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Richard Harris

Richard Harris

Actor · 1930 – 2002 · Limerick City, Munster, Ireland

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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.9
  • Movie7.7
  • Movie8.2

    Gladiator

    2000 · 21K votes

  • Movie7.9

    Unforgiven

    1992 · 5.1K votes

  • Movie7.7

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    2002 · 2.1K votes

  • Movie6.7

    Patriot Games

    1992 · 1.9K votes

  • Movie7.3

    The Guns of Navarone

    1961 · 911 votes

  • Movie7.3
  • Movie6.8

    The Wild Geese

    1978 · 295 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Mutiny on the Bounty

    1962 · 359 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Orca

    1977 · 482 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Major Dundee

    1965 · 181 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Cassandra Crossing

    1976 · 239 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Il deserto rosso

    Red Desert

    1964 · 516 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Heroes of Telemark

    1965 · 188 votes

  • Movie4.1

    Tarzan the Ape Man

    1981 · 113 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Smilla's Sense of Snow

    1997 · 274 votes

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    The Molly Maguires

    1970 · 87 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Juggernaut

    1974 · 147 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Hunchback

    1997 · 50 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Robin and Marian

    1976 · 280 votes

  • Movie6.4

    A Man Called Horse

    1970 · 242 votes

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    The Barber of Siberia

    Сибирский цирюльник

    1998 · 161 votes

Series15

  • TV7.5
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Dick Cavett Show

    1968 · 22 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV7.0

    Dinah!

    1974 · 4 votes

  • TV5.1

    Film '72

    1971 · 8 votes

  • TV6.1
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    Cinépanorama

    1956 · 3 votes

  • TV5.0

    The Hollywood Palace

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV8.8

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    1951 · 8 votes

  • TV7.8

    Bette

    2000 · 8 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV6.1

    Julius Caesar

    2002 · 18 votes

  • TV7.2

    Abraham

    1993 · 4 votes