Richard Harris

from Limerick City, Munster, Ireland

Artwork for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneImage of 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 song "MacArthur Park". In 2020, he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Timeline

2022Aged 92

  • Poster for Exterior Day

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Ghost of Richard Harris

    Self (archive footage)

2005Aged 75

  • Poster for Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

    Self

2004Aged 74

  • Poster for The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

    Self

  • Poster for The Apocalypse

    John

2003Aged 73

  • Poster for Kaena: The Prophecy

    Opaz (english voice)

  • Poster for The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

    (Unknown)

2002Aged 72

  • Poster for The Count of Monte Cristo

    Abbé Faria

  • Poster for Arthur: King of the Britons

    Presenter

  • Poster for Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

    Self

  • Poster for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

    Albus Dumbledore

2001Aged 71

  • Poster for The Pearl

    Dr. Karl

  • Poster for My Kingdom

    Sandeman

  • Poster for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    Albus Dumbledore

  • Poster for Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

    Self

2000Aged 70

  • Poster for Gladiator

    Marcus Aurelius

  • Poster for Hellraisers

    Self

1999Aged 69

  • Poster for To Walk with Lions

    George Adamson

  • Poster for Grizzly Falls

    Old Harry

1998Aged 68

  • Poster for Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Barber of Siberia

    Douglas McCraken

1997Aged 67

  • Poster for Smilla's Sense of Snow

    Dr. Andreas Tork

  • Poster for The Hunchback

    Dom Frollo

  • Poster for This Is the Sea

    Old Man Jacobs

1996Aged 66

  • Poster for Trojan Eddie

    John Power

1995Aged 65

1993Aged 63

  • Poster for Silent Tongue

    Prescott Roe

  • Poster for Abraham

    Abraham

  • Poster for Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

    Frank

1992Aged 62

  • Poster for Patriot Games

    Paddy O'Neil

  • Poster for Unforgiven

    English Bob

1990Aged 60

  • Poster for King of the Wind

    King George II

  • Poster for The Field

    'Bull' McCabe

1989Aged 59

  • Poster for Mack the Knife

    Mr. Peachum

1988Aged 58

  • Poster for Maigret

    Jules Maigret

  • Poster for Strike Commando 2

    Major Vic Jenkins

1985Aged 55

  • Poster for Martin's Day

    Martin Steckert

1983Aged 53

  • Poster for Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

    John Morgan - Man Called Horse

1982Aged 52

  • Poster for Highpoint

    Lewis Kinney

  • Poster for Camelot

    King Arthur

1981Aged 51

  • Poster for Tarzan the Ape Man

    James Porter

  • Poster for Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

    Jason

1979Aged 49

  • Poster for Game for Vultures

    David Swansey

  • Poster for Ravagers

    Falk

  • Poster for The Last Word

    Danny Travis

1978Aged 48

  • Poster for Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese

    Self

  • Poster for The Wild Geese

    Capt. Rafer Janders

1977Aged 47

  • Poster for Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver

  • Poster for Orca

    Captain Nolan

  • Poster for Golden Rendezvous

    John Carter

1976Aged 46

  • Poster for Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

    Self

  • Poster for Echoes of a Summer

    Eugene

  • Poster for Robin and Marian

    Richard the Lionheart / King Richard

  • Poster for The Return of a Man Called Horse

    John Morgan / Horse

  • Poster for The Cassandra Crossing

    Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain

1974Aged 44

  • Poster for 99 and 44/100% Dead

    Harry Crown

  • Poster for Juggernaut

    Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon

1973Aged 43

  • Poster for The Deadly Trackers

    Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick

1971Aged 41

  • Poster for The Snow Goose

    Philip Rhayadar

  • Poster for Man in the Wilderness

    Zachary Bass

1970Aged 40

1967Aged 37

  • Poster for Caprice

    Christopher White

  • Poster for Camelot

    King Arthur

1966Aged 36

  • Poster for The Bible: In the Beginning...

    Cain

  • Poster for Hawaii

    Rafer Hoxworth

1965Aged 35

  • Poster for The Three Faces

    Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")

  • Poster for Major Dundee

    Captain Benjamin Tyreen

  • Poster for The Heroes of Telemark

    Knut Straud

1964Aged 34

  • Poster for Red Desert

    Corrado Zeller

1963Aged 33

  • Poster for This Sporting Life

    Frank Machin

1962Aged 32

  • Poster for Mutiny on the Bounty

    Seaman John Mills

1961Aged 31

  • Poster for The Long and the Short and the Tall

    Cpl. Johnstone

  • Poster for The Guns of Navarone

    Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF

1960Aged 30

  • Poster for A Terrible Beauty

    Sean Reilly

1959Aged 29

  • Poster for Shake Hands with the Devil

    Terence O'Brien

  • Poster for Alive and Kicking

    Lover

  • Poster for The Wreck of the Mary Deare

    Higgins