Richard Harris
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage)
1962
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
1961
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Film
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Albus Dumbledore
2001
Film
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Albus Dumbledore
2002
Film
Gladiator
Marcus Aurelius
2000
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
Dinah!
Self
1974
Film
The Count of Monte Cristo
Abbé Faria
2002
Film
Unforgiven
English Bob
1992
Series
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Film
Patriot Games
Paddy O'Neil
1992
Film
The Guns of Navarone
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
1961
Series
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
2001
Film
The Field
'Bull' McCabe
1990
Series
The Hollywood Palace
Self - Singer
1964
Film
The Wild Geese
Capt. Rafer Janders
1978
Film
Orca
Captain Nolan
1977
Series
Bette
2000
Film
The Heroes of Telemark
Knut Straud
1965
Film
The Hunchback
Dom Frollo
1997
Film
Tarzan the Ape Man
James Porter
1981
Film
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Cain
1966
Film
Major Dundee
Captain Benjamin Tyreen
1965
Film
Mutiny on the Bounty
Seaman John Mills
1962
Film
A Man Called Horse
John Morgan
1970
Film
The Cassandra Crossing
Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
1976
Series
Julius Caesar
Lucius Silla
2002
Film
Robin and Marian
Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
1976
Film
Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
1970
Russell Harty
1980
Film
Red Desert
Corrado Zeller
1964
Film
Camelot
King Arthur
1967
Film
Hawaii
Rafer Hoxworth
1966
Series
Flick Flack
1974
Film
Juggernaut
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
1974
Film
The Barber of Siberia
Douglas McCraken
1998
Film
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Dr. Andreas Tork
1997
Film
This Sporting Life
Frank Machin
1963
Series
Abraham
Abraham
1994
Film
The Return of a Man Called Horse
John Morgan / Horse
1976
Film
Abraham
Abraham
1993
Film
The Molly Maguires
James McKenna
1970
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Philip Rhayadar
1951
Film
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Frank
1993
Film
Savage Hearts
Sir Roger Foxley
1995
Series
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self
1993
Film
Man in the Wilderness
Zachary Bass
1971
Film
Highpoint
Lewis Kinney
1984
Film
Camelot
King Arthur
1982
Film
The Apocalypse
John
2004
Film
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
Self (archive footage)
1998
Film
Mack the Knife
Mr. Peachum
1989
Film
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Higgins
1959
Film
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Self
2005
Film
Caprice
Christopher White
1967
Film
Grizzly Falls
Old Harry
1999
Film
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
John Morgan - Man Called Horse
1983
Film
Cry, the Beloved Country
James Jarvis
1995
Film
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Self
1988
Film
The Deadly Trackers
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
1973
Film
Shake Hands with the Devil
Terence O'Brien
1959
Film
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Cpl. Johnstone
1961
Film
The Three Faces
Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
1965
Film
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Jason
1981
Film
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
2004
Film
My Kingdom
Sandeman
2001
Film
To Walk with Lions
George Adamson
1999
Film
99 and 44/100% Dead
Harry Crown
1974
Film
Silent Tongue
Prescott Roe
1994
Film
Ravagers
Falk
1979
Film
Martin's Day
Martin Steckert
1985
Film
Maigret
Jules Maigret
1988
Film
Game for Vultures
David Swansey
1979
Film
Golden Rendezvous
John Carter
1977
Film
Exterior Day
2022
Film
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver
1977
Film
This Is the Sea
Old Man Jacobs
1997
Film
King of the Wind
King George II
1990
Film
Strike Commando 2
Major Vic Jenkins
1988
Film
A Terrible Beauty
Sean Reilly
1960
Film
Echoes of a Summer
Eugene
1976
The Great Kandinsky
Ernest Kandinsky
1995
Film
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
2002
Film
Arthur: King of the Britons
Presenter
2002
Film
Trojan Eddie
John Power
1996
Film
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Self
2005
Film
Alive and Kicking
Lover
1959
Film
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
Self
1973
Film
The Last Word
Danny Travis
1979
Film
Hellraisers
Self
2000
Film
The Pearl
Dr. Karl
2001
Film
The Snow Goose
Philip Rhayadar
1971
Film
Bloomfield
Eitan
1970
Film
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Self
2001
Film
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
Self
1978
Film
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
Return of the Islander
Narrator (voice)
1970