Richard Harris

ActorProducerDirectorWriter Oct 1 (died age 72) Limerick City, Munster, Ireland 1948–2022 (74 year career)

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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 Cromwel…

Known For

Film

Gladiator

Marcus Aurelius

Film

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Albus Dumbledore

Film

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Albus Dumbledore

Film

Unforgiven

English Bob

Film

The Count of Monte Cristo

Abbé Faria

Film

Patriot Games

Paddy O'Neil

Film

The Guns of Navarone

Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF

Film

Red Desert

Corrado Zeller

Filmography

Acting (100)

Movies (84)

Exterior Day

2022

Strength and Honor: Production Pods

2005

as Self

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

as Self

The Apocalypse

as John

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

2004

as Self

7.7

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

2003

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2002

as Albus Dumbledore

7.7

The Count of Monte Cristo

2002

as Abbé Faria

7.7

The Apocalypse

2002

as Apostle John

Arthur: King of the Britons

2002

as Presenter

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

2002

as Self

7.2

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

as Albus Dumbledore

The Pearl

as Dr. Karl

My Kingdom

as Sandeman

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

as Self

Gladiator

as Marcus Aurelius

Hellraisers

as Self

Grizzly Falls

as Old Harry

To Walk with Lions

as George Adamson

The Barber of Siberia

1998

as Douglas McCraken

7.0

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

1998

as Self (archive footage)

5.8

The Hunchback

1997

as Dom Frollo

5.9

Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Dr. Andreas Tork

This Is the Sea

as Old Man Jacobs

Trojan Eddie

as John Power

Savage Hearts

as Sir Roger Foxley

Cry, the Beloved Country

as James Jarvis

The Great Kandinsky

as Ernest Kandinsky

Abraham

as Abraham

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

as Frank

Silent Tongue

as Prescott Roe

Unforgiven

as English Bob

Patriot Games

as Paddy O'Neil

The Field

as 'Bull' McCabe

King of the Wind

as King George II

Mack the Knife

as Mr. Peachum

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

as Self

Maigret

as Jules Maigret

Strike Commando 2

as Major Vic Jenkins

Martin's Day

as Martin Steckert

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

1983

as John Morgan - Man Called Horse

Highpoint

as Lewis Kinney

Camelot

as King Arthur

Tarzan the Ape Man

as James Porter

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

as Jason

Ravagers

as Falk

The Last Word

as Danny Travis

Game for Vultures

as David Swansey

The Wild Geese

as Capt. Rafer Janders

6.8

Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

1978

as Self

Gulliver's Travels

as Gulliver

Orca

as Captain Nolan

Golden Rendezvous

as John Carter

Echoes of a Summer

as Eugene

The Cassandra Crossing

1976

as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain

6.2

Robin and Marian

1976

as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard

6.3

The Return of a Man Called Horse

1976

as John Morgan / Horse

5.7

Juggernaut

1974

as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon

99 and 44/100% Dead

as Harry Crown

The Deadly Trackers

as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick

5.6

Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

as Self

The Snow Goose

as Philip Rhayadar

Man in the Wilderness

as Zachary Bass

The Molly Maguires

as James McKenna

A Man Called Horse

as John Morgan

Cromwell

as Oliver Cromwell

Bloomfield

as Eitan

Return of the Islander

as Narrator (voice)

Camelot

as King Arthur

Caprice

as Christopher White

The Bible: In the Beginning...

as Cain

Hawaii

as Rafer Hoxworth

The Heroes of Telemark

1965

as Knut Straud

6.9

The Three Faces

1965

as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")

5.0

Major Dundee

1965

as Captain Benjamin Tyreen

Red Desert

as Corrado Zeller

This Sporting Life

as Frank Machin

Mutiny on the Bounty

as Seaman John Mills

The Guns of Navarone

as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF

7.3

The Long and the Short and the Tall

as Cpl. Johnstone

A Terrible Beauty

as Sean Reilly

Alive and Kicking

as Lover

Shake Hands with the Devil

1959

as Terence O'Brien

6.6

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959

as Higgins

6.2

Television (16)

Julius Caesar

2002

as Lucius Silla

5.8

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

as Self

Bette

Abraham

as Abraham

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

1993

as Self

Russell Harty

Dinah!

as Self

Flick Flack

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

The Hollywood Palace

as Self - Singer

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host

Cinépanorama

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Philip Rhayadar

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

The Return of a Man Called Horse

Executive Producer

Bloomfield

Director

Bloomfield

Screenplay