Richard 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.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

7.9

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

7.7

Gladiator

8.2

Unforgiven

7.9

The Count of Monte Cristo

7.7

Patriot Games

6.7

The Guns of Navarone

7.3

Red Desert

7.4

Orca

6.1

Mutiny on the Bounty

7.0

The Wild Geese

6.8

The Bible: In the Beginning...

7.3

Smilla's Sense of Snow

6.3

Robin and Marian

6.3

The Cassandra Crossing

6.3

A Man Called Horse

6.4

Major Dundee

6.7

The Heroes of Telemark

6.9

The Barber of Siberia

7.1

This Sporting Life

7.0

Juggernaut

6.1

Tarzan the Ape Man

4.1

Kaena: The Prophecy

5.9

Cromwell

6.6

Man in the Wilderness

6.2

The Field

7.0

The Molly Maguires

6.3

Camelot

6.2

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.4

The Oscars

7.0

Julius Caesar

6.6

The Return of a Man Called Horse

5.6

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

6.3

Hawaii

6.4

The Hunchback

5.9

Abraham

7.0

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

6.2

Grizzly Falls

5.9

Caprice

5.9

The Apocalypse

5.3

Honest Trailers

6.3

The Long and the Short and the Tall

7.1

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

5.8

Cry, the Beloved Country

6.7

Shake Hands with the Devil

6.5

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

5.8

Gulliver's Travels

5.6

Silent Tongue

4.8

The Deadly Trackers

5.6

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.6

The Dick Cavett Show

6.7

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

7.4

Strike Commando 2

5.0

To Walk with Lions

6.1

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

7.1

Ravagers

4.3

99 and 44/100% Dead

4.6

Return of the Islander

5.3

Julius Caesar

6.0

Martin's Day

6.2

Golden Rendezvous

4.9

Bloomfield

5.1

My Kingdom

5.1

Echoes of a Summer

5.6

The Pearl

4.4

Bette

7.9

The Mike Douglas Show

5.1

This Is the Sea

5.7

Mack the Knife

6.6

Trojan Eddie

5.3

A Terrible Beauty

4.9

The Snow Goose

7.3

Highpoint

4.8

Alive and Kicking

6.9

Hallmark Hall of Fame

8.7

The Three Faces

5.6

King of the Wind

6.4

Game for Vultures

4.4

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

5.8

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

5.0

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

7.2

The Hollywood Palace

4.5

The Ghost of Richard Harris

7.5

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

7.3

Cinépanorama

8.0

Dinah!

6.5

The Great Kandinsky

6.0

Savage Hearts

4.0

The Last Word

4.0

Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

4.0

Abraham

8.0

Hellraisers

0.0

Arthur: King of the Britons

0.0

Maigret

0.0

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

0.0

Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese

0.0

Exterior Day

0.0

Russell Harty

0.0

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

0.0

Flick Flack

0.0