George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles.  Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle",  Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's break-up, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards.  His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the acclaimed and successful triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which came two singles: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, another former Beatle, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised a major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. Besides being a musician, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna. He was married twice, to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1974, and for 23 years to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. He is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.

Filmography

• 2025The Beatles — Self (archive footage), Musician
• 2024Beatles '64 — Self (archive footage), Songs
• 2024La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
• 2024The Beatles LOVE — Music
• 2023By My Side — Music
• Sherwood — Nikko
• 2022The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert — Self (archive footage), Songs
• The Beatles: Get Back — Self (archive footage), Songs
• 2019Yesterday — Songs
• 2017The Summer of Love
• 2016The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years — Self (Archive Footage), Songs
• 2014When the Beatles Drove Us Wild — archival footage
• 2013Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed — (Archive footage)
• 2011George Harrison: Living in the Material World
• George Harrison: Living in the Material World — Self (archive footage), Music
• 2010Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies — archive footage
• 2009Project 9: The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band — Self (archive footage), Thanks
• 2008George Harrison: In Performance
• The 60s: The Beatles Decade
• 2007Across the Universe — Songs
• 2005Meet the Beatles — Self (Archival footage), Songs
• 2005The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2 — Self - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
• 2003Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles — Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer (archive footage)
• 2001Ram Dass: Fierce Grace — Additional Music
• 1999Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special — (archive footage)
• 1998Everest — Music
• 1992George Harrison: Live at The Royal Albert Hall
• 1992Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
• 1991George Harrison: Live in Japan
• 1990Cold Dog Soup — Executive Producer
• 1990Nuns on the Run — Producer
• 1989How to Get Ahead in Advertising — Executive Producer
• 1989Powwow Highway — Executive Producer
• The Simpsons — George Harrison (voice)
• 1988Checking Out — Cleaner, Executive Producer
• 1988The Raggedy Rawney — Executive Producer
• 1988Track 29 — Executive Producer
• 1987Bellman and True — Executive Producer
• 1987Five Corners — Executive Producer
• 1987The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne — Producer
• 1987Withnail & I — Executive Producer
• 1986Mona Lisa — Executive Producer
• 1986Shanghai Surprise — Nightclub Singer, Original Music Composer, Executive Producer, Songs, Theme Song Performance
• 1985Water — Himself - The Singing Rebels' Band, Executive Producer
• 1984A Private Function — Executive Producer
• 1983Bullshot — Executive Producer
• 1983Privates on Parade — Executive Producer
• 1982Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl — Executive Producer
• 1982Scrubbers — Executive Producer
• 1982The Missionary — Executive Producer
• 1981Beatlemania — Songs
• 1981Time Bandits — Theme Song Performance, Executive Producer, Additional Music
• 1980The Long Good Friday — Executive Producer
• 1979Life of Brian — Mr. Papadopolous (uncredited), Executive Producer
• 1978Ringo — George Harrison
• 1978The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash — The Interviewer (Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer)
• 1976All This and World War II — Songs
• 1974George Harrison: Live in North America 1974
• 1974Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs — Executive Producer
• 1972The Concert for Bangladesh — Self, Producer
• 1970Let It Be — Self - The Beatles (uncredited), Songs, Executive Producer
• 1969The Beatles: Abbey Road — Self - Guitar, Vocals
• 1969The Beatles: Something — Self, Music
• 1969Wonderwall — Original Music Composer
• 1968Revolution — Songs
• 1968Yellow Submarine — George (uncredited), Songs
• 1967Magical Mystery Tour — Self / Magician Looking Through Telescope, Producer, Original Music Composer, Songs, Writer, Director
• 1966The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966) — Self - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
• 1965Help! — George, Songs
• 1964A Hard Day's Night — George
• Inside the Beatles: 1962-1970

Appearances as themselves (244)

• 2026Evolver 62 — Self (archive footage)
• 2026Man on the Run — Self (archive footage)
• 2025A Love Letter to the Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• David Frost Vs — self (archive footage)
• 2025TWST / Things We Said Today — Self (archive footage)
• 2025The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn — Self
• 2025The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere — Self (archive footage)
• 2025The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution — Self
• 2024Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands — Self (archive footage)
• 2024No Hamburg, No Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• 2024The Bannfoot Ferry — Self (archive footage)
• 2024The Beach Boys — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Louder Than Rock — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Roy Orbison at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan — Self (archive footage)
• 2023The Beatles and the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 2023The Lost Weekend: A Love Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles — Self
• 2022How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s? — Self (archive footage)
• 2022If These Walls Could Sing — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Ringo Starr: One of Them — Self (archive footage)
