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.
Unforgiven
(English Bob)
Gladiator
(Marcus Aurelius)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
(Albus Dumbledore)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(Albus Dumbledore)
Bloomfield
(Eitan)
The Bible: In the Beginning...
(Cain)
Abraham
(Abraham)
The Guns of Navarone
(Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF)
Robin and Marian
(Richard the Lionheart / King Richard)
Mutiny on the Bounty
(Seaman John Mills)
The Count of Monte Cristo
(Abbé Faria)
The Wild Geese
(Capt. Rafer Janders)
The Field
('Bull' McCabe)
Cromwell
(Oliver Cromwell)
The Cassandra Crossing
(Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain)
Tarzan the Ape Man
(James Porter)
Red Desert
(Corrado Zeller)
Orca
(Captain Nolan)
Patriot Games
(Paddy O'Neil)
Julius Caesar
(Lucius Cornelius Sulla)
Cry, the Beloved Country
(James Jarvis)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
(Frank)
The Return of a Man Called Horse
(John Morgan / Horse)
Major Dundee
(Captain Benjamin Tyreen)
Juggernaut
(Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon)
The Molly Maguires
(James McKenna)
A Man Called Horse
(John Morgan)
Hawaii
(Rafer Hoxworth)
Caprice
(Christopher White)
The Heroes of Telemark
(Knut Straud)
Gulliver's Travels
(Gulliver)
This Is the Sea
(Old Man Jacobs)
Man in the Wilderness
(Zachary Bass)
Golden Rendezvous
(John Carter)
The Long and the Short and the Tall
(Cpl. Johnstone)
This Sporting Life
(Frank Machin)
My Kingdom
(Sandeman)
Camelot
(King Arthur)
Mack the Knife
(Mr. Peachum)
Grizzly Falls
(Old Harry)
The Barber of Siberia
(Douglas McCraken)
99 and 44/100% Dead
(Harry Crown)
The Three Faces
(Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri"))
The Apocalypse
(John)
Echoes of a Summer
(Eugene)
Hellraisers
(Self)
Strike Commando 2
(Major Vic Jenkins)
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
(John Morgan - Man Called Horse)
Trojan Eddie
(John Power)
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
(Jason)
Silent Tongue
(Prescott Roe)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
(Higgins)
To Walk with Lions
(George Adamson)
The Hunchback
(Dom Frollo)
The Deadly Trackers
(Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick)
A Terrible Beauty
(Sean Reilly)
King of the Wind
(King George II)
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
(Self)
Martin's Day
(Martin Steckert)
The Great Kandinsky
(Ernest Kandinsky)
Game for Vultures
(David Swansey)
Kaena: The Prophecy
(Opaz (english voice))
Return of the Islander
(Narrator (voice))
The Snow Goose
(Philip Rhayadar)
The Ghost of Richard Harris
(Self (archive footage))
Smilla's Sense of Snow
(Dr. Andreas Tork)
Camelot
(King Arthur)
Shake Hands with the Devil
(Terence O'Brien)
Highpoint
(Lewis Kinney)
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
(Self (archive footage))
Ravagers
(Falk)
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
(Self)
Savage Hearts
(Sir Roger Foxley)
Arthur: King of the Britons
(Presenter)
Maigret
(Jules Maigret)
Alive and Kicking
(Lover)
The Last Word
(Danny Travis)
The Pearl
(Dr. Karl)
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese
(Self)
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
(Self)
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
(Self)
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
(Self)
Exterior Day
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
(Self)
Bette
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Philip Rhayadar)
The Hollywood Palace
(Self - Singer)
The Oscars
(Self)
Russell Harty
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(Self - Singer)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(Self)
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
(Self)
Flick Flack
Julius Cäsar
(Sulla)
Julius Caesar
(Lucius Cornelius Silla)
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self - Co-Host)
Honest Trailers
(Albus Dumbledore (archive footage))
Cinépanorama
(Self)
The Dick Cavett Show
(Self - Guest)
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self)
Dinah!
(Self)
Abraham
(Abraham)