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Richard Harris
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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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Gladiator
As Marcus Aurelius
Unforgiven
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
As Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
As Albus Dumbledore
Patriot Games
As Paddy O'Neil
The Guns of Navarone
As Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
The Wild Geese
As Capt. Rafer Janders
Major Dundee
As Captain Benjamin Tyreen
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Ghosts in the Machine
From a stuntman's final role to a star's digital encore, these eight films trace cinema's long affair with performing from beyond the grave.
8 films
The Long Goodbye: Twilight of Heroes and Outlaws
There is a moment in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian (1976) that cuts deeper than any broadsword. Sean Connery, sporting grey in his beard and exhaustion in h...
8 films
The DVDs That Changed Everything
In the late 1990s, home video underwent a seismic shift driven by a double revolution: an unprecedented jump in technical quality, and an unprecedented access t...
10 films
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · Albus Dumbledore
Gladiator
2000 · Marcus Aurelius
Abraham
1993 · Abraham
Unforgiven
1992 · English Bob
Patriot Games
1992 · Paddy O'Neil
The Wild Geese
1978 · Capt. Rafer Janders
Robin and Marian
1976 · Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
Major Dundee
1965 · Captain Benjamin Tyreen
The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959 · Higgins