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Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. He appeared on stage and in many films, notably as Corrado Zeller in
Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962 ...
's '' Red Desert'', Frank Machin in '' This Sporting Life'', for which he was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actor The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The ...
, and as
King Arthur King Arthur ( cy, Brenin Arthur, kw, Arthur Gernow, br, Roue Arzhur) is a legendary king of Britain, and a central figure in the medieval literary tradition known as the Matter of Britain. In the earliest traditions, Arthur appears as ...
in the 1967 film ''
Camelot Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as th ...
'', as well as the 1981 revival of the stage musical. He played an English aristocrat captured by the
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in '' A Man Called Horse'' (1970),
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in ''
Cromwell Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three Ki ...
'' (1970), an embattled Irish farmer in
Jim Sheridan Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish playwright and filmmaker. Between 1989 and 1993, Sheridan directed two critically acclaimed films set in Ireland, '' My Left Foot'' and '' In the Name of the Father'', and later directed the fi ...
's '' The Field'' (which earned him a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor), English Bob in
Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series '' Rawhide'', he rose to international fame with his role as the " Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "'' Do ...
's
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'' Unforgiven'' (1992), Roman emperor
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in ''
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'' (2000), ''
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'' (2002) as
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, and
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in the first two ''
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'' 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 Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including " Up, Up and Away", " By the Time I Get to Phoenix", " MacArthur Park", " Wichita Lineman", " Wo ...
's song " MacArthur Park". In 2020, he was listed at number 3 on ''
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''s list of Ireland's greatest film actors.


Early life

Harris was born on 1 October 1930, at Overdale, 8 Landsdown Villas, Ennis Road,
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, son of flour merchant Ivan Harris and Mildred (née Harty). Overdale was "a tall, elegant, early 19th-century redbrick" house with nine bedrooms, in a wealthy part of Limerick, the houses "built at the turn of the 20th century for Limerick's burgeoning middle class... people who could afford properly grand drawing rooms, a bedroom each for the children and one for the pot, plus space for a few servants". He was educated by the
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at Crescent College. A talented
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player, he appeared on several Munster Junior and Senior Cup teams for Crescent, and played for Garryowen. Harris's athletic career was cut short when he caught
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in his teens. He remained an ardent fan of the
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and Young Munster teams until his death, attending many of their matches, and there are numerous stories of japes at rugby matches with actors and fellow rugby fans
Peter O'Toole Peter Seamus O'Toole (; 2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was a British stage and film actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old V ...
and
Richard Burton Richard Burton (; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable pe ...
. After recovering from
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, Harris moved to Great Britain, wanting to become a director. He could not find any suitable training courses, and enrolled in the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) is a drama school located in Hammersmith, London. It is the oldest specialist drama school in the British Isles and a founding member of the Federation of Drama Schools. LAMDA's Principal is ...
to learn acting. He had failed an audition at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Senat ...
and had been rejected by the Central School of Speech and Drama, because they felt he was too old at 24. While still a student, he rented the tiny "off- West End" Irving Theatre, and there directed his own production of Clifford Odets's play ''Winter Journey (The Country Girl)''. After completing his studies at the academy, he joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. He began getting roles in West End theatre productions, starting with '' The Quare Fellow'' in 1956, a transfer from the Theatre Workshop. He spent nearly a decade in obscurity, learning his profession on stages throughout the UK.


Career


Early supporting roles

Harris made his film debut in 1959 in the film '' Alive and Kicking'', and played the lead role in '' The Ginger Man'' in the West End in 1959. In his second film he had a small role as an IRA Volunteer in '' Shake Hands with the Devil'' (1959), supporting
James Cagney James Francis Cagney Jr. (; July 17, 1899March 30, 1986) was an American actor, dancer and film director. On stage and in film, Cagney was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. He ...
. The film was shot in Ireland and directed by Michael Anderson who offered Harris a role in his next movie, ''
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'' (1959), shot in Hollywood. Harris played another IRA Volunteer in '' A Terrible Beauty'' (1960), alongside
Robert Mitchum Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor. He rose to prominence with an Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor for ''The Story of G.I. Joe'' (1945), followed by his starring in ...
. He had a memorable
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in the film '' The Guns of Navarone'' (1961) as a
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pilot who reports that blowing up the "bloody guns" of the island of Navarone is impossible by an air raid. He had a larger part in '' The Long and the Short and the Tall'' (1961), playing a British soldier; Harris clashed with
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and Richard Todd during filming. For his role in the film '' Mutiny on the Bounty'' (1962), despite being virtually unknown to film audiences, Harris reportedly insisted on third billing, behind
Trevor Howard Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) was an English stage, film, and television actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved star status with his role in the film ''Brief Encounter'' (1945), followed by ''T ...
and
Marlon Brando Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he received numerous accolades throughout his career, which spanned six decades, including two Academ ...
, an actor he greatly admired. However, Harris fell out with Brando over the latter's behaviour during the film's production.


