Richard Harris
Acting
🎂 1930-10-01
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.
Cast credits(102)
Self
1962
Self
1948
Self - Co-Host
1961
Self
1961
Self
1956
Self - Guest
1968
Self
2001
Self - Singer
1964
Albus Dumbledore
2001
Self
1953
Albus Dumbledore
2002
Philip Rhayadar
1951
Albus Dumbledore (archive footage)
2012
1974
Marcus Aurelius
2000
2000
1980
Self
1974
English Bob
1992
Abbé Faria
2002
Self
1993
Self - 'Professor Albus Dumbledore' (archive footage)
2009
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
1961
Paddy O'Neil
1992
Jason
1981
Captain Nolan
1977
John Morgan
1970
Cain
1966
John
2004
Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
1976
Lucius Silla
2003
Capt. Rafer Janders
1978
Seaman John Mills
1962
Douglas McCraken
1998
James Porter
1981
Knut Straud
1965
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
1974
King Arthur
1967
Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
1976
Rafer Hoxworth
1966
Self
2004
Abraham
1993
Dr. Andreas Tork
1997
Captain Benjamin Tyreen
1965
Abraham
1994
Corrado Zeller
1964
Frank
1993
Zachary Bass
1971
Higgins
1959
John Morgan / Horse
1976
Dom Frollo
1997
Oliver Cromwell
1970
Sandeman
2001
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
1973
Frank Machin
1963
George Adamson
1999
Lover
1959
'Bull' McCabe
1990
John Carter
1977
James McKenna
1970
Terence O'Brien
1959
Falk
1979
Gulliver
1977
John Morgan - Man Called Horse
1983
Mr. Peachum
1989
Dr. Karl
2001
Self
2001
Self (archive footage)
2022
Cpl. Johnstone
1961
Prescott Roe
1993
Sean Reilly
1960
Martin Steckert
1985
James Jarvis
1995
Self
2005
Harry Crown
1974
Old Man Jacobs
1997
Christopher White
1967
Major Vic Jenkins
1988
Self (archive footage)
1998
Sir Roger Foxley
1995
Lewis Kinney
1982
Eitan
1970
Danny Travis
1979
Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
1965
Self
2002
Old Harry
1999
Eugene
1976
Jules Maigret
1988
Self
2005
David Swansey
1979
Philip Rhayadar
1971
Self
1978
King George II
1990
King Arthur
1982
Self
2000
John Power
1996
Presenter
2002
Ernest Kandinsky
1995
2003
2022
Self
1976
Narrator (voice)
1970