Richard Harris

Acting

Born 1930-10-01 Died 2002-10-25 Limerick City, Munster, Ireland 100 credits Golden Globe Awards 2 Grammy Awards 1 Sovereign Military Order of Malta 1 British Independent Film Award – The Richard Harris Award 1 European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 1

Awards

Nominated for 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 nominated

1991 Best Actor Nominated The Field
1964 Best Actor Nominated This Sporting Life

Golden Globe Awards 2 won · 1 nominated

1990 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated The Field
1967 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Won Camelot
— Golden Globe Awards Won

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 nominated

2001 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated Gladiator

Grammy Awards 1 won · 2 nominated

1973 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording Won Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1968 Album of the Year Nominated A Tramp Shining
1968 Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Nominated

Sovereign Military Order of Malta 1 won

— Sovereign Military Order of Malta Won

British Independent Film Award – The Richard Harris Award 1 won

2002 British Independent Film Award – The Richard Harris Award Won

British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film 1 nominated

2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film Nominated My Kingdom

European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 1 won

2000 European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Won

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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.