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.

Filmography

• 2022Exterior Day
• 2004The Apocalypse — John
• 2003The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
• 2002Arthur: King of the Britons — Presenter
• 2002Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — Albus Dumbledore
• Julius Caesar — Lucius Silla
• 2002The Count of Monte Cristo — Abbé Faria
• 2001Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — Albus Dumbledore
• 2001My Kingdom — Sandeman
• 2001The Pearl — Dr. Karl
• Bette
• 2000Gladiator — Marcus Aurelius
• 1999Grizzly Falls — Old Harry
• 1999To Walk with Lions — George Adamson
• 1998The Barber of Siberia — Douglas McCraken
• 1997Smilla's Sense of Snow — Dr. Andreas Tork
• 1997The Hunchback — Dom Frollo
• 1997This Is the Sea — Old Man Jacobs
• 1996Trojan Eddie — John Power
• 1995Cry, the Beloved Country — James Jarvis
• 1995Savage Hearts — Sir Roger Foxley
• 1995The Great Kandinsky — Ernest Kandinsky
• 1994Silent Tongue — Prescott Roe
• 1993Abraham — Abraham
• Abraham — Abraham
• 1993Wrestling Ernest Hemingway — Frank
• 1992Patriot Games — Paddy O'Neil
• 1992Unforgiven — English Bob
• 1990King of the Wind — King George II
• 1990The Field — 'Bull' McCabe
• 1989Mack the Knife — Mr. Peachum
• 1988Maigret — Jules Maigret
• 1988Strike Commando 2 — Major Vic Jenkins
• 1985Martin's Day — Martin Steckert
• 1984Highpoint — Lewis Kinney
• 1983Triumphs of a Man Called Horse — John Morgan - Man Called Horse
• 1982Camelot — King Arthur
• 1981Tarzan the Ape Man — James Porter
• 1981Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid — Jason
• Russell Harty
• 1979Game for Vultures — David Swansey
• 1979Ravagers — Falk
• 1979The Last Word — Danny Travis
• 1978The Wild Geese — Capt. Rafer Janders
• 1977Golden Rendezvous — John Carter
• 1977Gulliver's Travels — Gulliver
• 1977Orca — Captain Nolan
• 1976Echoes of a Summer — Eugene
• 1976Robin and Marian — Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
• 1976The Cassandra Crossing — Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
• 1976The Return of a Man Called Horse — John Morgan / Horse, Executive Producer
• 197499 and 44/100% Dead — Harry Crown
• Flick Flack
• 1974Juggernaut — Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
• 1973The Deadly Trackers — Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
• 1971Man in the Wilderness — Zachary Bass
• 1971The Snow Goose — Philip Rhayadar
• 1970A Man Called Horse — John Morgan
• 1970Bloomfield — Eitan, Director, Screenplay
• 1970Cromwell — Oliver Cromwell
• 1970Return of the Islander — Narrator (voice)
• 1970The Molly Maguires — James McKenna
• 1967Camelot — King Arthur
• 1967Caprice — Christopher White
• 1966Hawaii — Rafer Hoxworth
• 1966The Bible: In the Beginning... — Cain
• 1965Major Dundee — Captain Benjamin Tyreen
• 1965The Heroes of Telemark — Knut Straud
• 1965The Three Faces — Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
• 1964Red Desert — Corrado Zeller
• 1963This Sporting Life — Frank Machin
• 1962Mutiny on the Bounty — Seaman John Mills
• 1961The Guns of Navarone — Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
• 1961The Long and the Short and the Tall — Cpl. Johnstone
• 1960A Terrible Beauty — Sean Reilly
• 1959Alive and Kicking — Lover
• 1959Shake Hands with the Devil — Terence O'Brien
• 1959The Wreck of the Mary Deare — Higgins
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Philip Rhayadar

Appearances as themselves (21)

• 2005Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' — Self
• 2005Strength and Honor: Production Pods — Self
• 2004The Magic Touch of Harry Potter — Self
• 2002Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' — Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self
• 2001Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World — Self
• 2000Hellraisers — Self
• 1998Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! — Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties — Self
• 1988Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute — Self
• 1978Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese — Self
• Dinah! — Self
• 1973Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• The Hollywood Palace — Self - Singer
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self - Co-Host
• Cinépanorama — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self