Richard Harris
Known For
Acting
Born
1930-10-01 in Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Died
2002-10-25
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.
Most Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Albus Dumbledore
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Albus Dumbledore
Gladiator
as Marcus Aurelius
The Oscars
as Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Cinépanorama
as Self
Dinah!
as Self
Unforgiven
as English Bob
Juggernaut
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Abbé Faria
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
Highpoint
as Lewis Kinney
The Hollywood Palace
as Self - Singer
Patriot Games
as Paddy O'Neil
The Hunchback
as Dom Frollo
The Guns of Navarone
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF