Richard Harris

Gender: Male
Born: 1st October 1930
Died: 25th October 2002
Nationality: Republic of Ireland
Movies: Camelot, Gladiator, Grizzly Falls, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Hawaii, Juggernaut, Major Dundee, Mutiny on the Bounty, Orca, Tarzan, the Ape Man, The Bible: In The Beginning, The Cassandra Crossing, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Molly Maguires, The Return of a Man Called Horse, This Is the Sea, This Sporting Life, Unforgiven, The Field, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Caprice, Cry, the Beloved Country, A Man Called Horse, Cromwell, Red Desert, Kaena: The Prophecy, Silent Tongue, To Walk With Lions, Mack the Knife, Man in the Wilderness, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, The Barber of Siberia, The Heroes of Telemark, A Game for Vultures, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Abraham, The Apocalypse, Trojan Eddie, 99 and 44/100% Dead, Wild Geese, The Triumphs of a Man Called Horse, The Apocalypse, Echoes of a Summer, Strike Commando 2, The Wreck of the Mary Deare, The Guns of Navarone, Patriot Games, Robin and Marian, The Pearl, My Kingdom, The Deadly Trackers, Gulliver's Travels, The Deadly Trackers, Martin's Day, Ravagers, King of the Wind, Alive and Kicking,

Richard St John Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) 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 the first two films in the Harry Potter series, his final works. He played a British aristocrat and prisoner in A Man Called Horse (1970), Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000), Saint John in Apocalypse Revelation (2002), gunfighter English Bob in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992), and Dom Frollo in the 1997 TV movie version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Harris had a top ten hit in the UK and the US with his 1968 recording of Jimmy Webb's song "MacArthur Park".

Harris, the fifth of nine children, was born in Limerick city, Ireland (then known as the Irish Free State) into a middle-class, staunchly Roman Catholic family. His parents were Ivan John Harris (b. 1896, son of Richard Harris, b. 1854, son of James Harris of St. Michael's, Limerick) and Mildred Josephine Harty Harris (b. 1898, daughter of James Harty, St. John's, Limerick, who owned a

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