Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
84
Gender
Male
Birthday
October 01, 1930 ( 72 years old )
Place of Birth
Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Also Known As
Richard St. John Harris
Richard Harris
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.
Known For
Unforgiven
1992-08-07Gladiator
2000-05-04Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001-11-16Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002-11-13Bloomfield
1970-12-01The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966-09-28Abraham
1993-12-12The Guns of Navarone
1961-04-27Robin and Marian
1976-03-11Mutiny on the Bounty
1962-11-08