man Called Horse	58
45	1985	Martin's Day	Martin Steckert	62
46	1988	Maigret	Jules Maigret	0
47	1988	Strike Commando 2	Major Vic Jenkins	50
48	1989	Mack the Knife	Mr. Peachum	66
49	1990	King of the Wind	King George II	64
50	1990	The Field	'Bull' McCabe	70
51	1992	Patriot Games	Paddy O'Neil	67
52	1992	Unforgiven	English Bob	79
53	1993	Silent Tongue	Prescott Roe	48
54	1993	Abraham	Abraham	70
55	1993	Wrestling Ernest Hemingway	Frank	63
56	1995	Savage Hearts	Sir Roger Foxley	40
57	1995	The Great Kandinsky	Ernest Kandinsky	60
58	1995	Cry, the Beloved Country	James Jarvis	67
59	1996	Trojan Eddie	John Power	53
60	1997	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Dr. Andreas Tork	63
61	1997	The Hunchback	Dom Frollo	59
62	1997	This Is the Sea	Old Man Jacobs	57
63	1998	Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!	Self (archive footage)	58
64	1998	The Barber of Siberia	Douglas McCraken	71
65	1999	To Walk with Lions	George Adamson	61
66	1999	Grizzly Falls	Old Harry	59
67	2000	Gladiator	Marcus Aurelius	82
68	2000	Hellraisers	Self	0
69	2001	The Pearl	Dr. Karl	44
70	2001	My Kingdom	Sandeman	51
71	2001	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Albus Dumbledore	79
72	2001	Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World	Self	73
73	2002	The Count of Monte Cristo	Abbé Faria	77
74	2002	Arthur: King of the Britons	Presenter	0
75	2002	Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'	Self	72
76	2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Albus Dumbledore	77
77	2002	Julius Caesar	Lucius Cornelius Sulla	66
78	2003	Kaena: The Prophecy	Opaz (english voice)	59
79	2003	The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway		0
80	2004	The Magic Touch of Harry Potter	Self	74
81	2004	The Apocalypse	John	53
82	2005	Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'	Self	71
83	2022	Exterior Day		0
84	2022	The Ghost of Richard Harris	Self (archive footage)	75

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	66
2	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Philip Rhayadar	87
3	1953	The Oscars	Self	70
4	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
5	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self - Co-Host	51
6	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
7	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
8	1964	The Hollywood Palace	Self - Singer	45
9	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
10	1974	Flick Flack		0
11	1974	Dinah!	Self	65
12	1980	Russell Harty		0
13	1993	Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties	Self	0
14	1994	Abraham	Abraham	80
15	2000	Bette		79
16	2001	Friday Night with Jonathan Ross	Self	58
17	2003	Julius Caesar	Lucius Cornelius Silla	60
18	2012	Honest Trailers	Albus Dumbledore (archive footage)	64