Richard Harris
Acting
🎂 1930-10-01
Richard St John Francis Harris 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(101)
Self
1962
Albus Dumbledore
2001
Self - Co-Host
1961
Self
1961
Albus Dumbledore
2002
Marcus Aurelius
2000
Self
1948
Self
1953
Abbé Faria
2002
Self
1974
Self - Guest
1968
English Bob
1992
Self
1956
Paddy O'Neil
1992
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
1961
Self
2001
Douglas McCraken
1998
Captain Nolan
1977
Self - 'Professor Albus Dumbledore' (archive footage)
2009
Cain
1966
2000
Self - Singer
1964
Apostle John
2002
Seaman John Mills
1962
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
1974
Gulliver
1977
Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
1976
Capt. Rafer Janders
1978
Knut Straud
1965
Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
1976
James Porter
1981
Dr. Andreas Tork
1997
Jules Maigret
1988
King Arthur
1967
John
2004
Corrado Zeller
1964
Rafer Hoxworth
1966
John Morgan
1970
Self
2004
Captain Benjamin Tyreen
1965
Oliver Cromwell
1970
King George II
1990
Dom Frollo
1997
Philip Rhayadar
1951
Higgins
1959
John Morgan - Man Called Horse
1983
Frank
1993
Lucius Silla
2003
Abraham
1994
Falk
1979
Self (archive footage)
1998
Old Man Jacobs
1997
Danny Travis
1979
John Morgan / Horse
1976
King Arthur
1982
Ernest Kandinsky
1995
John Carter
1977
Zachary Bass
1971
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
1973
Lover
1959
1974
Lewis Kinney
1982
Self
1976
Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
1965
Philip Rhayadar
1971
Old Harry
1999
Frank Machin
1963
Eitan
1970
Cpl. Johnstone
1961
George Adamson
1999
Self
1993
'Bull' McCabe
1990
Martin Steckert
1985
Dr. Karl
2001
Terence O'Brien
1959
James McKenna
1970
Abraham
1993
Harry Crown
1974
Self
2002
Self
2001
Eugene
1976
Jason
1981
Sandeman
2001
Prescott Roe
1993
Christopher White
1967
James Jarvis
1995
John Power
1996
1980
Self
2000
Mr. Peachum
1989
Self
2005
Sir Roger Foxley
1995
Sean Reilly
1960
Major Vic Jenkins
1988
David Swansey
1979
2003
Presenter
2002
Self
1978
Self
2005
Narrator (voice)
1970
2022