Richard Harris

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-10-01 (72 years old)

Deathday

2002-10-25

Place of Birth

Limerick City, Munster, Ireland

Richard 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), Engli...

Acting

1992

Unforgiven

as English Bob

2000

Gladiator

as Marcus Aurelius

1970

Bloomfield

as Eitan

1993

Abraham

as Abraham

1961

The Guns of Navarone

as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF

1976

Robin and Marian

as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard

1962

Mutiny on the Bounty

as Seaman John Mills

2002

1978

The Wild Geese

as Capt. Rafer Janders

1990

The Field

as 'Bull' McCabe

1970

Cromwell

as Oliver Cromwell

1976

The Cassandra Crossing

as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain

1981

Tarzan the Ape Man

as James Porter

1964

Red Desert

as Corrado Zeller

1977

Orca

as Captain Nolan

1992

Patriot Games

as Paddy O'Neil

1995

1976

The Return of a Man Called Horse

as John Morgan / Horse

1965

Major Dundee

as Captain Benjamin Tyreen

1974

Juggernaut

as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon

1970

The Molly Maguires

as James McKenna

1970

A Man Called Horse

as John Morgan

1966

Hawaii

as Rafer Hoxworth

1967

Caprice

as Christopher White

1965

1977

1997

This Is the Sea

as Old Man Jacobs

1971

Man in the Wilderness

as Zachary Bass

1977

Golden Rendezvous

as John Carter

1963

This Sporting Life

as Frank Machin

2001

My Kingdom

as Sandeman

1967

Camelot

as King Arthur

1989

Mack the Knife

as Mr. Peachum

1999

Grizzly Falls

as Old Harry

1998

The Barber of Siberia

as Douglas McCraken

1974

99 and 44/100% Dead

as Harry Crown

1965

The Three Faces

as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")

2004

1976

2000

1988

Strike Commando 2

as Major Vic Jenkins

1983

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

as John Morgan - Man Called Horse

1996

Trojan Eddie

as John Power

1993

Silent Tongue

as Prescott Roe

1999

To Walk with Lions

as George Adamson

1997

The Hunchback

as Dom Frollo

1973

The Deadly Trackers

as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick

1960

A Terrible Beauty

as Sean Reilly

1990

King of the Wind

as King George II

1985

Martin's Day

as Martin Steckert

1995

The Great Kandinsky

as Ernest Kandinsky

1979

Game for Vultures

as David Swansey

1970

Return of the Islander

as Narrator (voice)

1971

The Snow Goose

as Philip Rhayadar

1997

Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Dr. Andreas Tork

1982

Camelot

as King Arthur

1959

Shake Hands with the Devil

as Terence O'Brien

1982

Highpoint

as Lewis Kinney

1998

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

as Self (archive footage)

1979

Ravagers

as Falk

1995

Savage Hearts

as Sir Roger Foxley

1988

Maigret

as Jules Maigret

1959

1979

The Last Word

as Danny Travis

2001

The Pearl

as Dr. Karl

2002

The Apocalypse

as Apostle John

Production

1970

Bloomfield

as Director

1976

1970

Bloomfield

as Screenplay

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