About
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...
Known for
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneMovie • 2001
Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsMovie • 2002
GladiatorMovie • 2000
UnforgivenMovie • 1992
Patriot GamesMovie • 1992
The Count of Monte CristoMovie • 2002
The Guns of NavaroneMovie • 1961
OrcaMovie • 1977
The Bible: In the Beginning...Movie • 1966
The Wild GeeseMovie • 1978
The Cassandra CrossingMovie • 1976
The Heroes of TelemarkMovie • 1965
Mutiny on the BountyMovie • 1962
JuggernautMovie • 1974
Robin and MarianMovie • 1976
Red DesertMovie • 1964
The HunchbackMovie • 1997
Major DundeeMovie • 1965
The Molly MaguiresMovie • 1970
Tarzan the Ape ManMovie • 1981
The ApocalypseMovie • 2004
Man in the WildernessMovie • 1971
The Barber of SiberiaMovie • 1998
CamelotMovie • 1967