People
George Harrison
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Biography
George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's break-up, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the acclaimed and successful triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which came two singles: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, another former Beatle, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised a major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. Besides being a musician, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna. He was married twice, to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1974, and for 23 years to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. He is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Time Bandits
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Long Good Friday
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Mona Lisa
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Withnail & I
Appears in a KinoChain journey
20th Century Greats
As Self (archive footage)
Life of Brian
As Mr. Papadopolous (uncredited)
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
Actor
Yellow Submarine
As George (uncredited)
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Anarchy in the UK
From Ealing's sly subversions to Python's surreal dismantling of authority, a journey through the films that taught Britain to laugh at itself.
7 films
Rewinding the Reel: How VHS Championed British Independents
From Thatcher's Britain to the video shop era, discover how VHS gave gritty, daring British films a second life and a devoted audience.
9 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
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Collaborators & neighbours
Acted
Evolver 62
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Beatles '64
2024 · Self (archive footage)
The Beach Boys
2024 · Self (archive footage)
An Accidental Studio
2019 · Self (archive footage)
George Harrison - All Things Pass
2018 · Self (archive footage)
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017 · Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016 · Self (Archive Footage)
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008
20th Century Greats
2004 · Self (archive footage)
The Prince's Trust Rock Gala
1990 · Self (archive footage)
The Compleat Beatles
1982 · Self (archive footage)
Life of Brian
1979 · Mr. Papadopolous (uncredited)
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
1978 · The Interviewer (Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer)
Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel
1978 · Self
Yellow Submarine
1968 · George (uncredited)
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Self (archive footage)
Help!
1965 · George
