Richard Harris

Acting

October 1, 1930 – October 25, 2002 (died at 72)

Limerick City, Munster, Ireland

Male

86 Movies

19 TV Shows

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

2001 7.9

as Albus Dumbledore

Age 71 (now 72)

Gladiator

2000 8.2

as Marcus Aurelius

Age 69 (now 72)

The Count of Monte Cristo

2002 7.7

as Abbé Faria

Age 71 (now 72)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2002 7.7

as Albus Dumbledore

Age 72

Unforgiven

1992 7.9

as English Bob

Age 61 (now 72)

Orca

1977 6.2

as Captain Nolan

Age 46 (now 72)

Red Desert

1964 7.3

as Corrado Zeller

Age 33 (now 72)

A Man Called Horse

1970 6.4

as John Morgan

Age 39 (now 72)

The Wild Geese

1978 6.8

as Capt. Rafer Janders

Age 47 (now 72)

Mutiny on the Bounty

1962 7.1

as Seaman John Mills

Age 32 (now 72)

This Sporting Life

1963 7.0

as Frank Machin

Age 32 (now 72)

The Bible: In the Beginning...

1966 7.3

as Cain

Age 35 (now 72)

The Cassandra Crossing

1976 6.3

as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain

Age 46 (now 72)

Juggernaut

1974 6.2

as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon

Age 43 (now 72)

The Heroes of Telemark

1965 6.9

as Knut Straud

Age 35 (now 72)

The Field

1990 7.0

as 'Bull' McCabe

Age 59 (now 72)

Exterior Day

2022

Age 91 (now 72)

Strength and Honor: Production Pods

2005

as Self

Age 74 (now 72)

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

2005 7.5

as Self

Age 74 (now 72)

The Apocalypse

2004 5.5

as John

Age 74 (now 72)

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

2004 7.7

as Self

Age 73 (now 72)

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

2003

Age 73 (now 72)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2002 7.7

as Albus Dumbledore

Age 72

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

2002 7.4

as Self

Age 71 (now 72)

Arthur: King of the Britons

2002 8.0

as Presenter

Age 71 (now 72)

The Count of Monte Cristo

2002 7.7

as Abbé Faria

Age 71 (now 72)

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

2001 8.0

as Self

Age 71 (now 72)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

2001 7.9

as Albus Dumbledore

Age 71 (now 72)

My Kingdom

2001 5.5

as Sandeman

Age 70 (now 72)

The Pearl

2001 4.8

as Dr. Karl

Age 70 (now 72)

Hellraisers

2000

as Self

Age 69 (now 72)

Gladiator

2000 8.2

as Marcus Aurelius

Age 69 (now 72)

Grizzly Falls

1999 5.9

as Old Harry

Age 69 (now 72)

To Walk with Lions

1999 5.8

as George Adamson

Age 68 (now 72)

The Barber of Siberia

1998 7.1

as Douglas McCraken

Age 68 (now 72)

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

1998 6.5

as Self (archive footage)

Age 67 (now 72)

This Is the Sea

1997 6.0

as Old Man Jacobs

Age 66 (now 72)

The Hunchback

1997 5.9

as Dom Frollo

Age 66 (now 72)

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997 6.3

as Dr. Andreas Tork

Age 66 (now 72)

Trojan Eddie

1996 5.3

as John Power

Age 65 (now 72)

Cry, the Beloved Country

1995 6.8

as James Jarvis

Age 65 (now 72)

The Great Kandinsky

1995 7.5

as Ernest Kandinsky

Age 65 (now 72)

Savage Hearts

1995 4.3

as Sir Roger Foxley

Age 64 (now 72)

Silent Tongue

1994 4.7

as Prescott Roe

Age 63 (now 72)

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

1993 6.3

as Frank

Age 63 (now 72)

Abraham

1993 7.0

as Abraham

Age 63 (now 72)

Unforgiven

1992 7.9

as English Bob

Age 61 (now 72)

Patriot Games

1992 6.7

as Paddy O'Neil

Age 61 (now 72)

The Field

1990 7.0

as 'Bull' McCabe

Age 59 (now 72)

King of the Wind

1990 7.0

as King George II

Age 59 (now 72)

Mack the Knife

1989 6.6

as Mr. Peachum

Age 59 (now 72)

