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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 1, 1930
Died
October 25, 2002
Place of Birth
Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Also Known As
- Richard St. John Harris
- ریچارد هریس
Richard Harris
3.3 Popularity
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 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.
Known For
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Exterior Day
2022
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Self
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
7.3
Self
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
5.3
John
The Apocalypse
2004
7.7
Self
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
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The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
5.8
Lucius Silla
Julius Caesar
2002
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Apostle John
The Apocalypse
2002
7.7
Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
7.2
Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
Credits
Exterior Day
2022
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Strength and Honor: Production Pods
as Self
2005
0.0
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
as Self
2005
7.3
The Apocalypse
as John
2004
5.3
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
2004
7.7
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
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Julius Caesar
as Lucius Silla
2002
5.8
The Apocalypse
as Apostle John
2002
0.0
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Albus Dumbledore
2002
7.7
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Self
2002
7.2
Arthur: King of the Britons
as Presenter
2002
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The Count of Monte Cristo
as Abbé Faria
2002
7.7
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
as Self
2001
7.3
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Albus Dumbledore
2001
7.9
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
2001
6.0
My Kingdom
as Sandeman
2001
5.1
The Pearl
as Dr. Karl
2001
4.4
Bette
2000
7.9
Hellraisers
as Self
2000
0.0
Gladiator
as Marcus Aurelius
2000
8.2
Grizzly Falls
as Old Harry
1999
5.9
To Walk with Lions
as George Adamson
1999
5.6
The Barber of Siberia
as Douglas McCraken
1998
7.1
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
as Self (archive footage)
1998
5.8
This Is the Sea
as Old Man Jacobs
1997
5.7
The Hunchback
as Dom Frollo
1997
5.9
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Dr. Andreas Tork
1997
6.3
Trojan Eddie
as John Power
1996
4.9
Cry, the Beloved Country
as James Jarvis
1995
6.7
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The Great Kandinsky
as Ernest Kandinsky
1995
6.0
Savage Hearts
as Sir Roger Foxley
1995
2.5
Abraham
as Abraham
1994
8.0
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Frank
1993
6.2
Abraham
as Abraham
1993
6.9
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
1993
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Silent Tongue
as Prescott Roe
1993
4.6
Unforgiven
as English Bob
1992
7.9
Patriot Games
as Paddy O'Neil
1992
6.7
The Field
as 'Bull' McCabe
1990
7.0
King of the Wind
as King George II
1990
6.4
Mack the Knife
as Mr. Peachum
1989
6.6
Strike Commando 2
as Major Vic Jenkins
1988
4.5
Maigret
as Jules Maigret
1988
7.0
Martin's Day
as Martin Steckert
1985
6.2
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
1983
5.8
Camelot
as King Arthur
1982
8.0
Highpoint
as Lewis Kinney
1982
4.8
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
as Jason
1981
4.4
Tarzan the Ape Man
as James Porter
1981
4.0
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Russell Harty
1980
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The Last Word
as Danny Travis
1979
4.0
Ravagers
as Falk
1979
4.3
Game for Vultures
as David Swansey
1979
4.4
The Wild Geese
as Capt. Rafer Janders
1978
6.8
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
as Self
1978
0.0
Golden Rendezvous
as John Carter
1977
4.9
Orca
as Captain Nolan
1977
6.2
Gulliver's Travels
as Gulliver
1977
5.5
The Cassandra Crossing
as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
1976
6.2
The Return of a Man Called Horse
as John Morgan / Horse
1976
5.7
Robin and Marian
as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
1976
6.3
Echoes of a Summer
as Eugene
1976
5.1
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
as Self
1976
4.0
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Juggernaut
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
1974
6.2
99 and 44/100% Dead
as Harry Crown
1974
4.9
Flick Flack
1974
0.0
The Deadly Trackers
as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
1973
5.6
Man in the Wilderness
as Zachary Bass
1971
6.2
The Snow Goose
as Philip Rhayadar
1971
7.0
Bloomfield
as Eitan
1970
5.1
Cromwell
as Oliver Cromwell
1970
6.5
A Man Called Horse
as John Morgan
1970
6.5
The Molly Maguires
as James McKenna
1970
6.3
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Return of the Islander
as Narrator (voice)
1970
5.3
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Camelot
as King Arthur
1967
6.2
Caprice
as Christopher White
1967
5.8
Hawaii
as Rafer Hoxworth
1966
6.3
The Bible: In the Beginning...
as Cain
1966
7.3
The Heroes of Telemark
as Knut Straud
1965
6.9
Major Dundee
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
1965
6.6
The Three Faces
as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
1965
5.6
Red Desert
as Corrado Zeller
1964
7.3
The Hollywood Palace
as Self - Singer
1964
4.5
This Sporting Life
as Frank Machin
1963
7.0
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Seaman John Mills
1962
7.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Guns of Navarone
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
1961
7.3
The Long and the Short and the Tall
as Cpl. Johnstone
1961
6.8
A Terrible Beauty
as Sean Reilly
1960
4.9
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
as Higgins
1959
6.2
Alive and Kicking
as Lover
1959
6.9
Shake Hands with the Devil
as Terence O'Brien
1959
6.5
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Philip Rhayadar
1951
8.6
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8