Richard Harris Biography, Wife, Death, Son, Songs And Movies

Richard Harris Biography

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

After completing his studies at the Academy, he joined Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop. He began getting roles in West End theatre productions, starting with The Quare Fellow in 1956, a transfer from the Theatre Workshop. He spent nearly a decade in obscurity, learning his profession on stages throughout the UK.

He played an aristocrat captured by Native Americans in A Man Called Horse in 1970, a gunfighter 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 of 2001 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets of 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 United Kingdom, Ireland and United States 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 in Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 72.

Richard Harris Young

He was schooled by the Jesuits at Crescent College. His athletic career was cut short when he caught tuberculosis in his teens. He remained an ardent fan of the Munster Rugby and Young Munster teams until his death. He moved to Britain, wanting to become a director. He could not find any suitable training courses, and enrolled in the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art to learn acting.

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

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 later married the American actress Ann Turkel. In 1982, they divorced.

Richard Harris Children| Sons

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 was once the partner of Peta Wilson.

Richard Harris Death

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

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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 Wilderness
• The Field
• Patriot Games
• Juggernaut
• Wild Geese
• This Sporting Life
• The Guns of Navarone
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Major Dundee
• The Cassandra Crossing
• Red Desert
• The Return of a Man Called Horse
• Tarzan, the Ape Man
• Cromwell
• The Molly Maguires
• The Heroes of Telemark
• 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 Sense of Snow
• Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
• Hawaii
• Silent Tongue
• Caprice
• To Walk with Lions
• Golden Rendezvous
• Echoes of a Summer
• 99 and 44/100% Dead
• My Kingdom
• Shake Hands with the Devil
• Game for Vultures
• Kaena: The Prophecy
• King of the Wind
• Martin’s Day
• Trojan Eddie
• Ravagers
• The Long and the Short and the Tall
• A Terrible Beauty
• Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

Richard Harris Harry Potter

Adaptation of the first of J.K. 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 possesses unique magical powers of his own. 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 discover the truth about his parents’ mysterious deaths.

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

Richard Harris Camelot

After the arranged marriage of Arthur (Richard Harris) and Guinevere (Vanessa Redgrave), the king gathers the noble knights of the realm to his Round Table. The dashing and stalwart Lancelot (Franco Nero) joins, but soon finds himself enraptured by the lovely Guinevere. When Arthur’s illegitimate son, Mordred (David Hemmings), reappears in the kingdom and outs the secret lovers, Arthur finds himself trapped by his own rules into taking action against his wife and closest friend.

Initial release: 14 March 1967
Director: Joshua Logan
Awards: Academy Award for Best Original Music 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 a common gladiator. The emperor’s son is enraged when he is passed over as heir in favour of his father’s favourite 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 subsequent popularity in the arena threatens the throne.

Initial release: 1 May 2000 (Los Angeles)
Director: Ridley Scott
Featured song: Now We Are Free
Awards: 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
Didn’t We
If You Must Leave My Life
The Hymns From Grand Terrace
Lovers Such As I
In the Final Hours
The Yard Went on Forever
Name of My Sorrow
One of the Nicer Things
How to Handle a Woman
Dancing Girl
Gayla
Sidewalk-Song
Lucky Me
Fill the World With Love
Paper Chase
There Are Too Many Saviours
That’s the Way It Was
A Tramp Shining
The Hive
My Boy
Slides
I Don’t Have to Tell You
Ballad to an Unborn Child
Requiem
I Wonder What The King Is Doing Tonight?
Gin Buddy
This Is Our Child
Blue Canadian Rocky Dream
Trilogy From “The Prophet”
Once Upon a Dusty Road
Sunny-Jo
Richard Harris Macarthur Park
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Richard Harris Macarthur Park Lyrics

Richard Harris Didn’t We

Richard Harris MacArthur Park Original 1968