Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/1/1930
Place of Birth
Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Also Known As
Richard St. John Harrisریچارد هریس
Richard Harris
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
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Albus Dumbledore
Gladiator
as Marcus Aurelius
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Abbé Faria
Abraham
as Abraham
Unforgiven
as English Bob
Orca
as Captain Nolan
The Pearl
as Dr. Karl
Patriot Games
as Paddy O'Neil
Strike Commando 2
as Major Vic Jenkins
Camelot
as King Arthur
Bloomfield
as Eitan
The Field
as 'Bull' McCabe
Caprice
as Christopher White
Camelot
as King Arthur
The Guns of Navarone
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
Major Dundee
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
Cromwell
as Oliver Cromwell
Silent Tongue
as Prescott Roe
Hawaii
as Rafer Hoxworth