• 2022The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction — Self
• 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres — Self (archival footage)
• McCartney 3, 2, 1 — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The Beatles and India — Self (archive footage)
• This Is Pop — Self (archive footage)
• History 101 — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Meeting the Beatles in India — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band — Self (archive footage)
• 2020The Shadows At Sixty — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2019An Accidental Studio — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1 — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2 — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal — Self (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
• 2019Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle — Self (archive footage)
• 201814 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988 — Self
• Elvis Presley: The Searcher — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars — Self (archive footage)
• 2018George Harrison - All Things Pass — Self (archive footage)
• 2018John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky — Self (archive footage)
• 2018ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Take Your Pills — Self (archive footage)
• 2018The Beatles ‎– Ready Steady Go! — Self
• 2018Understanding Lennon/McCartney — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions — Self - Musician (archive footage)
• 2017Free to Rock — Self - The Beatles (archive footage)
• 2017Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All — Self (archive footage)
• 2017How the Beatles Changed the World — Self (archive footage)
• 2017It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond — Self (archive footage)
• 2017My Generation — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Superswede: A film about Ronnie Peterson — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Året var 1967 — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Beatles chronology (1962-1970) — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album — Self (archive footage)
• 2016George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape — Self (archive footage)
• In Their Own Words — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The Beatles 1 — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The Beatles 1+ — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Awake: The Life of Yogananda — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Beatles på Sverigeturné — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Live In Denmark 1969 — Self
• 2014George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75 — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Badfinger - They Sold A Million — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2013Good Ol' Freda — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Året var 1963 — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Becoming the Beatles — Self
• 2012Genius — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Magical Mystery Tour Revisited — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Palme — Self (archive footage)
• 2012The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966 — Self
• 2012The Beatles: Their Golden Age — Self
• 2012The Winged Beetle — Self
• 2011Beatles Stories — Self (archive footage)
• 2011I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1 — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2 — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3 — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4 — Self (archive footage)
• 2010John Lennon: Love Is All You Need — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India — Self
• 2010The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• 2010The Beatles: A Magical History Tour — Self (archive footage)
• 2010The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years — Self (archive footage)
• 2010The Beatles: The Complete Story — Self (Archive Footage)
• Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) — Self (archive footage)
• 2009The Beatles on Record — Self
• 2009The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere — Self (archive footage)
• 2009The Beatles: Parting Ways — Self
• 2009The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries — Self
• 2008Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970 — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965 — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2008Rare and Unseen: The Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Blue Album 1967 - 1970 — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Red Album 1962 - 1966 — Self (archive footage)
• 2008The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories — Self (archive footage)
• 2008The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland — self
• 2008The Beatles: Up Close and Personal — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Rock Milestones: The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour — Self (archive footage)
• 2007THE BEATLES in HELP! — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Beatles Explosion — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Beatles In America — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Beatles Phenomenon — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Beatles: Destination Hamburg — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys — Self
• 2007Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Doctor Who: Origins — Self (archive footage)
• 2006The Beatles: Love — Self
• 2006To John With Love — Self
• 2005George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited — Self
• 2005Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits — Self (archive)
• 2005The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent — Self (archive footage)
• 2005The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary — Self (archive footage)
• 20th Century Greats — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Beatles Biggest Secrets — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle — Self (archive footage)
• 2004George Harrison: All things must pass — Self (archive footage)
• 2004George Harrison: The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992 — Self (archive footage)
