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.
100 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 100
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Gladiator
2000
The Oscars
1953
Dinah!
1974
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Film '72
1971
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Cinépanorama
1956
The Hollywood Palace
1964
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
Unforgiven
1992
Bette
2000
The Guns of Navarone
1961
Patriot Games
1992
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Wild Geese
1978
Orca
1977
Russell Harty
1980
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
Flick Flack
1974
Julius Caesar
2002
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981
The Barber of Siberia
1998
Abraham
1994
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
Red Desert
1964
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
Major Dundee
1965
A Man Called Horse
1970
Camelot
1967
The Field
1990
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
Man in the Wilderness
1971
Robin and Marian
1976
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
Hawaii
1966
Juggernaut
1974
Abraham
1993
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
The Hunchback
1997
Cromwell
1970
The Apocalypse
2004
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
The Molly Maguires
1970
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988
Caprice
1967
Cry, the Beloved Country
1995
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
Ravagers
1979
Highpoint
1982
Silent Tongue
1994
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
1983
Golden Rendezvous
1977
To Walk with Lions
1999
The Last Word
1979
This Is the Sea
1997
Grizzly Falls
1999
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
The Deadly Trackers
1973
Trojan Eddie
1996
Mack the Knife
1989
This Sporting Life
1963
Maigret
1988
Alive and Kicking
1959
The Pearl
2001
Martin's Day
1985
The Three Faces
1965
King of the Wind
1990
Bloomfield
1970
My Kingdom
2001
Strike Commando 2
1988
Gulliver's Travels
1977
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001
The Great Kandinsky
1995
A Terrible Beauty
1960
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
Echoes of a Summer
1976
Game for Vultures
1979
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978
Hellraisers
2000
The Snow Goose
1971
Camelot
1982
Savage Hearts
1995
Exterior Day
2022
Arthur: King of the Britons
2002
Return of the Islander
1970
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1973