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| Birth name: Richard St. John Harris |
| Birth date: 01.10.1930 |
A genuine star of cinema on screen and a fiery hell raiser off screen, Richard St John Harris was born on October 1, 1930 in Limerick, Ireland, to a farming family. He was an excellent rugby player and had a strong passion for literature. Unfortunately, a bout of tuberculosis as a teenager ended his aspirations to a rugby career, but he became fascinated with the theater and skipped a local dance one night to attend a performance of "Henry IV". He was hooked and went on to learn his craft at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, then spent several years in stage productions. He debuted on screen in Alive and Kicking (1959) and quickly scored regular work in films, including The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959), A Terrible Beauty (1960) and a good role as a frustrated Australian bomber pilot in The Guns of Navarone (1961).
However, his breakthrough performance was as the quintessential "angry young man" in the sensational drama This Sporting Life (1963), which scored him an Oscar nomination. He then appeared in the WW II commando tale The Heroes of Telemark (1965) and in the Sam Peckinpah-directed western Major Dundee (1965). He next showed up in Hawaii (1966) and played King Arthur in Camelot (1967), a lackluster adaptation of the famous Broadway play. Better performances followed, among them a role as a reluctant police informer in The Molly Maguires (1970) alongside Sir Sean Connery. Harris took the lead role in the violent western A Man Called Horse (1970), which became something of a cult film and spawned two sequels.
As the 1970s progressed, Harris continued to appear regularly on screen; however, the quality of the scripts varied from above average to woeful. His credits during this period included directing himself as an aging soccer player in the delightful Bloomfield (1971); the western The Deadly Trackers (1973); the big-budget "disaster" film Juggernaut (1974); the strangely-titled crime film 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974); with Connery again in Robin and Marian (1976); Gulliver's Travels (1977); a part in the Jaws (1975) ripoff Orca (1977) and a nice turn as an ill-fated mercenary with Richard Burton and Roger Moore in the popular action film The Wild Geese (1978).
The 1980s kicked off with Harris appearing in the silly Bo Derek vanity production Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) and the remainder of the decade had him appearing in some very forgettable productions.
However, the luck of the Irish was once again to shine on Harris' career and he scored rave reviews (and another Oscar nomination) for The Field (1990). He then locked horns with Harrison Ford as an IRA sympathizer in Patriot Games (1992) and got one of his best roles as gunfighter English Bob in the Clint Eastwood western Unforgiven (1992). Harris was firmly back in vogue and rewarded his fans with more wonderful performances in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993); Cry, the Beloved Country (1995); The Great Kandinsky (1995) (TV) and This Is the Sea (1997). Further fortune came his way with a strong performance in the blockbuster Gladiator (2000) and he became known to an entirely new generation of film fans as Albus Dumbledore in the mega-successful Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). His final screen role was as "Lucius Sulla" in Julius Caesar (2002) (TV).
A diverse, vigorous and captivating actor, Richard Harris passed away from Hodgkin's Disease on October 25, 2002. |
Filmography |
# Kaena: La prophétie (2003) (voice: English version) .... Opaz
... aka Kaena: The Prophecy (USA)
# Julius Caesar (2002) (TV) .... Lucius Cornelius Sulla
... aka Caesar (USA)
... aka Giulio Cesare (Italy)
... aka Julius Caesar (Germany)
# San Giovanni - L'apocalisse (2002) (TV) .... John
... aka Bibel: Apokalypse, Die (Germany)
... aka The Apocalypse (USA)
# Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) .... Albus Dumbledore
... aka Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens (Germany)
# The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) .... Abbé Faria
... aka Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (USA: complete title)
# Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) .... Albus Dumbledore
... aka Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Canada: English title) (International: English title) (UK)
... aka Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (USA)
# My Kingdom (2001) .... Sandeman
# "Bette" .... Stage Hand (1 episode, 2001)
- True Story (2001) TV Episode .... Stage Hand
# The Pearl (2001) .... Dr. Karl
# Gladiator (2000) .... Marcus Aurelius
# Grizzly Falls (1999) .... Old Harry
... aka Grizzly Falls (Canada: French title)
# To Walk with Lions (1999) .... George Adamson
... aka Un homme parmi les lions (Canada: French title)
# Sibirskiy tsiryulnik (1998) .... Douglas McCraken
... aka ????????? ????????? (Russia)
... aka Barbier de Sibérie, Le (France)
... aka Barbiere di Siberia, Il (Italy)
