George Harrison
Known for: Acting
George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's break-up, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the acclaimed and successful triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which came two singles: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, another former Beatle, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised a major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. Besides being a musician, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna. He was married twice, to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1974, and for 23 years to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. He is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.
Filmography
Series
The Simpsons
George Harrison (voice)
1989
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
1975
Series
Top of the Pops
Self
1964
Series
Top of the Pops
1964
Series
Doctor Who
Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)
1963
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
Wogan
Self
1982
Series
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Series
Omnibus
Self
1967
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
Classic Albums
Self
1997
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
Timewatch
Self (archive footage)
1982
Film
Life of Brian
Mr. Papadopolous (uncredited)
1979
Series
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self (uncredited)
1967
Series
Morecambe & Wise
Self
1961
Series
Sherwood
Nikko
2022
Series
History 101
Self (archive footage)
2020
Series
Disco
Self
1971
Series
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Self (archive footage)
2021
Series
This Is Pop
Self (archive footage)
2021
Series
The Beatles Anthology
Self
1995
Series
The Beatles: Get Back
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
A Hard Day's Night
George
1964
Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
Man on the Run
Self (archive footage)
2026
Film
Yellow Submarine
George (uncredited)
1968
Series
The Beatles
Self (vocals musical segments) (uncredited)
1965
Film
Ringo
George Harrison
1978
Series
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
Film
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)
2022
Series
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Self (archive footage)
2018
Television: The First Fifty Years
Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
1999
Film
Help!
George
1965
Frost on Sunday
Self (as The Beatles)
1968
Film
My Generation
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
The Beach Boys
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties
Self
1986
Film
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
How the Beatles Changed the World
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Beatles '64
Self (archive footage)
2024
Series
David Frost Vs
self (archive footage)
2025
Film
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Self (Archive Footage)
2016
Film
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
Self
2025
Film
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Self
1983
Film
Let It Be
Self - The Beatles (uncredited)
1970
Series
In Their Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Evolver 62
Self (archive footage)
2026
Film
Naqoyqatsi
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Film
The Summer of Love
2017
Film
Genius
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Self (archive footage)
1978
Film
The Prince's Trust Rock Gala
Self (archive footage)
1990
Film
Water
Himself - The Singing Rebels' Band
1985
Film
Imagine
Self
1972
Film
Shanghai Surprise
Nightclub Singer
1986
Film
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
Concert for George
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
The Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany
Self - The Beatles
1966
Film
Superswede: A film about Ronnie Peterson
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
Self (archive footage)
2018
Series
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008
Film
Magical Mystery Tour
Self / Magician Looking Through Telescope
1967
Film
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
2003
Series
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
Self (archive footage)
2009
Series
McCartney 3, 2, 1
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
An Accidental Studio
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer (archive footage)
2003
Film
Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
(Archive footage)
2013
Film
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
The Interviewer (Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer)
1978
Film
The Movie Life of George
Self
1989
Film
Beatles: Big Beat Box
Self (archive footage)
2001
Film
Pop Gear
Self
1965
Film
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
If These Walls Could Sing
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
1982
Series
20th Century Greats
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
Imagine: John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
1988
Film
Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
The Concert for Bangladesh
Self
1972
Film
Meeting the Beatles in India
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Self
1999
Film
Jimi Plays Monterey
Self (archive footage)
1987
Film
Doctor Who: The Chase
Self (archive footage)
1965
Film
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
Self (archive footage)
2018
Tom Petty: Going Home
Self
1994
Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
Self (archive footage)
1992
Film
This Is Elvis
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1981
Film
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Self - Musician (archive footage)
2017
Film
THE BEATLES in HELP!
