Cast & creator
George Harrison
Best known for The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, Top of the Pops
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.
Also known as: The Beatles, Nelson Wilbury, Spike Wilbury, Traveling Wilburys
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film credits
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television credits
286
1948–2026 · acting roles
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Filmography (344)
Showing 344 of 344 credits
The Simpsons
George Harrison (voice)
1989
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
1975
Top of the Pops
Self
1964Top of the Pops
1964
Doctor Who
Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)
1963
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Wogan
Self
1982
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Omnibus
Self
1967
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948Film '72
Self
1971
Timewatch
Self (archive footage)
1982
Classic Albums
Self
1997
Sherwood
Nikko
2022
Morecambe & Wise
Self
1961
Disco
Self
1971
Life of Brian
Mr. Papadopolous (uncredited)
1979Life of Brian
Executive Producer
1979
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self (uncredited)
1967
History 101
Self (archive footage)
2020
McCartney 3, 2, 1
Self (archive footage)
2021
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Self (archive footage)
2011George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Music
2011
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Beatles Anthology
Self
1995
The Beatles
Self (vocals musical segments) (uncredited)
1965
Yesterday
Songs
2019
Across the Universe
Songs
2007
This Is Pop
Self (archive footage)
2021
A Hard Day's Night
George
1964
Time Bandits
Theme Song Performance
1981Time Bandits
Executive Producer
1981Time Bandits
Additional Music
1981
The Long Good Friday
Executive Producer
1980
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Self (archive footage)
2023
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Beatles: Get Back
Self (archive footage)
2021The Beatles: Get Back
Songs
2021
Yellow Submarine
George (uncredited)
1968Yellow Submarine
Songs
1968
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)
2022Frost on Sunday
Self (as The Beatles)
1968
In Their Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2015
Withnail & I
Executive Producer
1987
Man on the Run
Self (archive footage)
2026
Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
(Archive footage)
2013
Beatles '64
Self (archive footage)
2024Beatles '64
Songs
2024
The Beach Boys
Self (archive footage)
2024
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Self
1995
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
(archive footage)
1999
Mona Lisa
Executive Producer
1986
20th Century Greats
Self (archive footage)
2004
My Generation
Self (archive footage)
2017
David Frost Vs
self (archive footage)
2025
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
Self (archive footage)
2024
Nuns on the Run
Producer
1990
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Self (Archive Footage)
2016The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Songs
2016
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
The Interviewer (Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer)
1978
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
Self
2025
Shanghai Surprise
Nightclub Singer
1986Shanghai Surprise
Original Music Composer
1986Shanghai Surprise
Songs
1986Shanghai Surprise
Theme Song Performance
1986Shanghai Surprise
Executive Producer
1986
Help!
George
1965Help!
Songs
1965
If These Walls Could Sing
Self (archive footage)
2022
Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
Self
1993
Water
Himself - The Singing Rebels' Band
1985Water
Executive Producer
1985
How the Beatles Changed the World
Self (archive footage)
2017
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
Naqoyqatsi
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002Television: The First Fifty Years
Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
1999
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Self (archive footage)
1978
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Self (archive footage)
2018
The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road
Self (archive footage)
2003
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
Self (archive footage)
2018
Ringo
George Harrison
1978
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Executive Producer
1989
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Executive Producer
1982
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
Self (archive footage)
2023
Let It Be
Self - The Beatles (uncredited)
1970Let It Be
Songs
1970Let It Be
Executive Producer
1970
A Private Function
Executive Producer
1984
Evolver 62
Self (archive footage)
2026
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Self
1983
The Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany
Self - The Beatles
1966
Imagine
Self
1972
Beatles: Big Beat Box
Self (archive footage)
2001
No Hamburg, No Beatles
Self (archive footage)
2024
Concert for George
Self (archive footage)
2003
THE BEATLES in HELP!