• 2004The Beatles: Watching Rainbows — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Beatles: The Journey — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Concert for George — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood — Self
• 2003Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Hagström: Allt i musik — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized — Self (archive footage)
• 2003The Beatles - Trilogy — Self
• 2003The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road — Self (archive footage)
• 2003The Beatles: Around the World — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Elvis: King of Entertainment — Self (archive footage)
• 2002George Harrison - The Quiet one — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Naqoyqatsi — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2002Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Things They Said Today — Self (archive footage)
• 2001Beatles: Big Beat Box — Self (archive footage)
• 2001Wingspan — Self (archive footage)
• 2000Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album — Self
• 1999Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales — Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1999In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story — Self
• 1999Television: The First Fifty Years — Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
• 1999The Beatles: A Celebration — Self (archive footage)
• Classic Albums — Self
• 1996Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary — Self (archive footage)
• 1996The Beatles Story — Self (archive footage)
• 1996The Beatles Unauthorized — Self (archive footage)
• The Beatles Anthology — Self
• 1995You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' — Self
• 1994The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary — Self (archive footage)
• 1994Tom Petty: Going Home — Self
• 1993Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration — Self
• 1993Curves Contours & Body Horns — Self
• 1993Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live — Self
• 1992Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show' — Self (archive footage)
• 1992The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper — Self
• 1991My Sweet Lord in the Far East — Self
• 1991The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit — Self (archive footage)
• 1990The Prince's Trust Rock Gala — Self (archive footage)
• 1989The Movie Life of George — Self
• 1988Imagine: John Lennon — Self (archive footage)
• 1987It Was Twenty Years Ago Today — Self
• 1987Jimi Plays Monterey — Self (archive footage)
• 1987Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 2 — Self
• 1987Taj Mahal and Friends — Self
• 1986Fun with the Fab Four — Self (archive footage)
• 1986Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties — Self
• 1985British Rock: The First Wave — Self (archive footage)
• 1985Carl Perkins & Friends: Blue Suede Shoes - A Rockabilly Session — Self
• 1983James Bond: The First 21 Years — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• 1982Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! — Self (archive footage)
• 1982The Compleat Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• Timewatch — Self (archive footage)
• Wogan — Self
• 1981This Is Elvis — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1978Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel — Self
• 1978I Wanna Hold Your Hand — Self (archive footage)
• 1977Mighty Good: The Beatles — Self
• 1977The Beatles at Shea Stadium — Self
• 1977The Day the Music Died — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• 1975Night Lunch — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Musical Guest
• 1974Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• 1974Muhammad Ali, the Greatest — Self
• 1974The Society of the Spectacle — Self (archive footage)
• 1972Imagine — Self
• Disco — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• 1971Raga — Self
• 196924 Hours: The World of John and Yoko — Self (archive footage)
• 1969The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One — Self (archive footage)
• 1969The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three — Self (archive footage)
• 1969The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two — Self (archive footage)
• 1968All My Loving — Self
• 1968Beatles Electroniques — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Frost on Sunday — Self (as The Beatles)
• 1968The Beatles Mod Odyssey — Self
• 1968The Beatles: Revolution — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1968The Movie Orgy — Self (archive footage)
• 1967All You Need Is Love — Self
• 1967Monument — Self (archive footage)
• Omnibus — Self
• 1967Our World — Self
• 1967Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever — Self
• The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour — Self (uncredited)
• 1966El Rey en Londres — Self (archive footage)
• 1966Reflections on Love — Self (archive footage)
• 1966The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966 — Self
• 1966The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966) — Self
• 1966The Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany — Self - The Beatles
• 1965Doctor Who: The Chase — Self (archive footage)
• 1965Pop Gear — Self
• The Beatles — Self (vocals musical segments) (uncredited)
• 1965The Beatles: Live in Paris — Self
• 1965The Music of Lennon & McCartney — Self (archive footage)
• 1964Around the Beatles — Self
• 1964The Beatles Sing for Shell — Self
• 1964The Beatles in Australia — Self
• 1964The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum — Self
• 1964The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands — Self
• Top of the Pops — Self
• 1964What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA — Self - The Beatles Member
• 1964Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York — Self (archive footage)
• Doctor Who — Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1963The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool — Self
• 1963The Beatles Come to Town — Self
• 1963The Mersey Sound — Self
• Morecambe & Wise — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• Building the Beatles — Self (Archive Footage)
• The Beatles - 1967-1970 — Self (archive footage)