Richard Harris

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.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Gladiator

The Dick Cavett Show

All Movies (83)

• Exterior Day2022
• Strength and Honor: Production Pods2005 · as Self
• Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'2005 · as Self
• The Apocalypse2004 · as John
• The Magic Touch of Harry Potter2004 · as Self
• The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway2003
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets2002 · as Albus Dumbledore
• Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'2002 · as Self
• Arthur: King of the Britons2002 · as Presenter
• The Count of Monte Cristo2002 · as Abbé Faria
• Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World2001 · as Self
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone2001 · as Albus Dumbledore
• My Kingdom2001 · as Sandeman
• The Pearl2001 · as Dr. Karl
• Hellraisers2000 · as Self
• Gladiator2000 · as Marcus Aurelius
• Grizzly Falls1999 · as Old Harry
• To Walk with Lions1999 · as George Adamson
• The Barber of Siberia1998 · as Douglas McCraken
• Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!1998 · as Self (archive footage)
• This Is the Sea1997 · as Old Man Jacobs
• The Hunchback1997 · as Dom Frollo
• Smilla's Sense of Snow1997 · as Dr. Andreas Tork
• Trojan Eddie1996 · as John Power
• Cry, the Beloved Country1995 · as James Jarvis
• The Great Kandinsky1995 · as Ernest Kandinsky
• Savage Hearts1995 · as Sir Roger Foxley
• Silent Tongue1994 · as Prescott Roe
• Wrestling Ernest Hemingway1993 · as Frank
• Abraham1993 · as Abraham
• Unforgiven1992 · as English Bob
• Patriot Games1992 · as Paddy O'Neil
• The Field1990 · as 'Bull' McCabe
• King of the Wind1990 · as King George II
• Mack the Knife1989 · as Mr. Peachum
• Strike Commando 21988 · as Major Vic Jenkins
• Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute1988 · as Self
• Maigret1988 · as Jules Maigret
• Martin's Day1985 · as Martin Steckert
• Triumphs of a Man Called Horse1983 · as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
• Camelot1982 · as King Arthur
• Highpoint1982 · as Lewis Kinney
• Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid1981 · as Jason
• Tarzan the Ape Man1981 · as James Porter
• The Last Word1979 · as Danny Travis
• Ravagers1979 · as Falk
• Game for Vultures1979 · as David Swansey
• The Wild Geese1978 · as Capt. Rafer Janders
• Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese1978 · as Self
• Golden Rendezvous1977 · as John Carter
• Orca1977 · as Captain Nolan
• Gulliver's Travels1977 · as Gulliver
• The Cassandra Crossing1976 · as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
• The Return of a Man Called Horse1976 · as John Morgan / Horse
• Robin and Marian1976 · as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
• Echoes of a Summer1976 · as Eugene
• Juggernaut1974 · as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
• 99 and 44/100% Dead1974 · as Harry Crown
• The Deadly Trackers1973 · as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
• Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La1973 · as Self
• Man in the Wilderness1971 · as Zachary Bass
• The Snow Goose1971 · as Philip Rhayadar
• Bloomfield1970 · as Eitan
• Cromwell1970 · as Oliver Cromwell
• A Man Called Horse1970 · as John Morgan
• The Molly Maguires1970 · as James McKenna
• Return of the Islander1970 · as Narrator (voice)
• Camelot1967 · as King Arthur
• Caprice1967 · as Christopher White
• Hawaii1966 · as Rafer Hoxworth
• The Bible: In the Beginning...1966 · as Cain
• The Heroes of Telemark1965 · as Knut Straud
• Major Dundee1965 · as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
• The Three Faces1965 · as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
• Red Desert1964 · as Corrado Zeller
• This Sporting Life1963 · as Frank Machin
• Mutiny on the Bounty1962 · as Seaman John Mills
• The Guns of Navarone1961 · as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
• The Long and the Short and the Tall1961 · as Cpl. Johnstone
• A Terrible Beauty1960 · as Sean Reilly
• The Wreck of the Mary Deare1959 · as Higgins
• Alive and Kicking1959 · as Lover
• Shake Hands with the Devil1959 · as Terence O'Brien

All TV Shows (19)

• Julius Caesar2002 · as Lucius Silla
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross2001 · as Self
• Bette2000
• Abraham1994 · as Abraham
• Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties1993 · as Self
• Russell Harty1980
• Dinah!1974 · as Self
• Flick Flack1974
• Film '721971 · as Self
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• The Hollywood Palace1964 · as Self - Singer
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self - Co-Host
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• Cinépanorama1956 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Philip Rhayadar
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self