Self (archive footage)
2007
Doctor Who: The Chase
Self (archive footage)
1965Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
1992
Track 29
Executive Producer
1988
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
Self (archive footage)
2020
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Self
1999
This Is Elvis
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1981
The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
Self
1992
Five Corners
Executive Producer
1987
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer (archive footage)
2003
Imagine: John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
1988
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Producer
1987
The Summer of Love
2017
The Movie Life of George
Self
1989
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Self - Musician (archive footage)
2017
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Self (archive footage)
2023
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
Self (archive footage)
2014
Meeting the Beatles in India
Self (archive footage)
2020
Bellman and True
Executive Producer
1987
Checking Out
Cleaner
1988Checking Out
Executive Producer
1988
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
Self (archive footage)
2022The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
Songs
2022
George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison
Self (archive footage)
2016
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Self (archive footage)
2012
What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
Self - The Beatles Member
1964
Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
Self (archive footage)
1996
The Beatles and India
Self (archive footage)
2021The Shadows At Sixty
Self (Archive Footage)
2020
George Harrison - All Things Pass
Self (archive footage)
2018
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
Self (archive footage)
1965
TWST / Things We Said Today
Self (archive footage)
2025
Pop Gear
Self
1965
Curves Contours & Body Horns
Self
1993
Take Your Pills
Self (archive footage)
2018
ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff
Self (archive footage)
2018
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
Self (archive footage)
2019
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
Self (archive footage)
2002Rock Milestones: The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Self (archive footage)
2007The Beatles: Watching Rainbows
Self (archive footage)
2004
Elvis: King of Entertainment
Self (archive footage)
2002
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Self (archive footage)
2023
Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties
Self
1986
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
1982
The Raggedy Rawney
Executive Producer
1988
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
Self
1974
The Missionary
Executive Producer
1982
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
2003
Superswede: A film about Ronnie Peterson
Self (archive footage)
2017
The Society of the Spectacle
Self (archive footage)
1974
Monument
Self (archive footage)
1967Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
Self (archive footage)
2016
The Prince's Trust Rock Gala
Self (archive footage)
1990
Raga
Self
1971
George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited
Self
2005
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
Self (archive footage)
2017
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Self (archival footage)
2021
The Beatles In America
Self (archive footage)
2007Tom Petty: Going Home
Self
1994
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
Executive Producer
1974
The Day the Music Died
Self
1977
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
Self
2000
Magical Mystery Tour
Self / Magician Looking Through Telescope
1967
Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
Self (archive footage)
2016Magical Mystery Tour
Original Music Composer
1967Magical Mystery Tour
Producer
1967Magical Mystery Tour
Songs
1967Magical Mystery Tour
Writer
1967Magical Mystery Tour
Director
1967
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
Self (archive footage)
2007
La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
2024
The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere
Self (archive footage)
2025
Powwow Highway
Executive Producer
1989
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
Self (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
2019
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
Self
2025British Rock: The First Wave
Self (archive footage)
1985
Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO
Self (archive footage)
2012
Wingspan
Self (archive footage)
2001
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1
Self (archive footage)
2019
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
Self
1987
An Accidental Studio
Self (archive footage)
2019Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Blue Album 1967 - 1970
Self (archive footage)
2008
Project 9: The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band
Self (archive footage)
2009Project 9: The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band
Thanks
2009
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
Self (archive footage)
1991
I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
Self (archive footage)
2011
The Beatles and the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2023
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
Self (archive footage)
2008
Everest
Music
1998
Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
Self (archive footage)
2010
A Love Letter to the Beatles
Self (archive footage)
2025
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
Self (archive footage)
2017
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
Self
1977
John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
Self (archive footage)
2010
Wonderwall
Original Music Composer
1969Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Red Album 1962 - 1966
Self (archive footage)
2008
Carl Perkins & Friends: Blue Suede Shoes - A Rockabilly Session
Self
1985
Things They Said Today
Self (archive footage)
2002
Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits
Self (archive)
2005
To John With Love
Self
2006The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years
Self (archive footage)
2010
Fun with the Fab Four
Self (archive footage)
1986
Jimi Plays Monterey
Self (archive footage)
1987
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
Self (archive footage)
2015
The Beatles: Around the World
Self (archive footage)
2003
Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies
archive footage
2010
Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled
Self (archive footage)
2014
El Rey en Londres
Self (archive footage)
1966
The Concert for Bangladesh
Self
1972The Concert for Bangladesh
Producer
1972
Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
Self (archive footage)
2003
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
Self (archive footage)
2004
Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
Self
1967
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2023
Palme
Self (archive footage)
2012
Genius
Self (archive footage)
2012
All This and World War II
Songs
