Richard Harris

Acting · Born 1930-10-01 in Limerick City, Munster, Ireland

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)…

Filmography

• Unforgiven as English Bob
• Gladiator as Marcus Aurelius
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Albus Dumbledore
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as Albus Dumbledore
• The Bible: In the Beginning... as Cain
• The Guns of Navarone as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
• Mutiny on the Bounty as Seaman John Mills
• The Count of Monte Cristo as Abbé Faria
• Red Desert as Corrado Zeller
• Bloomfield as Eitan

TV

• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
• Bette
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Philip Rhayadar
• The Hollywood Palace as Self - Singer
• The Oscars as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
• Julius Caesar as Lucius Silla
• The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
• Cinépanorama as Self