''This Sporting Life''

Harris's first starring role was in the film '' This Sporting Life'' (1963), as a bitter young coal miner, Frank Machin, who becomes an acclaimed
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football player. It was based on the novel by David Storey and directed by
Lindsay Anderson Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for ...
. For his role, Harris won
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in 1963 at the
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and an
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. Harris followed this with a leading role in the Italian film,
Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962 ...
's '' Il Deserto Rosso'' (''Red Desert'', 1964). This won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Harris received an offer to support
Kirk Douglas Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in '' The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'' (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. D ...
in a British war film, '' The Heroes of Telemark'' (1965), directed by
Anthony Mann Anthony Mann (born Emil Anton Bundsmann; June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967) was an American film director and stage actor. Mann initially started as a theatre actor appearing in numerous stage productions. In 1937, he moved to Hollywood where ...
, playing a Norwegian resistance leader. He then went to Hollywood to support
Charlton Heston Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist. As a Hollywood star, he appeared in almost 100 films over the course of 60 years. He played Moses in the epic film ''The Ten ...
in
Sam Peckinpah David Samuel Peckinpah (; February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter. His 1969 Western epic ''The Wild Bunch'' received an Academy Award nomination and was ranked No. 80 on the American Film Institut ...
's '' Major Dundee'' (1965), as an Irish immigrant who became a Confederate cavalryman during the
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. He played
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in
John Huston John Marcellus Huston ( ; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered ...
's film '' The Bible: In the Beginning...'' (1966). More successful at the box office was ''
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'' (1966), in which Harris starred alongside
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and
Max von Sydow Max von Sydow ( , ; born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television ...
. As a change of pace, he was the romantic lead in a
Doris Day Doris Day (born Doris Mary Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, " Sent ...
spy spoof comedy, '' Caprice'' (1967), directed by
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.


''Camelot'', ''A Man Called Horse''

Harris next performed the role of
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in the film adaptation of the musical play ''
Camelot Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as th ...
'' (1967). Critic
Roger Ebert Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert beca ...
described the casting of Harris and
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as "about the best King Arthur and Queen Guenevere I can imagine". Harris revived the role in a
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revival at the
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from 15 November 1981, to 2 January 1982, and broadcast on HBO a year later. Starring
Meg Bussert Meg Bussert (born October 21, 1949) is an American actress, singer and a university professor. Early life Born in Chicago, Illinois,Richard Muenz as Lancelot and
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as Tom of Warwick. Harris, who had starred in the film, and Muenz also took the show on tour nationwide. In '' The Molly Maguires'' (1970), he played James McParland, the detective who infiltrates the title organisation, headed by
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. It was a box office flop. However '' A Man Called Horse'' (1970), with Harris in the title role, an 1825 English aristocrat who is captured by Native Americans, was a major success. He played the title role in the film ''
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'' in 1970 opposite
Alec Guinness Sir Alec Guinness (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing comedies, including '' Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (1 ...
as King
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. That year British exhibitors voted him the 9th-most popular star at the UK box office.


Singing career

Harris recorded several albums of music, one of which, ''
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'', included the seven-minute hit song " MacArthur Park" (Harris insisted on singing the lyric as "MacArthur's Park"). This song was written by
Jimmy Webb Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including " Up, Up and Away", " By the Time I Get to Phoenix", " MacArthur Park", " Wichita Lineman", " Wo ...
, and it reached number 2 on the American ''
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''
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chart. It also topped several music sales charts in Europe during the summer of 1968. "MacArthur Park" sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. A second album, also consisting entirely of music composed by Webb, '' The Yard Went on Forever'', was released in 1969. In the 1973 TV special "
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in Shangri-La", after singing Webb's "Didn't We", Harris tells Bacharach that since he was not a trained singer he approached songs as an actor concerned with words and emotions, acting the song with the sort of honesty the song is trying to convey. Then he proceeds to sing "If I Could Go Back", from the ''
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'' soundtrack.


