

Cast & creator
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, The Mike Douglas Show
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.
Also known as: Richard St. John Harris
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film credits
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television credits
101
1948–2022 · acting roles
6.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Across film & television
Showing 104 of 104 credits

Self
1962
Self - Co-Host
1961
Self
1961
Self - Guest
1968
Albus Dumbledore
2001
Albus Dumbledore
2002
Self
1974
Self
1948Self
1971
Marcus Aurelius
2000
Self
1953
Self
1956
Self
2001
English Bob
1992
Self - Singer
1964
Abbé Faria
2002
Paddy O'Neil
1992
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
1961
Cain
1966

Philip Rhayadar
1951
Capt. Rafer Janders
1978
Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
1976
Captain Nolan
1977
Abraham
1993
Self
1993
Seaman John Mills
1962

Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
1976
Captain Benjamin Tyreen
1965
James Porter
1981
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
1974
Dom Frollo
1997
Lucius Silla
2002
Knut Straud
1965
Corrado Zeller
1964
John Morgan
1970
James McKenna
1970
Dr. Andreas Tork
1997
Douglas McCraken
1998
Zachary Bass
1971
King Arthur
1967
Higgins
1959
Abraham
1993
John Morgan / Horse
1976
Executive Producer
1976
John
2004
Oliver Cromwell
1970
James Jarvis
1995
Cpl. Johnstone
1961
Lewis Kinney
1984
Harry Crown
1974
John Morgan - Man Called Horse
1983
Frank
1993
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
1973
'Bull' McCabe
1990
Jason
1981
Terence O'Brien
1959
Self
2004
Eugene
1976
Rafer Hoxworth
1966
Self (archive footage)
1998
King Arthur
1982
Self
2005
King George II
1990
Old Man Jacobs
1997
George Adamson
1999
Self
1988
Prescott Roe
1994
Sir Roger Foxley
1995
Christopher White
1967
Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
1965
Self
2002
Frank Machin
1963
Philip Rhayadar
1971
Old Harry
1999
Self
2005

John Carter
1977
Mr. Peachum
1989
David Swansey
1979
Self
2001
Jules Maigret
1988
Gulliver
1977
Self
1973
Sean Reilly
1960
Martin Steckert
1985
Self
1978

Falk
1979
Lover
1959
Danny Travis
1979
Sandeman
2001
Dr. Karl
2001
Presenter
2002
Major Vic Jenkins
1988
Self
2000Ernest Kandinsky
1995
John Power
1996
Eitan
1970
Director
1970
Screenplay
1970Narrator (voice)
1970