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The Count of Monte Cristo

as Abbé Faria

2002
Julius Caesar

as Lucius Cornelius Sulla

2002
My Kingdom

as Sandeman

2001
Gladiator

as Marcus Aurelius

2000
The Apocalypse

as John

2004
To Walk with Lions

as George Adamson

1999
The Barber of Siberia

as Douglas McCraken

1998
Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Dr. Andreas Tork

1997
The Hunchback

as Dom Frollo

1997
Trojan Eddie

as John Power

1996
Abraham

as Abraham

1993
Silent Tongue

as Prescott Roe

1993
Unforgiven

as English Bob

1992
Patriot Games

as Paddy O'Neil

1992
The Field

as 'Bull' McCabe

1990
King of the Wind

as King George II

1990
Mack the Knife

as Mr. Peachum

1989
Strike Commando 2

as Major Vic Jenkins

1988
Highpoint

as Lewis Kinney

1984
Tarzan the Ape Man

as James Porter

1981
Ravagers

as Falk

1979
The Last Word

as Danny Travis

1979
The Wild Geese

as Capt. Rafer Janders

1978
Orca

as Captain Nolan

1977
Richard Harris Richard Harris

Birthday

1930-10-01

Place of Birth

Limerick City, Munster, Ireland

Biography

Richard St. John Harris was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer. He appeared on stage and in many films, and is perhaps best known for his roles as King Arthur in Camelot (1967), as Oliver Cromwell in Cromwell (1970) and as Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), his last film. He also played a British aristocrat and prisoner in A Man Called Horse (1970) and a gunfighter in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992). As a singer, Harris is probably best remembered for his recording of Jimmy Webb's song "MacArthur Park", which reached the top ten in sales on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in 1968. Harris, the fifth of nine children, was born in Limerick City, County Limerick, Munster, Ireland, the son of Ivan John Harris and Mildred Josephine Harty Harris. In 1957, he married Elizabeth Rees-Williams, the daughter of David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore. Their three children are the actor Jared Harris, the actor Jamie Harris, and the director Damian Harris. Harris and Rees-Willams divorced in 1969, and then Elizabeth married another well-known actor, Sir Rex Harrison. Harris' second marriage was to the American actress Ann Turkel, who was 16 years younger than he, and this marriage also ended in a divorce. Despite his divorces, Harris was a member of the Roman Catholic Knights of Malta, and was also dubbed a knight by the Queen of Denmark in 1985. Harris was a life long friend of actor Peter O'Toole. Harris died of Hodgkin's disease on 25 October 2002, aged 72, two and a half weeks before the American premiere of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. He was replaced as Dumbledore by the Irish-born actor Sir Michael Gambon. For years, whenever he was in London, Harris resided at the Savoy Hotel. According to the hotel archivist Susan Scott, as Harris was being taken from the hotel on a stretcher, shortly before his death, he warned the diners, "It was the food!" Harris's remains were cremated, and his ashes were scattered in The Bahamas Islands, where he had owned a home.
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