1970s

In 1971 Harris starred in a BBC TV film adaptation '' The Snow Goose'', from a screenplay by Paul Gallico. It won a
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for Best Movie made for TV and was nominated for both a BAFTA and an
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. and was shown in the U.S. as part of the ''
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''. He made his directorial debut with '' Bloomfield'' (1971) and starred in '' Man in the Wilderness'' (1971), a
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based on the
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story.


Action star

Harris starred in a Western for
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, ''Riata'', which stopped production several weeks into filming. The project was re-assembled with a new director and cast, except for Harris, who returned: ''
The Deadly Trackers ''The Deadly Trackers'' is a 1973 American Western film directed by Barry Shear and starring Richard Harris, Rod Taylor and Al Lettieri. It is based on the novel ''Riata'' by Samuel Fuller. Plot Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick (Harris) is a pacifist. H ...
'' (1973). In 1973, Harris published a book of poetry, ''I, In the Membership of My Days'', which was later reissued in part in an audio LP format, augmented by self-penned songs such as "I Don't Know". Harris starred in two thrillers: '' 99 and 44/100% Dead'' (1974), for
John Frankenheimer John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were ''Birdman of Alcatraz'' (1962), '' The Manchurian Candidate'' ( ...
, and ''
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'' (1974), for Richard Lester. In ''
Echoes of a Summer ''Echoes of a Summer'' is a 1976 Canadian-American family drama film directed by Don Taylor, based on the play ''Isle of Children'' by Robert L. Joseph, who also adapted the screenplay. It stars Jodie Foster, Richard Harris, Lois Nettleton, Br ...
'' (1976) he played the father of a young girl with a terminal illness. He had a cameo as Richard the Lionheart in '' Robin and Marian'' (1976), for Lester, then was in ''
The Return of a Man Called Horse ''The Return of a Man Called Horse'' is a 1976 Western film directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Jack DeWitt. It is a sequel to the 1970 film '' A Man Called Horse'', in turn based on Dorothy M. Johnson’s short story of the same name, ...
'' (1976). Harris led the all-star cast in the train disaster film '' The Cassandra Crossing'' (1976). He played Gulliver in the part-animated ''
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'' (1977) and was reunited with Michael Anderson in ''
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'' (1977), battling a killer whale. He appeared in another action film, '' Golden Rendezvous'' (1977), based on a novel by Alistair Maclean, shot in South Africa. Harris was sued by the film's producer for his drinking; Harris counter-sued for defamation and the matter was settled out of court. ''Golden Rendezvous'' was a flop but ''
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'' (1978), where Harris played one of several mercenaries, was a big success outside America. '' Ravagers'' (1979) was more action, set in a
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world. '' Game for Vultures'' (1979) was set in Rhodesia and shot in South Africa. In Hollywood he appeared in a comedy, '' The Last Word'' (1979), then supported Bo Derek in '' Tarzan, the Ape Man'' (1981). He made a film in Canada, ''
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'' (1981), a drama about impotence. He followed it with another Canadian film, ''
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'', a movie so bad it was not released for several years.


''Camelot'' again and ''Henry IV''

For a while in the 1980s, Harris went into semi-retirement on
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, in the
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, where he kicked his drinking habit and embraced a healthier lifestyle. It had a beneficial effect. Harris's career was revived by his success on stage in ''
Camelot Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as th ...
'', and powerful performance in the West End run of Pirandello's '' Henry IV''. He was the subject of ''
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'' in 1990, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel during the curtain call of the Pirandello's play ''Henry IV'' at the
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in London. His film work during this period included: '' Triumphs of a Man Called Horse'' (1983), ''
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'' (1985), ''Strike Commando 2'' (1988), '' King of the Wind'' (1990) and '' Mack the Knife'' (1990) (a film version of ''
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'' in which he played J.J. Peachum ) plus the TV film version of Maigret, opposite Barbara Shelley. This indicated declining popularity which Harris told his biographer,
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, he was "utterly reconciled to".


