Richard Harris
Actor, Film actor
1930 – 2002
Who was Richard Harris?
Richard St John Harris was an Irish actor, singer, theatrical producer, film director and writer. He appeared on stage and in many films, and is perhaps best known for his role as Frank Machin in This Sporting Life. He is also known for playing King Arthur in the 1967 film Camelot and the subsequent 1981 revival of the show. He played an aristocrat and prisoner in A Man Called Horse, a gunfighter in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven, Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator, and Albus Dumbledore in both Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Harris had a top ten hit in the UK and the US with his 1968 recording of Jimmy Webb's song "MacArthur Park".
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- Born
- Oct 1, 1930
Limerick - Also known as
- Richard St John Harris
- Richard St. John Harris
- Richard Kharris
- Harris
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Elizabeth Rees-Williams
(1957/02/09 - 1969) - Ann Turkel
(1974/06/07 - 1982)
- Elizabeth Rees-Williams
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Irish people
- Nationality
- Republic of Ireland
- Profession
- Education
- London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- Crescent College
- Lived in
- County Limerick
- Died
- Oct 25, 2002
University College Hospital
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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