Cast
Richard Harris
Acting
Cast
Richard Harris
Known for
Acting
Born
1930-10-01
From
Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Died
2002-10-25
Also known as Richard St. John Harris
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.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Albus Dumbledore
Gladiator
as Marcus Aurelius
Unforgiven
as English Bob
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Abbé Faria
Camelot
as King Arthur
Patriot Games
as Paddy O'Neil
The Guns of Navarone
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
The Cassandra Crossing
as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
Orca
as Captain Nolan
The Bible: In the Beginning...
as Cain
The Hunchback
as Dom Frollo
Juggernaut
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
The Wild Geese
as Capt. Rafer Janders
The Barber of Siberia
as Douglas McCraken
The Field
as 'Bull' McCabe
Red Desert
as Corrado Zeller
Tarzan the Ape Man
as James Porter
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Seaman John Mills
Caprice
as Christopher White
Camelot
as King Arthur
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Dr. Andreas Tork
The Heroes of Telemark
as Knut Straud
A Man Called Horse
as John Morgan
Ravagers
as Falk
Hellraisers
as Self
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
as Self (archive footage)
Major Dundee
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
Golden Rendezvous
as John Carter
Man in the Wilderness
as Zachary Bass
Hawaii
as Rafer Hoxworth
Abraham
as Abraham
Cromwell
as Oliver Cromwell
Robin and Marian
as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
Highpoint
as Lewis Kinney
The Apocalypse
as John
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
as Higgins
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
The Return of a Man Called Horse
as John Morgan / Horse
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Frank
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
as Self
The Three Faces
as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
Cry, the Beloved Country
as James Jarvis
Echoes of a Summer
as Eugene
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
as Self
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
as Jason
The Molly Maguires
as James McKenna
This Is the Sea
as Old Man Jacobs
Savage Hearts
as Sir Roger Foxley
99 and 44/100% Dead
as Harry Crown
The Deadly Trackers
as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
King of the Wind
as King George II
This Sporting Life
as Frank Machin
Gulliver's Travels
as Gulliver
To Walk with Lions
as George Adamson
Mack the Knife
as Mr. Peachum
My Kingdom
as Sandeman
Shake Hands with the Devil
as Terence O'Brien
Silent Tongue
as Prescott Roe
Maigret
as Jules Maigret
The Last Word
as Danny Travis
Grizzly Falls
as Old Harry
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Self
Strike Commando 2
as Major Vic Jenkins
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
as Self
A Terrible Beauty
as Sean Reilly
The Long and the Short and the Tall
as Cpl. Johnstone
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
as Self
Trojan Eddie
as John Power
Bloomfield
as Eitan
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
as Self
Alive and Kicking
as Lover
The Great Kandinsky
as Ernest Kandinsky
The Pearl
as Dr. Karl
Martin's Day
as Martin Steckert
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Game for Vultures
as David Swansey
The Snow Goose
as Philip Rhayadar
Arthur: King of the Britons
as Presenter
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
as Self
Exterior Day
Return of the Islander
as Narrator (voice)