Richard Harris
Acting
Born: Oct 01, 1930 — Died: Oct 25, 2002
From: Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Albus Dumbledore | 2002 | 7.702 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Abbé Faria | 2002 | 7.669 |
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Albus Dumbledore | 2001 | 7.898 |
| Gladiator | Marcus Aurelius | 2000 | 8.225 |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | James Jarvis | 1995 | 6.768 |
| Abraham | Abraham | 1993 | 7.04 |
| Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | Frank | 1993 | 6.309 |
| Unforgiven | English Bob | 1992 | 7.907 |
| Patriot Games | Paddy O'Neil | 1992 | 6.68 |
| The Field | 'Bull' McCabe | 1990 | 6.981 |
| Tarzan the Ape Man | James Porter | 1981 | 4.093 |
| The Wild Geese | Capt. Rafer Janders | 1978 | 6.83 |
| Orca | Captain Nolan | 1977 | 6.191 |
| Gulliver's Travels | Gulliver | 1977 | 5.63 |
| Robin and Marian | Richard the Lionheart / King … | 1976 | 6.298 |
| The Cassandra Crossing | Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain | 1976 | 6.241 |
| The Return of a Man Called Horse | John Morgan / Horse | 1976 | 5.733 |
| Juggernaut | Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon | 1974 | 6.232 |
| Bloomfield | Eitan | 1970 | 6.111 |
| Cromwell | Oliver Cromwell | 1970 | 6.582 |
| The Molly Maguires | James McKenna | 1970 | 6.317 |
| A Man Called Horse | John Morgan | 1970 | 6.441 |
| Caprice | Christopher White | 1967 | 5.875 |
| The Bible: In the Beginning... | Cain | 1966 | 7.265 |
| Hawaii | Rafer Hoxworth | 1966 | 6.317 |
| Major Dundee | Captain Benjamin Tyreen | 1965 | 6.68 |
| The Heroes of Telemark | Knut Straud | 1965 | 6.9 |
| Red Desert | Corrado Zeller | 1964 | 7.326 |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Seaman John Mills | 1962 | 7.051 |
| The Guns of Navarone | Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF | 1961 | 7.3 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1930 |
| From | Limerick City, Munster, … |