Strike Commando 2

1988 4.7

as Major Vic Jenkins

Age 57 (now 72)

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

1988 6.5

as Self

Age 57 (now 72)

Maigret

1988 7.5

as Jules Maigret

Age 57 (now 72)

Martin's Day

1985 6.4

as Martin Steckert

Age 54 (now 72)

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

1983 5.8

as John Morgan - Man Called Horse

Age 52 (now 72)

Camelot

1982 8.5

as King Arthur

Age 51 (now 72)

Highpoint

1982 5.1

as Lewis Kinney

Age 51 (now 72)

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

1981 5.0

as Jason

Age 50 (now 72)

Tarzan the Ape Man

1981 4.1

as James Porter

Age 50 (now 72)

The Last Word

1979 5.0

as Danny Travis

Age 49 (now 72)

Ravagers

1979 4.5

as Falk

Age 48 (now 72)

Game for Vultures

1979 5.2

as David Swansey

Age 48 (now 72)

The Wild Geese

1978 6.8

as Capt. Rafer Janders

Age 47 (now 72)

Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

1978

as Self

Age 47 (now 72)

Golden Rendezvous

1977 5.5

as John Carter

Age 47 (now 72)

Orca

1977 6.2

as Captain Nolan

Age 46 (now 72)

Gulliver's Travels

1977 5.6

as Gulliver

Age 46 (now 72)

The Cassandra Crossing

1976 6.3

as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain

Age 46 (now 72)

The Return of a Man Called Horse

1976 5.7

as John Morgan / Horse

Age 45 (now 72)

The Return of a Man Called Horse

1976 5.7

Executive Producer

Age 45 (now 72)

Robin and Marian

1976 6.3

as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard

Age 45 (now 72)

Echoes of a Summer

1976 5.4

as Eugene

Age 45 (now 72)

Juggernaut

1974 6.2

as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon

Age 43 (now 72)

99 and 44/100% Dead

1974 5.1

as Harry Crown

Age 43 (now 72)

The Deadly Trackers

1973 5.9

as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick

Age 43 (now 72)

Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

1973 5.7

as Self

Age 42 (now 72)

Man in the Wilderness

1971 6.2

as Zachary Bass

Age 41 (now 72)

The Snow Goose

1971 7.3

as Philip Rhayadar

Age 41 (now 72)

Bloomfield

1970 6.1

Director

Age 40 (now 72)

Bloomfield

1970 6.1

as Eitan

Age 40 (now 72)

Bloomfield

1970 6.1

Screenplay

Age 40 (now 72)

Cromwell

1970 6.6

as Oliver Cromwell

Age 39 (now 72)

A Man Called Horse

1970 6.4

as John Morgan

Age 39 (now 72)

The Molly Maguires

1970 6.3

as James McKenna

Age 39 (now 72)

Return of the Islander

1970 5.3

as Narrator (voice)

Age 39 (now 72)

Camelot

1967 6.2

as King Arthur

Age 37 (now 72)

Caprice

1967 5.9

as Christopher White

Age 36 (now 72)

Hawaii

1966 6.3

as Rafer Hoxworth

Age 36 (now 72)

The Bible: In the Beginning...

1966 7.3

as Cain

Age 35 (now 72)

The Heroes of Telemark

1965 6.9

as Knut Straud

Age 35 (now 72)

Major Dundee

1965 6.7

as Captain Benjamin Tyreen

Age 34 (now 72)

The Three Faces

1965 5.7

as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")

Age 34 (now 72)

Red Desert

1964 7.3

as Corrado Zeller

Age 33 (now 72)

This Sporting Life

1963 7.0

as Frank Machin

Age 32 (now 72)

Mutiny on the Bounty

1962 7.1

as Seaman John Mills

Age 32 (now 72)

The Guns of Navarone

1961 7.3

as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF

Age 30 (now 72)

The Long and the Short and the Tall

1961 6.9

as Cpl. Johnstone

Age 30 (now 72)

A Terrible Beauty

1960 5.4

as Sean Reilly

Age 29 (now 72)

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959 6.3

as Higgins

Age 29 (now 72)

Alive and Kicking

1959 7.1

as Lover

Age 28 (now 72)

Shake Hands with the Devil

1959 6.5

as Terence O'Brien

Age 28 (now 72)