Richard Harris
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.
Acting
Movie
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Albus Dumbledore
2001
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Albus Dumbledore
2002
Movie
Gladiator
as Marcus Aurelius
2000
Movie
Unforgiven
as English Bob
1992
Movie
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Abbé Faria
2002
Movie
Patriot Games
as Paddy O'Neil
1992
Movie
The Guns of Navarone
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
1961
Movie
Red Desert
as Corrado Zeller
1964
Movie
Orca
as Captain Nolan
1977
Movie
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Seaman John Mills
1962
Movie
The Bible: In the Beginning...
as Cain
1966
Movie
The Wild Geese
as Capt. Rafer Janders
1978
Movie
Robin and Marian
as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
1976
Movie
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Dr. Andreas Tork
1997
Movie
The Cassandra Crossing
as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
1976
Movie
A Man Called Horse
as John Morgan
1970
Movie
The Heroes of Telemark
as Knut Straud
1965
Movie
Major Dundee
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
1965
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The Barber of Siberia
as Douglas McCraken
1998
Movie
Juggernaut
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
1974
Movie
This Sporting Life
as Frank Machin
1963
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Tarzan the Ape Man
as James Porter
1981
Movie
The Field
as 'Bull' McCabe
1990
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Man in the Wilderness
as Zachary Bass
1971
