Acting
Richard Harris
IT, EN, RU, GA cinema · 83 credits
Born
1 October 1930
Died
25 October 2002 (aged 72)
Birthplace
Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Also known as Richard St. John Harris
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.
Known for
Filmography
The Apocalypse
as John
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Albus Dumbledore
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Abbé Faria
Arthur: King of the Britons
as Presenter
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Albus Dumbledore
My Kingdom
as Sandeman
The Pearl
as Dr. Karl
Gladiator
as Marcus Aurelius
Grizzly Falls
as Old Harry
To Walk with Lions
as George Adamson
The Barber of Siberia
as Douglas McCraken
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
as Self (archive footage)
This Is the Sea
as Old Man Jacobs
The Hunchback
as Dom Frollo
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Dr. Andreas Tork
Trojan Eddie
as John Power
Cry, the Beloved Country
as James Jarvis
The Great Kandinsky
1995
The Great Kandinsky
as Ernest Kandinsky
Savage Hearts
as Sir Roger Foxley
Silent Tongue
as Prescott Roe
Abraham
as Abraham
Unforgiven
as English Bob
Patriot Games
as Paddy O'Neil
The Field
as 'Bull' McCabe
King of the Wind
as King George II
Mack the Knife
as Mr. Peachum
Strike Commando 2
as Major Vic Jenkins
Maigret
as Jules Maigret
Martin's Day
as Martin Steckert
Highpoint
as Lewis Kinney
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
Camelot
as King Arthur
Tarzan the Ape Man
as James Porter
Game for Vultures
as David Swansey
Ravagers
as Falk
The Last Word
as Danny Travis
The Wild Geese
as Capt. Rafer Janders
Orca
as Captain Nolan
Gulliver's Travels
as Gulliver
Golden Rendezvous
as John Carter
Robin and Marian
as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
The Cassandra Crossing
as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
The Return of a Man Called Horse
as John Morgan / Horse, Executive Producer
Echoes of a Summer
as Eugene
Juggernaut
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
99 and 44/100% Dead
as Harry Crown
The Deadly Trackers
as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
Man in the Wilderness
as Zachary Bass
The Snow Goose
as Philip Rhayadar
Bloomfield
as Eitan, Director, Screenplay
Cromwell
as Oliver Cromwell
The Molly Maguires
as James McKenna
A Man Called Horse
as John Morgan
An tOileánach a d'Fhill
1970
Return of the Islander
as Narrator (voice)
Caprice
as Christopher White
Camelot
as King Arthur
Hawaii
as Rafer Hoxworth
Major Dundee
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
The Heroes of Telemark
as Knut Straud
The Three Faces
as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
Red Desert
as Corrado Zeller
This Sporting Life
as Frank Machin
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Seaman John Mills
The Guns of Navarone
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
The Long and the Short and the Tall
as Cpl. Johnstone
A Terrible Beauty
as Sean Reilly
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
as Higgins
Shake Hands with the Devil
as Terence O'Brien
Alive and Kicking
as Lover