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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.
Acted in 76
2020s
- 2022
Exterior Day
Movie
2000s
- 2004
- 2003
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Movie
- 2002
Julius Caesar
Lucius Silla · 2 episodes
Arthur: King of the Britons
Presenter
- 2001
The Pearl
Dr. Karl
- 2000
Bette
TV
1990s
- 1999
To Walk with Lions
George Adamson
- 1998
- 1997
- 1996
Trojan Eddie
John Power
- 1995
Cry, the Beloved Country
James Jarvis
Savage Hearts
Sir Roger Foxley
- 1994
- 1993
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Frank
Abraham
Abraham
Abraham
Abraham · 2 episodes
- 1992
- 1990
King of the Wind
King George II
1980s
- 1989
Mack the Knife
Mr. Peachum
- 1988
Strike Commando 2
Major Vic Jenkins
Maigret
Jules Maigret
- 1985
- 1984
- 1983
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
John Morgan - Man Called Horse
- 1982
- 1981
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Jason
1970s
- 1979
The Last Word
Danny Travis
Ravagers
Falk
Game for Vultures
David Swansey
- 1978
- 1977
Golden Rendezvous
John Carter
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver
- 1976
Echoes of a Summer
Eugene
- 1974
99 and 44/100% Dead
Harry Crown
Flick Flack
TV
- 1973
The Deadly Trackers
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
- 1971
Man in the Wilderness
Zachary Bass
The Snow Goose
Philip Rhayadar
- 1970
1960s
- 1967
Caprice
Christopher White
- 1966
- 1965
The Three Faces
Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
- 1964
- 1963
- 1962
- 1961
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Cpl. Johnstone
- 1960
A Terrible Beauty
Sean Reilly
1950s
- 1959
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Higgins
Alive and Kicking
Lover
Shake Hands with the Devil
Terence O'Brien
- 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Philip Rhayadar · 1 episode
Directed 1
1970s
- 1970
Produced 1
Wrote 1
1970s
- 1970
Appearances20
2000s
- 2005
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Self
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Self
- 2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self - Professor Dumbledore
- 2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
- 2001
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Self
- 2000
Hellraisers
Self
1990s
- 1998
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
Self (archive footage)
- 1993
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self · 1 episode
1980s
- 1988
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Self
1970s
- 1978
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
Self
- 1974
- 1973
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
Self
1960s
- 1968
- 1964
- 1962
- 1961
1940s
- 1948
