
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.
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as John
as Lucius Silla · 2 episodes
as Albus Dumbledore

as Presenter
as Abbé Faria
as Albus Dumbledore

as Sandeman

as Dr. Karl
as Old Harry
as George Adamson
as Douglas McCraken

as Old Man Jacobs
as Dom Frollo
as Dr. Andreas Tork

as John Power
as James Jarvis

as Mr. Peachum
as Major Vic Jenkins

as Jules Maigret
as Martin Steckert

as Lewis Kinney
as John Morgan - Man Called Horse

as King Arthur

as Jason

as Danny Travis
as Falk

as David Swansey
as Capt. Rafer Janders
as John Carter
as Captain Nolan
as Gulliver
as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
as King Arthur
as Christopher White
as Rafer Hoxworth
as Cain
as Knut Straud
as Captain Benjamin Tyreen

as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
as Corrado Zeller
as Higgins

as Lover
as Terence O'Brien

as Philip Rhayadar · 1 episode
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