Richard Harris
Born October 01, 1930 (Age: 95)
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Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
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.
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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Filmography
Exterior Day
2022
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as
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Age: 91
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
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as Self
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Age: 74
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
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as Self
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Age: 74
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
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as Self
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Age: 73
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
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as Albus Dumbledore
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Age: 72
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
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as Self
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Age: 71
Arthur: King of the Britons
2002
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as Presenter
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Age: 71
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
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as Abbé Faria
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Age: 71
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
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as Albus Dumbledore
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Age: 71
Hellraisers
2000
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as Self
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Age: 69
Gladiator
2000
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as Marcus Aurelius
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Age: 69
The Barber of Siberia
1998
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as Douglas McCraken
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Age: 68
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 67
This Is the Sea
1997
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as Old Man Jacobs
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Age: 66
The Hunchback
1997
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as Dom Frollo
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Age: 66
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
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as Dr. Andreas Tork
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Age: 66
Trojan Eddie
1996
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as John Power
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Age: 65
Cry, the Beloved Country
1995
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as James Jarvis
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Age: 65
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
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as Frank
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Age: 63
Abraham
1993
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as Abraham
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Age: 63
Silent Tongue
1993
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as Prescott Roe
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Age: 62
Unforgiven
1992
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as English Bob
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Age: 61
Patriot Games
1992
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as Paddy O'Neil
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Age: 61
The Field
1990
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as 'Bull' McCabe
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Age: 59
King of the Wind
1990
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as King George II
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Age: 59
Mack the Knife
1989
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as Mr. Peachum
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Age: 59
Strike Commando 2
1988
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as Major Vic Jenkins
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Age: 57
Maigret
1988
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as Jules Maigret
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Age: 57
Martin's Day
1985
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as Martin Steckert
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Age: 54
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981
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as Jason
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Age: 50
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981
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as James Porter
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Age: 50
The Wild Geese
1978
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as Capt. Rafer Janders
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Age: 47
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978
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as Self
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Age: 47
Orca
1977
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as Captain Nolan
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Age: 46
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
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as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
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Age: 46
Echoes of a Summer
1976
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as Eugene
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Age: 45
Juggernaut
1974
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as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
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Age: 43
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
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as Harry Crown
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Age: 43
The Deadly Trackers
1973
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as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
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Age: 43
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1973
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as Self
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Age: 42
The Molly Maguires
1970
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as James McKenna
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Age: 39
Hawaii
1966
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as Rafer Hoxworth
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Age: 36
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
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as Cain
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Age: 35
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
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as Knut Straud
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Age: 35
Major Dundee
1965
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as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
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Age: 34
The Three Faces
1965
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as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
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Age: 34
Red Desert
1964
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as Corrado Zeller
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Age: 33
This Sporting Life
1963
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as Frank Machin
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Age: 32
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
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as Seaman John Mills
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Age: 32
The Guns of Navarone
1961
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as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
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Age: 30
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
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as Cpl. Johnstone
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Age: 30
A Terrible Beauty
1960
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as Sean Reilly
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Age: 29
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
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as Higgins
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Age: 29
Alive and Kicking
1959
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as Lover
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Age: 28
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
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as Terence O'Brien
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Age: 28