... aka The Barber of Siberia (International: English title)
# Upright Affair (1998)
# This Is the Sea (1997) .... Old Man Jacobs
# The Hunchback (1997) (TV) .... Dom Frollo
... aka Quasimodo (Canada: French title)
... aka The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Europe: English title)
# Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) .... Dr. Andreas Tork
... aka Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee (Germany)
... aka Fröken Smillas känsla för snö (Sweden)
... aka Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne (Denmark)
... aka Smilla's Feeling for Snow (UK)
# Savage Hearts (1997) .... Sir Roger Foxley
# Trojan Eddie (1996) .... John Power
# The Great Kandinsky (1995) (TV) .... Ernest Kandinsky
# Cry, the Beloved Country (1995) .... James Jarvis
# Abraham (1994) (TV) .... Abraham
... aka Bibel - Abraham, Die (Germany)
... aka Bible: Abraham, La (France)
... aka The Bible: Abraham
# Silent Tongue (1994) .... Prescott Roe
... aka Gardien des esprits, Le (France)
# Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) .... Frank
# Unforgiven (1992) .... English Bob
# Patriot Games (1992) .... Paddy O'Neil
# The Field (1990) .... 'Bull' McCabe
# Mack the Knife (1990) .... Mr. Peachum
... aka The Threepenny Opera
# King of the Wind (1989) .... King George II
# Trappola diabolica (1988) .... Vic Jenkins
... aka Strike Commando 2 (International: English title)
# Maigret (1988) (TV) .... Jules Maigret
# Martin's Day (1984) .... Martin Steckert
# Highpoint (1982) .... Lewis Kinney
# Camelot (1982) (TV) .... King Arthur
# Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1982) .... John Morgan
... aka Triunfo de un hombre llamado Caballo, El (Spain)
# Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981) .... Jason
... aka A Slow Descent Into Hell
... aka Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable (Canada: French title)
... aka Finishing Touch
... aka Ultime passion, L' (Canada: French title)
# Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) .... James Parker
# The Last Word (1980) .... Danny Travis
... aka Danny Travis
... aka The Number (UK)
# A Game for Vultures (1979) .... David Swansey
# Ravagers (1979) .... Falk
# The Wild Geese (1978) .... Capt. Rafer Janders
# Golden Rendezvous (1977) .... John Carter
... aka Nuclear Terror (USA: TV title)
# Orca (1977) .... Captain Nolan
... aka Orca: Killer Whale
... aka The Killer Whale
# Gulliver's Travels (1977) .... Gulliver
# The Cassandra Crossing (1976) .... Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
... aka Cassandra Crossing (Italy) (West Germany)
... aka Treffpunkt Todesbrücke (West Germany)
# The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) .... Lord John Morgan
# Robin and Marian (1976) .... Richard the Lionheart
# Echoes of a Summer (1976) .... Eugene Striden
... aka The Last Castle
# Juggernaut (1974) .... Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
... aka Terror on the Britannic (USA)
# 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974) .... Harry Crown
... aka Call Harry Crown (UK)
# The Deadly Trackers (1973) .... Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
# "The Dave Cash Radio Show" (1 episode, 1972)
- Episode #1.2 (1972) TV Episode
# Man in the Wilderness (1971) .... Zachary Bass
# The Snow Goose (1971) (TV) .... Philip Rhayadar
# Festival europäischer Schlager (1971) (TV) .... Singer
# "David Nixon's Magic Box" (1 episode, 1971)
- Episode #3.4 (1971) TV Episode
# Bloomfield (1971) .... Eitan
... aka The Hero (USA)
# Cromwell (1970) .... Oliver Cromwell
# A Man Called Horse (1970) .... John Morgan
# The Molly Maguires (1970) .... Detective James McParlan/McKenna
# Camelot (1967) .... King Arthur
# Caprice (1967) .... Christopher White
# Hawaii (1966) .... Rafer Hoxworth
# The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) .... Cain
... aka Bibbia, La (Italy)
... aka The Bible (USA: short title)
# The Heroes of Telemark (1965) .... Knut Straud
... aka Anthony Mann's The Heroes of Telemark (UK: complete title)
# Major Dundee (1965) .... Captain Benjamin Tyreen
# Tre volti, I (1965) .... Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
... aka The Three Faces
... aka Three Faces of a Woman
# Deserto rosso, Il (1964) .... Corrado Zeller
... aka Désert rouge, Le (France)
... aka The Red Desert (UK)
# This Sporting Life (1963) .... Frank Machin
# Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) .... Seaman John Mills
# The Guns of Navarone (1961) .... Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
# The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) .... Cpl. Johnstone
... aka Jungle Fighters (USA)
... aka The Long, the Short and the Tall (International: English title)
# A Terrible Beauty (1960) .... Sean Reilly
... aka The Night Fighters (USA)
# "Armchair Theatre" (1 episode, 1960)
- Come in Razor Red (1960) TV Episode
# The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) .... Higgins
# Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) .... Terence O'Brien
# Alive and Kicking (1959) .... Lover
# The Iron Harp (1958) (TV) .... Michael O'Riordan |
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