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Richard Harris

Acting
Known For

72 Years Old

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.

Born

Limerick City, Munster, Ireland on 1st October 1930

Died

25th October 2002

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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid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