''The Field'' and ''Harry Potter''

In June 1989, director
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cast Harris in the lead role in '' The Field'', written by the esteemed Irish playwright
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. The lead role of "Bull" McCabe was to be played by former
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actor Ray McAnally. When McAnally died suddenly on 15 June 1989, Harris was offered the McCabe role. ''The Field'' was released in 1990 and earned Harris his second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He lost to
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for ''
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''. In 1992, Harris had a supporting role in the film '' Patriot Games''. He had good roles in '' Unforgiven'' (1992), '' Wrestling Ernest Hemingway'' (1993) and ''
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'' (1994). He played the title role in ''
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'' (1994) and had the lead in ''
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'' (1995). A lifelong supporter of Jesuit education principles, Harris established a friendship with University of Scranton President Rev. J. A. Panuska and raised funds for a scholarship for Irish students established in honour of his brother and manager, Dermot, who had died the previous year of a heart attack. He chaired acting workshops and cast the university's production of ''
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'' in November 1987. Over several years in the late 1980s, Harris worked with Irish author
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on his biography, which was published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1990. Harris appeared in two films which won the
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: firstly as the gunfighter "English Bob" in the revisionist Western '' Unforgiven'' (1992); secondly as the Roman Emperor
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in
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's ''
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'' (2000). He also played a lead role alongside
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in the
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film adaptation of ''
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'' (1995). In 1999, Harris starred in the film '' To Walk with Lions''. After ''Gladiator'', Harris played the supporting role of
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in the first two of the ''
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'' 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 portrayed
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in Kevin Reynolds' film adaptation of ''
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'' (2002). The film '' Kaena: The Prophecy'' (2003) was dedicated to him posthumously as he had voiced the character Opaz before his death. Harris hesitated to take the role of Dumbledore in '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (2001) at first due to his declining health, but ultimately accepted because his 11-year-old granddaughter threatened never to speak to him again if he did not take it. In an interview with the ''
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'' in 2001, Harris expressed his concern that his association with the ''Harry Potter'' films would outshine the rest of his career. He explained, "Because, you see, I don't just want to be remembered for being in those bloody films, and I'm afraid that's what's going to happen to me." Harris also made part of the Bible TV movie project filmed as a cinema production for the TV, a project produced by Lux Vide Italy with the collaboration of Radio Televisione Italiana RAI and Channel 5 of France, and premiered in the United States in the channel TNT in the 1990s. He portrayed the main and title character in the production ''Abraham'' (1993) as well as Saint
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in the 2000 TV film production ''Apocalypse''.


Personal life

In 1957, Harris married Elizabeth Rees-Williams, daughter of
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. They had three children: actor Jared Harris, actor Jamie Harris, and director
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. Harris and Rees-Williams divorced in 1969, after which Elizabeth married
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. Harris's second marriage was to the American actress
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. In 1982, they divorced. Harris was a member of the Roman Catholic
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, and was also dubbed a knight by the
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of Denmark in 1985. Harris paid £75,000 for
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'
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in Holland Park in 1968, after discovering that the American entertainer
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had arranged to buy the house but had not yet put down a deposit. Harris employed the original decorators, Campbell Smith & Company Ltd., to carry out extensive restoration work on the interior. Harris was a vocal supporter of the
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(PIRA) from 1973 until 1984. In January 1984 remarks he made on the previous month's Harrods bombing caused great controversy, after which he discontinued his support for the PIRA. At the height of his stardom in the 1960s and early 1970s Harris was almost as well known for his hellraiser lifestyle and heavy drinking as he was for his acting career. He was a longtime alcoholic until he became a
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in 1981. Nevertheless, he did resume drinking
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a decade later. He gave up drugs after almost dying from a
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overdose in 1978.


Illness and death

Harris was diagnosed with
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in August 2002, reportedly after being hospitalised with
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. He died at
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in
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, London, on 25 October 2002, aged 72. Harris had quipped that "It was the food!" as he was wheeled out of the
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for the last time. He was survived by his three sons, Damian, Jared and Jamie, having spent his final three days in a coma. Harris's body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered in the Bahamas, where he owned a home. Harris was a lifelong friend of actor
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, and his family reportedly hoped that O'Toole would replace Harris as Dumbledore in ''
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'' (2004). There were, however, concerns about insuring O'Toole for the six remaining films in the series. Harris was ultimately succeeded as Dumbledore by
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.
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, director of ''Philosopher's Stone'' and '' Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' (2002), had visited Harris during his last days and had promised him to not recast him as Dumbledore, confident of his eventual recovery. In a 2021 interview with ''
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'', Columbus revealed that Harris was writing an autobiography during his stay at the hospital, but the autobiography has never been published.