1976
The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
Self (archive footage)
2005
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
Self (archive footage)
2018
Scrubbers
Executive Producer
1982
The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands
Self
1964
The Beatles: A Celebration
Self (archive footage)
1999
The Beatles Mod Odyssey
Self
1968
Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 2
Self
1987
The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries
Self
2009
The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
Self (archive footage)
2005
Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
Self (archive footage)
2019
The Beatles: Parting Ways
Self
2009
The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Beatles Come to Town
Self
1963
When the Beatles Drove Us Wild
archival footage
2014
The Beatles: Live in Paris
Self
1965
The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2
Self - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
2005
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles
Self (archive footage)
2010
Privates on Parade
Executive Producer
1983
The Beatles on Record
Self
2009
The Beatles Sing for Shell
Self
1964
Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles
Self (archive footage)
1974
Good Ol' Freda
Self (archive footage)
2013
Doctor Who: Origins
Self (archive footage)
2006
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
2020
The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
Self
2007
The Beatles: Their Golden Age
Self
2012
Cold Dog Soup
Executive Producer
1990
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2
Self (archive footage)
2011
Ringo Starr: One of Them
Self (archive footage)
2022
The Beatles: Abbey Road
Self - Guitar, Vocals
1969
Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel
Self
1978
Hagström: Allt i musik
Self (archive footage)
2003Revolution
Songs
1968Beatles chronology (1962-1970)
Self (archive footage)
2016
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965
Self (Archive Footage)
2008
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3
Self (archive footage)
2011
The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland
self
2008
The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
Self (archive footage)
2011
The Beatles: The Complete Story
Self (Archive Footage)
2010Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
Self (archive footage)
1992Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2
Self (archive footage)
2019
The Beatles: Something
Self
1969The Beatles: Something
Music
1969
Inside the Beatles: 1962-1970
Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
Additional Music
2001
Badfinger - They Sold A Million
Self (Archive Footage)
2013Taj Mahal and Friends
Self
1987
The Bannfoot Ferry
Self (archive footage)
2024
Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All
Self (archive footage)
2017
The Beatles - 1967-1970
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles LOVE
Music
2024
Beatles Stories
Self (archive footage)
2011
The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool
Self
1963
George Harrison: Live at The Royal Albert Hall
1992The Beatles: A Magical History Tour
Self (archive footage)
2010
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two
Self (archive footage)
1969
Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
Self
2022
Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live
Self
1993
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One
Self (archive footage)
1969
The Beatles in Australia
Self
1964
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three
Self (archive footage)
1969
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
Self (archive footage)
2008
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
Self (archive footage)
1969
The Beatles 1+
Self (archive footage)
2015
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
Self
2022
The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966
Self
1966
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4
Self (archive footage)
2011
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970
Self (archive footage)
2008
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
Self (archive footage)
2007
The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966)
Self - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
1966
The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966
Self
2012
Beatles Biggest Secrets
Self (archive footage)
2004
The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
Self
2018
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
Self (archive footage)
1964
The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966)
Self
1966
Bullshot
Executive Producer
1983
Mighty Good: The Beatles
Self
1977
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1
Self (archive footage)
2011
Louder Than Rock
Self (archive footage)
2023
Night Lunch
Self
1975
The Beatles: Up Close and Personal
Self (archive footage)
2008
The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum
Self
1964
The Compleat Beatles
Self (archive footage)
1982How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
Self (archive footage)
2022
The Beatles
Self (archive footage)
2025The Beatles
Musician
2025
George Harrison: In Performance
2008
Our World
Self
1967
Free to Rock
Self - The Beatles (archive footage)
2017
Building the Beatles
Self (Archive Footage)
Roy Orbison at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2023All You Need Is Love
Self
1967
All My Loving
Self
1968The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary
Self (archive footage)
1994
The Beatles Explosion
Self (archive footage)
2007
Reflections on Love
Self (archive footage)
1966
The Beatles Phenomenon
Self (archive footage)
2007Beatlemania
Songs
1981
14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
Self
2018
George Harrison: Live in North America 1974
1974
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Live In Denmark 1969
Self
2014
The Winged Beetle
Self
2012
Beatles: The Journey
Self (archive footage)
2003
My Sweet Lord in the Far East
Self
1991
Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India
Self
2010
George Harrison: Live in Japan
1991
Around the Beatles
Self
1964
Understanding Lennon/McCartney
Self (archive footage)
2018
George Harrison - The Quiet one
Self (archive footage)
2002
The Beatles 1
Self (archive footage)
2015
Beatles på Sverigeturné
Self (archive footage)
2014
Becoming the Beatles
Self
2012
Meet the Beatles
Self (Archival footage)
2005Meet the Beatles
Songs
2005
Året var 1963
Self (archive footage)
2013
George Harrison: The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992
Self (archive footage)
2004
The Beatles: Revolution
Self
1968
The Beatles: Love
Self
2006
The Mersey Sound
Self
1963
The Beatles - Trilogy
Self
2003Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Beatles Story
Self (archive footage)
1996
Året var 1967
Self (archive footage)
2017By My Side
Music
2023
George Harrison: All things must pass
Self (archive footage)
2004
George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75
Self (archive footage)
2014
The Beatles Unauthorized
Self (archive footage)
1996
Beatles Electroniques
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968