Richard Harris

Acting

Born: 1930-10-01
Died: 2002-10-25
From: Limerick City, Munster, Ireland
Gender: Male
Height: 1.85 m
Popularity: 2.6

Also Known As

Richard St. John 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 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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Awards & Nominations7 won · 12 nominated

🏆 Won

British Independent Film Award – The Richard Harris Award

2002
Nominated

British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film

My Kingdom

2002
Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Gladiator

2001
🏆 Won

European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

2000
Nominated

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor

1991
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actor

The Field

1991
Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama

The Field

1990
Nominated

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor

Tarzan, the Ape Man

1982
Nominated

Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy

1979
🏆 Won

Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1973
Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1973
Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

1968
Nominated

Grammy Award for Album of the Year

A Tramp Shining

1968
🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Camelot

1967
Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Camelot

1967
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actor

This Sporting Life

1964
🏆 Won

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor

This Sporting Life

1963
🏆 Won

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Awards

Acting96 titles

Directing1 title

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