Memorials

On 30 September 2006, Manuel Di Lucia, of Kilkee, County Clare, a longtime friend, organised the placement in Kilkee of a bronze life-size statue of Richard Harris. It shows Harris at the age of eighteen playing the sport of squash. The sculptor was Seamus Connolly and the work was unveiled by
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. Harris was an accomplished squash racquets player, winning the Tivoli Cup in Kilkee four years in a row from 1948 to 1951, a record unsurpassed to this day. Another life-size statue of Richard Harris, as King Arthur from his film ''
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'', has been erected in Bedford Row, in the centre of his home town of Limerick. The sculptor of this statue was the Irish sculptor Jim Connolly, a graduate of the
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. At the 2009 BAFTAs, Mickey Rourke dedicated his Best Actor award to Harris, calling him a "good friend and great actor". In 2013, Rob Gill and Zeb Moore founded the annual Richard Harris International Film Festival. The Richard Harris Film Festival is one of Ireland's fastest-growing film festivals, growing from just ten films in 2013 to over 115 films in 2017. Each year, one of Harris's sons attends the festival in Limerick. In 2015 the Limerick Writers' Centre unveiled a commemorative plaque outside Charlie St George's pub on Parnell Street. The pub was a favourite drinking place of Harris on his visits to Limerick. The plaque, celebrating Harris's literary output is part of a Literary Walking Tour of Limerick, was unveiled by his son Jared Harris.


Legacy

In 1996 Harris was honoured with a commemorative Irish postage stamp for the "Centenary of Irish Cinema", a four-stamp set featuring twelve Irish actors in four Irish films.


Filmography


Film


Television


Theatre


Awards and nominations


Discography


Albums

* ''
Camelot Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as th ...
'' (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1967) * ''
A Tramp Shining ''A Tramp Shining'' is the debut album of Richard Harris, released in 1968 by Dunhill Records. The album was written, arranged, and produced by singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb. Although Harris sang several numbers on the soundtrack album to the film ...
'' (1968) * '' The Yard Went On Forever'' (1968) * ''The Richard Harris Love Album'' (1970) * ''
My Boy "My Boy" is a popular song from the early 1970s. The music was composed by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre and Claude François, and the lyrics were translated from the original version "Parce que je t'aime, mon enfant" (Because I Love You My Child) into E ...
'' (1971) * ''Slides'' (1972) * ''His Greatest Performances'' (1973) * ''The Prophet'' (1974) (music by Arif Mardin, based on '' The Prophet'' by Kahlil Gibran) * ''I, in the Membership of My Days'' (1974) * ''Gulliver Travels'' (1977) * ''Camelot'' (Original 1982 London Cast recording) (1982) * ''Mack The Knife'' (Original Soundtrack) (1989) * ''Little Tramp'' (1992) Musical * ''The Apocalypse'' (2004) the story of John the Apostle on Island named Patmos


Singles

* "Here in My Heart" (Theme from '' This Sporting Life'')" (1963) * "How to Handle a Woman (from ''
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'')" (1968) * " MacArthur Park" (1968) * " Didn't We?" (1968) * "The Yard Went On Forever" (1968) * "The Hive" (1969) * "One of the Nicer Things" (1969) * "Fill the World With Love" (1969) * "Ballad of '' A Man Called Horse''" (1970) * "Morning of the Mourning for Another Kennedy" (1970) * "Go to the Mirror" (1971) * "
My Boy "My Boy" is a popular song from the early 1970s. The music was composed by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre and Claude François, and the lyrics were translated from the original version "Parce que je t'aime, mon enfant" (Because I Love You My Child) into E ...
" (1971) * "Turning Back the Pages" (1972) * "Half of Every Dream" (1972) * "Trilogy (Love, Marriage, Children)" (1974) * "The Last Castle (Theme from ''
Echoes of a Summer ''Echoes of a Summer'' is a 1976 Canadian-American family drama film directed by Don Taylor, based on the play ''Isle of Children'' by Robert L. Joseph, who also adapted the screenplay. It stars Jodie Foster, Richard Harris, Lois Nettleton, Br ...
'')" (1976) * "Lilliput (Theme from ''
Gulliver's Travels ''Gulliver's Travels'', or ''Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships'' is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan ...
'')" (1977)


Soundtracks and compilations

* ''Camelot'' (Original 1982 London Cast Recording) (1988) * ''Mack the Knife'' (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1989) * ''Tommy'' (studio recording) (1990) * ''Camelot'' (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1993) * ''A Tramp Shining'' (1993) * ''The Prophet'' (1995) * ''The Webb Sessions 1968–1969'' (1996) * ''MacArthur Park'' (1997) * ''Slides/My Boy'' (2-CD Set) (2005) * ''My Boy'' (2006) * ''Man of Words Man of Music The Anthology 1968–1974'' (2008)


References


Further reading

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External links

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''Richard Harris file at Limerick City Library, Ireland''


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