Richard Harris
Birthday: 1930-10-01
Place of Birth: Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
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), 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.
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Unforgiven
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help suppo...
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Gladiator
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of ...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11t...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of hi...
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Bloomfield
An aging soccer player has a part-time girlfriend, a young fan, and doubts about throwing a game....
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The Bible: In the Beginning...
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicki...
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Abraham
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotam...
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The Guns of Navarone
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held i...
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Robin and Marian
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Maria...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Capta...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...
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The Wild Geese
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a ...
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The Field
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land....
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Cromwell
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New W...
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The Cassandra Crossing
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off t...
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Tarzan the Ape Man
The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins ...
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Red Desert
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic acci...
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Orca
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a v...
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Patriot Games
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big cit...
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in...
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The Return of a Man Called Horse
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for...
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Major Dundee
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Ar...
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Juggernaut
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he ha...
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The Molly Maguires
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath,...
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A Man Called Horse
In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indian...
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Hawaii
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and ...
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Caprice
Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a...
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The Heroes of Telemark
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf P...
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Gulliver's Travels
Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu epi...
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This Is the Sea
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy...
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Man in the Wilderness
In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civ...
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Golden Rendezvous
Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero whe...
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The Long and the Short and the Tall
Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle n...
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This Sporting Life
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a...
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My Kingdom
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over...
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Camelot
The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to S...
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Mack the Knife
In 19th century London, a young girl falls for a womanizing criminal and they decide to wed. Her fam...
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Grizzly Falls
When a young boy is captured by a grizzly bear, he begins the most incredible journey of a lifetime,...
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The Barber of Siberia
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, expe...
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99 and 44/100% Dead
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harr...
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The Three Faces
Italian comedy film made of three segments directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini and F...
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The Apocalypse
While Emperor Domitian persecutes the Christians, the aged apostle John has prophetic visions....
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Echoes of a Summer
A young girl with a terminal heart condition plans to celebrate her 12th birthday on one last summer...
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Hellraisers
Documentary about notorious British and Irish wildmen Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Oliver Reed and...
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Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
Shunka Wakan, formerly Lord John, helps his Dakota son defend their tribe against gold rushers....
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Trojan Eddie
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies,...
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is grad...
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Silent Tongue
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside...
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove t...
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To Walk with Lions
Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. A...
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The Hunchback
Based on Victor Hugo's famed novel, the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame, ...
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The Deadly Trackers
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their pa...
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A Terrible Beauty
In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O...
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King of the Wind
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil a...
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The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey o...
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Martin's Day
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He ...
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The Great Kandinsky
The once-reknowned escape-artist and magician, Kandinsky, is now reduced to confounding the staff an...
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Game for Vultures
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. Th...
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Return of the Islander
Through economic necessity, an Aran Islander is forced to travel to England to work on building site...
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The Snow Goose
Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a...
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apar...
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Camelot
Shot live from the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, this presentation of the 1980 Broadway re...
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Shake Hands with the Devil
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. ...
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Highpoint
James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabblin...
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Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
Jon Stewart hosts the Sesame Street Muppets' 30 year celebration, but Elmo steps in when things go a...
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Ravagers
In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adve...
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Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
"This is a kid who just said it. I'm the greatest - and he said it with poetry. And I don't mean jus...
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Savage Hearts
When a beautiful mob hitwoman learns she only has six months to live, she decides to rob her employe...
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Arthur: King of the Britons
The legend of King Arthur is one of the most evocative stories in British mythology. We think of the...
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Maigret
Jules Maigret, a meticulous Parisian police detective, is a famous literary character. In this film ...
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Alive and Kicking
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escap...
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The Last Word
When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to take ma...
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The Pearl
A poor Mexican diver finds a priceless pearl that will change his impoverished family's future -- if...
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The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all st...
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Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
Promotional short film about the making of the 1978 film The Wild Geese....
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Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
An in-depth look at the entire making of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Consisting of: Tale Of The Scrib...
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Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
A musical special promoting the then-upcoming release of the 1973 musical version of "Lost Horizon"....
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Exterior Day
Inspired by a famous exchange of letters between Michelangelo Antonioni and Mark Rothko, Esterno gio...
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Strength and Honor: Production Pods
Series of documentary pods chronicling every aspect of the production of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. R...
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The Apocalypse
The film is set in 90 AD and concerns Jesus Christ's last surviving disciple, John of Patmos, and hi...
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