Acting · Limerick City, Munster, Ireland · Born October 1, 1930
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.
MovieExterior Day
2022
MovieStrength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
as Self
MovieStrength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
as Self
MovieThe Apocalypse
2004
as John
MovieThe Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
as Self
MovieThe Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
TVJulius Caesar
2002
as Lucius Silla
MovieHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Albus Dumbledore
MovieEastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
as Self
MovieArthur: King of the Britons
2002
as Presenter
MovieThe Count of Monte Cristo
2002
as Abbé Faria
MovieMuhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001
as Self
MovieHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Albus Dumbledore
TVFriday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self
MovieMy Kingdom
2001
as Sandeman
MovieThe Pearl
2001
as Dr. Karl
TVBette
2000
MovieHellraisers
2000
as Self
MovieGladiator
2000
as Marcus Aurelius
MovieGrizzly Falls
1999
as Old Harry
MovieTo Walk with Lions
1999
as George Adamson
MovieThe Barber of Siberia
1998
as Douglas McCraken
MovieSesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThis Is the Sea
1997
as Old Man Jacobs
MovieThe Hunchback
1997
as Dom Frollo
MovieSmilla's Sense of Snow
1997
as Dr. Andreas Tork
MovieTrojan Eddie
1996
as John Power
MovieCry, the Beloved Country
1995
as James Jarvis
The Great Kandinsky
1995
as Ernest Kandinsky
MovieSavage Hearts
1995
as Sir Roger Foxley
TVAbraham
1994
as Abraham
MovieSilent Tongue
1994
as Prescott Roe
MovieWrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
as Frank
MovieAbraham
1993
as Abraham
TVHollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
as Self
MovieUnforgiven
1992
as English Bob
MoviePatriot Games
1992
as Paddy O'Neil
MovieThe Field
1990
as 'Bull' McCabe
MovieKing of the Wind
1990
as King George II
MovieMack the Knife
1989
as Mr. Peachum
MovieStrike Commando 2
1988
as Major Vic Jenkins
MovieNelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988
as Self
MovieMaigret
1988
as Jules Maigret
MovieMartin's Day
1985
as Martin Steckert
MovieTriumphs of a Man Called Horse
1983
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
MovieCamelot
1982
as King Arthur
MovieHighpoint
1982
as Lewis Kinney
MovieYour Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981
as Jason
MovieTarzan the Ape Man
1981
as James Porter
Russell Harty
1980
MovieThe Last Word
1979
as Danny Travis
MovieRavagers
1979
as Falk
MovieGame for Vultures
1979
as David Swansey
MovieThe Wild Geese
1978
as Capt. Rafer Janders
MovieStars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978
as Self
MovieGolden Rendezvous
1977
as John Carter
MovieOrca
1977
as Captain Nolan
MovieGulliver's Travels
1977
as Gulliver
MovieThe Cassandra Crossing
1976
as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
MovieThe Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
as John Morgan / Horse
MovieRobin and Marian
1976
as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
MovieEchoes of a Summer
1976
as Eugene
TVDinah!
1974
as Self
MovieJuggernaut
1974
as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
Movie99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
as Harry Crown
TVFlick Flack
1974
MovieThe Deadly Trackers
1973
as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
MovieBurt Bacharach in Shangri-La
1973
as Self
MovieMan in the Wilderness
1971
as Zachary Bass
Film '72
1971
as Self
MovieThe Snow Goose
1971
as Philip Rhayadar
MovieBloomfield
1970
as Eitan
MovieCromwell
1970
as Oliver Cromwell
MovieA Man Called Horse
1970
as John Morgan
MovieThe Molly Maguires
1970
as James McKenna
Return of the Islander
1970
as Narrator (voice)
TVThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
MovieCamelot
1967
as King Arthur
MovieCaprice
1967
as Christopher White
MovieHawaii
1966
as Rafer Hoxworth
MovieThe Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
as Cain
MovieThe Heroes of Telemark
1965
as Knut Straud
MovieMajor Dundee
1965
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
MovieThe Three Faces
1965
as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
MovieRed Desert
1964
as Corrado Zeller
TVThe Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self - Singer
MovieThis Sporting Life
1963
as Frank Machin
MovieMutiny on the Bounty
1962
as Seaman John Mills
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host
MovieThe Guns of Navarone
1961
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
MovieThe Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
as Cpl. Johnstone
MovieA Terrible Beauty
1960
as Sean Reilly
MovieThe Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959
as Higgins
MovieAlive and Kicking
1959
as Lover
MovieShake Hands with the Devil
1959
as Terence O'Brien
TVCinépanorama
1956
as Self
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Philip Rhayadar
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