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
Hagström: Allt i musik
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
Self
1993
Film
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
Film
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Self (archival footage)
2021
The Shadows At Sixty
Self (Archive Footage)
2020
Film
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
The Beatles and India
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
The Bannfoot Ferry
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Take Your Pills
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
Free to Rock
Self - The Beatles (archive footage)
2017
Film
14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
Self
2018
Film
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
Self (archive footage)
1965
Film
The Beatles 1+
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Night Lunch
Self
1975
Film
Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Raga
Self
1971
Film
Palme
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Wingspan
Self (archive footage)
2001
Film
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
No Hamburg, No Beatles
Self (voice) (archive footage)
2024
Film
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
Self (archive footage)
1991
Rock Milestones: The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
Checking Out
Cleaner
1988
Film
Curves Contours & Body Horns
Self
1993
Film
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
Self
2025
Film
The Beatles In America
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
Good Ol' Freda
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
Elvis: King of Entertainment
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
Beatles
Film
The Society of the Spectacle
Self (archive footage)
1974
Film
The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
Self
1992
Film
Beatles Stories
Self (archive footage)
2011
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
1992
Film
ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
The Compleat Beatles
Self (archive footage)
1982
Film
Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies
archive footage
2010
Film
George Harrison - All Things Pass
Self (archive footage)
2018
Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Blue Album 1967 - 1970
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
2024
Film
George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
Self
1974
Film
Project 9: The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band
Self (archive footage)
2009
Film
TWST / Things We Said Today
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
Self (archive footage)
1969
Film
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Mighty Good: The Beatles
Self
1977
Film
The Beatles Explosion
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
The Beatles Mod Odyssey
Self
1968
British Rock: The First Wave
Self (archive footage)
1985
Film
Our World
Self
1967
Film
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
Self
2000
Film
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
Self (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
2019
Film
The Beatles Phenomenon
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
Self (archive footage)
2005
Film
All My Loving
Self
1968
Film
The Beatles: Abbey Road
Self - Guitar, Vocals
1969
Film
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Self
1995
Film
Året var 1963
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Becoming the Beatles
Self
2012
Film
The Beatles 1
Self (archive footage)
2015
Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles
Self (archive footage)
1974
Film
Doctor Who: Origins
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
Self - The Beatles Member
1964
Film
El Rey en Londres
Self (archive footage)
1966
Film
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
Self
1977
Film
A Love Letter to the Beatles
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966)
Self
1966
Film
Building the Beatles
Self (Archive Footage)
Film
The Beatles: The Complete Story
Self (Archive Footage)
2010
Film
Beatles: The Journey
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
The Beatles: Live in Paris
Self
1965
Film
Året var 1967
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
The Beatles: Around the World
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Beatles Biggest Secrets
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
The Beatles Story
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
The Beatles: A Celebration
Self (archive footage)
1999
The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel
Self
1978
Film
The Beatles: Parting Ways
Self
2009
Film
Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
The Beatles in Australia
Self
1964
Film
Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One
Self (archive footage)
1969
Film
Monument
Self (archive footage)
1967
Film
The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries
Self
2009
Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Red Album 1962 - 1966
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
The Beatles Sing for Shell
Self
1964
Film
Carl Perkins & Friends: Blue Suede Shoes - A Rockabilly Session
Self
1985
Film
The Beatles and the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Understanding Lennon/McCartney
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands
Self
1964
Film
The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland
self
2008
Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Things They Said Today
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
George Harrison: Live in Japan
1991
Film
The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
Self
2007
Film
The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
The Beatles - Trilogy
Self
2003
Film
Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
Self
2022
Film
The Beatles
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
Self (archive footage)
1964
The Beatles: A Magical History Tour
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
The Beatles - 1967-1970
Self (archive footage)
Film
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum
Self
1964
The Beatles: Watching Rainbows
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
The Beatles: Revolution
Self
1968
Film
The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2
Self - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
2005
Film
Around the Beatles
Self
1964
Film
Fun with the Fab Four
Self (archive footage)
1986
Film
I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
Film
To John With Love
Self
2006
Film
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
The Beatles: Love
Self
2006
Film
The Beatles: Something
Self
1969
Film
The Day the Music Died
Self
1977
Film
George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited
Self
2005
Film
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two
Self (archive footage)
1969
Film
Ringo Starr: One of Them
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
The Beatles on Record
Self
2009
Film
Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live
Self
1993
Film
The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966)
Self - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
1966
Film
Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere
Self (archive footage)
2009
How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
George Harrison - The Quiet one
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
The Beatles Unauthorized
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary
Self (archive footage)
1994
Film
George Harrison: Live at The Royal Albert Hall
1992
Film
Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits
Self (archive)
2005
Film
Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 2
Self
1987
Film
The Beatles Come to Town
Self
1963
Film
The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
Self (archive footage)
2005
Film
My Sweet Lord in the Far East
Self
1991
Film
The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966
Self
1966
Film
The Beatles: Their Golden Age
Self
2012
Film
Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Badfinger - They Sold A Million
Self (Archive Footage)
2013
Film
Meet the Beatles
Self (Archival footage)
2005
Film
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
The Winged Beetle
Self
2012
Film
The Mersey Sound
Self
1963
Film
Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
Self
1967
Film
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
George Harrison: In Performance
2008
Film
George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
George Harrison: The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
Self
2018
All You Need Is Love
Self
1967
Film
Reflections on Love
Self (archive footage)
1966
Film
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
Beatles på Sverigeturné
Self (archive footage)
2014
Beatles chronology (1962-1970)
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three
Self (archive footage)
1969
Film
Roy Orbison at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965
Self (Archive Footage)
2008
Film
Beatles Electroniques
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1969
Film
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
Self
2022
Film
Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India
Self
2010
Film
George Harrison: Live in North America 1974
1974
Film
The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966
Self
2012
Film
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Live In Denmark 1969
Self
2014
Film
Inside the Beatles: 1962-1970
Film
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3
Self (archive footage)
2011
Taj Mahal and Friends
Self
1987
Film
The Beatles: Up Close and Personal
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
Louder Than Rock
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool
Self
1963
Film
George Harrison: All things must pass
Self (archive footage)
2004