BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD HARRIS

Richard Harris St. John was an Irish actor and singer. He appeared on stage and in numerous films, appearing as Frank What’s-his-name in This Sporting Life. He was born October 1, 1930 in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland and died October 25, 2002 in Fitzrovia, London, England.

After graduating from the Academy, he joined Joan Littlewood’s theater studio. He began getting roles in West End theater productions, starting with The Quare Fellow in 1956, a transfer from the Theater Workshop. He spent nearly a decade in obscurity, learning his profession on stages across the UK.

He played an aristocrat captured by Native Americans in 1970’s A Man Called Horse, a fighter in Clint Eastwood’s Western film Unforgiven in 1992, Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator in 2000, and Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films. : Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone from 2001 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets from 2002, the latter of which was his final film role. Harris had a number one hit in Australia and Canada and a top ten hit in the UK, Ireland and the US with his 1968 recording of Jimmy Webb’s song ‘MacArthur Park’.

RICHARD HARRIS AGE

He was born in 1930 in Limerick, Republic of Ireland and died in 2002 of Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 72.

RICHARD HARRIS YOUNG

He was educated by the Jesuits at Crescent College. His athletic career was cut short when he caught tuberculosis as a teenager. He remained an avid fan of the Munster Rugby and Young Munster teams until his death. He moved to Britain, wanting to become a director. He couldn’t find suitable training courses and enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art to learn acting.

He had failed an audition at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was rejected by the Central School of Speech and Drama, as they felt he was too old at 24. Still a student, he rented the tiny “off-West End” Irving Theatre, and directed his own production of Clifford Odets’ play Winter Journey there. This show was a critical success, but was a financial failure, and he lost all of his life savings in this endeavor.

RICHARD HARRIS WIFE

He was married to Elizabeth Rees-Williams, daughter of David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore, they had three children. The couple divorced in 1969. He then married American actress Ann Turkel. In 1982, they divorced.

RICHARD HARRIS CHILDREN | SON

He had three children: actor Jared Harris, who was once married to Emilia Fox; actor Jamie Harris; and director Damian Harris, who was once married to Annabel Brooks and once partnered with Peta Wilson.

DEATH OF RICHARD HARRIS

He was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in August 2002, after being hospitalized with pneumonia. He had fallen into a coma during his last three days. He died at University College Hospital in Fitzrovia, London, on October 25, 2002, aged 72. His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Bahamas, where he owned a home.

RICHARD HARRIS NET WORTH

He had a net worth of $20 million at the time of his death in 2002.

RICHARD HARRIS MOVIES

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
• Gladiator
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• unforgiven
• A man called horse
• Camelot
• the count of Monte Cristo
• orca
• man in the desert
• Field
• patriot games
• Mastodon
• wild goose
• This sporting life
• The cannons of Navarone
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Major Dundee
• Cassandra’s Passage
• red desert
• The Return of a Man Called Horse
• Tarzan the Ape Man
• Cromwell
• The Molly Maguires
• Telemark Heroes
• The Bible: In the Beginning…
• Robin and Marian
• The Deadly Trackers
• Cry, the beloved country
• Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
• The wreck of the Mary Deare
• Gulliver’s Travels
• Smilla’s Sens of Snow
• Ernest Hemingway Wrestling
• Hawaii
• silent tongue
• Caprice
• Walk with Lions
• Golden date
• Echoes of a summer
• 99 and 44/100% dead
• My kingdom
• shake hands with the devil
• game for vultures
• Kaena: The Prophecy
• wind king
• Martin’s Day
• Trojan Eddie
• pests
• The long and the short and the tall
• A terrible beauty
• Your ticket is no longer valid

RICHARD HARRISHARRY POTTER

Adaptation of the first of JK Rowling’s popular children’s novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and has his own magical powers. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted child to become a student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards. There he meets several friends who become his closest allies and help him uncover the truth about his parents’ mysterious death.

First release: November 4, 2001 (London)
Director: Chris Columbus
Music composed by: John Williams
Producer: David Heyman
Box office: $974.8 million

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RICHARD HARRIS CAMELOT

After the arranged marriage of Arthur (Richard Harris) and Guinevere (Vanessa Redgrave), the king gathers the noble knights of the kingdom at his round table. The dashing and faithful Lancelot (Franco Nero) joins, but soon finds himself enchanted by the beautiful Guinevere. When Arthur’s illegitimate son, Mordred (David Hemmings), reappears in the kingdom and eliminates the secret lovers, Arthur finds himself trapped by his own rules to act against his wife and closest friend.

First release: March 14, 1967
Director: Joshua Logan
Awards: Oscar for Best Original Score.
Music composed by: Frederick Loewe, Alfred Newman

RICHARD HARRIS GLADIATOR

Set in Roman times, the story of a once powerful general forced to become an ordinary gladiator. The Emperor’s son is furious when he passes as heir to his father’s favorite general. He kills his father and arranges the murder of the general’s family, and the general is sold into slavery to be trained as a gladiator – but his later popularity in the arena threatens the throne.

First Release: May 1, 2000 (Los Angeles)
Director: Ridley Scott
Featured Song: Now We’re Free
Award: Academy Award for Best Picture.
Music composed by: Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard

RICHARD HARRIS VS. MICHAEL GAMBON

Richard Harris vs. Michael Gambon

RICHARD HARRIS SONGS

MacArthur Park
Haven’t we
If you must leave my life
The hymns of the great terrace
Lovers like me
In the last hours
The yard is gone forever
Name of my sorrow
One of the most beautiful things
How to handle a woman
Dancer
Gayla
Song of sidewalk
I’m lucky
Fill the world with love
Hunt for paper
There are too many saviors
It was like that
A tramp who shines
The beehive
My boy
Slides
I don’t have to tell you
Ballad to a child at be born
Requiem
I wonder what the king is doing tonight?
Gin Buddy
It’s Our Child
Blue Canadian Rocky Dream
‘The Prophet’ Trilogy Once
Upon a Dusty Road
Sunny-Jo
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