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Richard Harris

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Also known as Richard St John Harris, Richard John Harris, Richard St John Francis Harris

Irish actor, singer, film director and writer (1930–2002)

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Richard Harris (1930–2002) was an Irish film director, singer, film producer, and rugby union player. Born in Limerick, he was educated at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and began his work period in 1956. His notable works include *Camelot*, *A Man Called Horse*, *The Field*, and the *Harry Potter* film series. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.

Harris was married to Ann Turkel and had three children: Jared Harris, Damian Harris, and Jamie Harris. He resided in County Limerick, London, and the Savoy Hotel. He died of Hodgkin lymphoma at University College Hospital.

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Person · Open Library

Works
238

Top works

  • The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins, Baron Brampton; Volume 1
  • Pruning landscape trees
  • The complaint of a sanctified sinner answered, or, An explanation of the seuenth chapter of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans
  • Changing Suburbs
  • The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins

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Film & TV

Acting · Limerick City, Munster, Ireland

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…

Known for

  • Exterior Day2022
  • Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' — Self2005
  • Strength and Honor: Production Pods — Self2005
  • The Apocalypse — John2004
  • The Magic Touch of Harry Potter — Self2004
  • The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway2003
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — Albus Dumbledore2002
  • The Count of Monte Cristo — Abbé Faria2002
  • Arthur: King of the Britons — Presenter2002
  • Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' — Self2002

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1947-04-02
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Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
57,762
Total plays
361,868

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Richard St. John Harris (October 1, 1930 – October 25, 2002) was an Irish actor, singer and songwriter. He appeared in Camelot (1967), A Man Called Horse (1970) and, at the end of his career, the first two Harry Potter movies. He was a notorious playboy and drinker, part of a rowdy generation of talented Irish and British actors that included Albert Finney, Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole. As a singer, Harris is best remembered for his recording of Jimmy Webb's song "MacArthur Park" <a href="ht

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

    · 1977 · cited 63,432x

  2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    · 2009 · cited 59,281x

  3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

    · 2009 · cited 47,681x

  4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

    · 2009 · cited 47,337x

  5. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

    · 2009 · cited 46,854x

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Music

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Encyclopedic overview

Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave. He received numerous accolades including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe. In 2020 he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Harris received two Academy Award for Best Actor nominations for his performances in This Sporting Life (1963), and The Field (1990). Other notable roles include in The Guns of Navarone (1961), Red Desert (1964), A Man Called Horse (1970), Cromwell (1970), Unforgiven (1992), Gladiator (2000), and The Count of Monte Cristo (2002). He gained cross-generational acclaim for his role as 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.

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