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 …

Movies & TV Shows

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) — Albus Dumbledore
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) — Albus Dumbledore
3. Gladiator (2000) — Marcus Aurelius
4. Unforgiven (1992) — English Bob
5. الكونت دي مونت كريستو (2002) — Abbé Faria
6. Patriot Games (1992) — Paddy O'Neil
7. The Guns of Navarone (1961) — Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
8. Red Desert (1964) — Corrado Zeller
9. Orca (1977) — Captain Nolan
10. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) — Seaman John Mills
11. The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) — Cain
12. The Wild Geese (1978) — Capt. Rafer Janders
13. Robin and Marian (1976) — Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
14. Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) — Dr. Andreas Tork
15. A Man Called Horse (1970) — John Morgan
16. The Cassandra Crossing (1976) — Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
17. The Heroes of Telemark (1965) — Knut Straud
18. Major Dundee (1965) — Captain Benjamin Tyreen
19. The Barber of Siberia (1998) — Douglas McCraken
20. Juggernaut (1974) — Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
21. This Sporting Life (1963) — Frank Machin
22. Tarzan the Ape Man (1981) — James Porter
23. The Field (1990) — 'Bull' McCabe
24. Cromwell (1970) — Oliver Cromwell
25. Man in the Wilderness (1971) — Zachary Bass
26. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
27. The Molly Maguires (1970) — James McKenna
28. The Oscars (1953) — Self
29. Camelot (1967) — King Arthur
30. The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) — John Morgan / Horse
31. Abraham (1993) — Abraham
32. Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) — Frank
33. Hawaii (1966) — Rafer Hoxworth
34. The Hunchback (1997) — Dom Frollo
35. The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) — Higgins
36. Caprice (1967) — Christopher White
37. Grizzly Falls (1999) — Old Harry
38. The Apocalypse (2004) — John
39. Cry, the Beloved Country (1995) — James Jarvis
40. The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) — Cpl. Johnstone

Directed

1. Bloomfield (1970) — Director