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Richard Harris
Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
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 Michelangel…
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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.
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2022
Exterior Day
Movie
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2005
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Movie Self
- 2005
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2004
The Apocalypse
Movie John
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2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Movie Self
- 2003
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2002
Julius Caesar
TV show Lucius Silla
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2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Movie Albus Dumbledore
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2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Movie Self
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2002
Arthur: King of the Britons
Movie Presenter
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2002
The Count of Monte Cristo
Movie Abbé Faria
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2001
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Movie Self
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2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Movie Albus Dumbledore
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2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV show Self
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2001
My Kingdom
Movie Sandeman
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2001
The Pearl
Movie Dr. Karl
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2000
Bette
TV show
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2000
Hellraisers
Movie Self
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2000
Gladiator
Movie Marcus Aurelius
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1999
Grizzly Falls
Movie Old Harry
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1999
To Walk with Lions
Movie George Adamson
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1998
The Barber of Siberia
Movie Douglas McCraken
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1998
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
This Is the Sea
Movie Old Man Jacobs
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1997
The Hunchback
Movie Dom Frollo
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1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Movie Dr. Andreas Tork
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1996
Trojan Eddie
Movie John Power
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1995
Cry, the Beloved Country
Movie James Jarvis
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1995
The Great Kandinsky
Movie Ernest Kandinsky
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1995
Savage Hearts
Movie Sir Roger Foxley
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1994
Silent Tongue
Movie Prescott Roe
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1993
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Movie Frank
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1993
Abraham
Movie Abraham
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1993
Abraham
TV show Abraham
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1993
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
TV show Self
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1992
Unforgiven
Movie English Bob
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1992
Patriot Games
Movie Paddy O'Neil
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1990
The Field
Movie 'Bull' McCabe
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1990
King of the Wind
Movie King George II
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1989
Mack the Knife
Movie Mr. Peachum
