Celebrity Biographies
Richard Harris
On October 25, 2002, Richard Harris, a pedigree actor, specialized in roles as rough and crude as the climate of his homeland, died. He was 72 years old.
Throughout his life he disdained being what they call a “movie star.” In fact, she loved acting, but she hated doing it in movies. That’s how strange and paradoxical her character was, little given to gilding the first passerby. What’s more, he himself said that he had no friends in the cinema and stated emphatically: “I’m part of the business, but I’m out of it.”
Richard Harris was born in Limerick (Ireland) on October 1, 1930. The son of a flour merchant, he soon knew that his vocation was to interpret. He entered the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art back in the 1950s, a decade in which he worked on numerous plays. He made his film debut with Lights of the Wild (1959) and shortly thereafter, under the direction of Lindsay Anderson , scored one of the most outstanding triumphs of his career with The Ingenuous Savage.(1963), a film that earned him his first Oscar nomination. Her career was predicted to be successful, but… something happened. “Love, failure and anger, I live them with intensity, like a good Irishman”, those are his words, and to them we should also add a few drops of alcohol (a hobby he often shared with his colleagues Richard Burton and Peter O. ‘Tool ). However, despite his idyll with spirits, he returned to the top with Camelot (1967), further demonstrating that he had an extraordinary gift for singing. His role was praised around the world and earned him the Golden Globe.
But it was in 1970 when the one that undoubtedly became the most emblematic role of his filmography would arrive. The image of his body hanging from hooks in A Man Called a Horse made an impact due to his hardness and telluric visual force. An equally powerful character in El prado (1980) earned him his second Oscar nomination years later. In recent years, he has stood out as Bob “the Englishman” in Unforgiven (1992), as an assassinated emperor in Gladiator (2000) or giving life to the famous wizard Albus Dumbledore in the first two installments of Harry Potter. Now, we can only hope that his magic will always live on the screen.