Personal Info
Richard St. John Harris
Richard Harris
Acting
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 seco…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Exterior Day
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
as Self
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
as Self
The Apocalypse
as John
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Albus Dumbledore
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Abbé Faria
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Self
Arthur: King of the Britons
as Presenter
TV Shows
Julius Caesar
as Lucius Silla · 2 ep.
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self · 1 ep.
Bette
1 ep.
Abraham
as Abraham · 2 ep.
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self · 1 ep.
Russell Harty
1 ep.
Dinah!
as Self · 1 ep.
Flick Flack
1 ep.
Film '72
as Self · 1 ep.
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest · 2 ep.
