Richard Harris

Richard Harris's biography

Richard Harris is 72 years old actor born at Limerick. He was born on Wednesday 1st of October 1930. According to year of birth 1930 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 1st of October means he is Libra. Libra sign depicts that it is all about “Balance”. It seems that their life is very balanced, however, things are way opposite as they always face unstable situations in order to balance it further.He was married 2 times.

He is native english speaker. He is citizen of Republic of Ireland. His primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as film director, singer, film producer, rugby union player, screenwriter, philosopher, singer-songwriter, stage actor, film actor, musician, director. He is recently known as recording artist. He received Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Camelot in 1967

Richard Harris's dad

Richard Harris's father's name is Ivan Harris.

Richard Harris's family

Richard Harris's ex spouses

Ann Turkel

Richard Harris and Ann Turkel have been together since 1974 for 8 years. She is known as actor. His ex spouse was born on Tuesday 16th of July 1946 in New York City.

Elizabeth Rees

Richard Harris and Elizabeth Rees have been together since 1957 for 12 years. She is known as actor. His ex spouse was born on Friday 1st of May 1936 in Cardiff. His ex spouse died on Friday 15th of April 2022. Elizabeth Rees was 92 years old, when this happened.

He has 2 sons.

Richard Harris's son: Damian Harris

Richard Harris's son's name is Damian Harris. He is known as film director. His son was born on Saturday 2nd of August 1958 in London.

Richard Harris's son: Jared Harris

Richard Harris's son's name is Jared Harris. He is known as actor. His son was born on Thursday 24th of August 1961 in London.

Richard Harris's schools

We found 2 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Crescent College.

Richard Harris's career

His main focus is to be actor. He is famous thanks to Camelot. You could see him also in Camelot, This Sporting Life, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and many more.

How did Richard Harris die

He died on on Friday 25th of October 2002 when he was 72 years old at University College Hospital. Richard Harriss death was caused by hodgkin's disease. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Richard Harris's Awards

• He was awarded the 1990 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance in Henry IV.
• Received the Laurence Olivier Award for his acclaimed performances at the Royal National Theatre, London, England.
• Mickey Rourke dedicated his 2009 BAFTA award for Best Actor to Harris, calling him "a good friend and great actor.".

Richard Harris's Nominations

• He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor for work This Sporting Life in 1963
• He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor for work The Field in 1990
• He was nominated for BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film for work My Kingdom in 2002
• He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work The Field in 1990
• He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Camelot in 1967
• He was nominated for Grammy Award for Album of the Year for work A Tramp Shining in 1968
• He was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for work Jonathan Livingston Seagull in 1973
• He was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for work Gladiator in 2001
• He was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor for work Tarzan, the Ape Man in 1982

What Richard Harris has done for a first time

• The first Harry Potter film series cast member to die. Fittingly, Harris was also the first person to appear onscreen (at the beginning of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)).
• Harris was the very first person to record songwriter Jimmy Webb's "Macarthur Park" and scored a top ten hit in both the U.S. and U.K with his rendition in 1968.
• Around the time of his death, he worried he'd only be remembered for his role as Professor Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies.

Richard Harris's quotes

• There are too many prima donnas in this business and not enough action.
• I'm not interested in reputation or immortality or things like that . . . I don't care what I'm remembered for. I don't care if I'm remembered. I don't care if I'm not remembered. I don't care why I'm remembered. I genuinely don't care.
• No one gave me anything. I fought TB, I fought the devil. But I made people laugh. I don't want immortality. I've lived it all. I've done it all.
• [his response to hearing he had been Oscar nominated for This Sporting Life (1963)] I've struck a blow for the Irish rebellion!
• I can see the difficulties of making a movie. Directors and producers have to put up with a lot of rubbish from temperamental actors.
• [upon being carried out on a stretcher from the Savoy Hotel, to people entering the hotel] It was the food!
• I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people. And it's true, I never looked back to see the casualties.
• [on playing Professor Dumbledore] I'll keep doing it as long as I enjoy it, my health holds out and they still want me. But the chances of all three of those factors remaining constant are pretty slim.
• I feel most alive when I'm working on a film.
• I hate movies. They're a waste of time. I could be in a pub having more fun talking to idiots rather than sitting down and watching idiots perform.
• I consider a great part of my career a total failure. I went after the wrong things--got caught in the '60s. I picked pictures that were way below my talent. Just to have fun.
• [in 2000] I made films I did not want to see, I took planes to places I didn't want to visit, I bought houses I didn't live in. I was numb, and it didn't seem to matter.
• Actors take themselves so seriously. Samuel Beckett is important, James Joyce is--they left something behind them. But even Laurence Olivier is totally unimportant. Acting is actually very simple, but actors try to elevate it to an art.
• If ever I was miscast in my life, it was in the role of husband. I was the worst husband in the world.
• When I'm in trouble, I'm an Irishman. When I turn in a good performance, I'm an Englishman.
• [on his life] I wish I could remember it.
• [on turning 70] I can be eccentric now and get away with it.
• I have no friends in this business. I don't go to their clubs, don't go to their hangouts and don't mix at all. I am part of the business but I am apart from it. If anyone ever asks my advice, I tell them, "Don't take yourself too seriously".
• When I worked with Julie Andrews, I think I experienced the greatest hate I ever had for any human being.
• Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.
• People may look at Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton and me and say we never fulfilled our talent. But I laugh at that, and say to anyone with that view that I didn't fulfil their idea of my talent. I didn't fulfil the dreams that they had for me.
• Any suggestion that [Michael Caine] Has eclipsed the names of Finney, O'Toole, Burton, Bates, Smith and Courtenay is tantamount to prophesying that Rin-Tin-Tin will be solemnised beyond the memory of Brando.
• [on Tom Cruise] He's got very nice teeth, but has he ever read a book?
• [on Michael Caine] He is an over-fat flatulent 62-year-old windbag, a master of inconsequence now masquerading as a guru, passing off his vast limitations as pious virtues.
• [on Michael Caine's comments about being underappreciated in his own country] He takes himself too seriously. I've made 63 movies and I've never been nominated by BAFTA for anything. Do I care? Not in the slightest.
• [about Michael Caine comparing himself to Gene Hackman] Hackman is an intimidating and dangerous actor. Mr. Caine is about as dangerous as Stan Laurel or Oliver Hardy, or indeed both, and as intimidating as Shirley Temple.
• [on Michael Caine receiving his honorary BAFTA] Good luck to him with his BAFTA mask. I hope he does us all a favor and wears the bloody thing in front of his face wherever he goes.
• (On Charlton Heston) He'd played in Shakespeare and to listen to him, you'd think he helped the Bard with the rewrites. He was a prick, really, and I liked tackling pricks.
• There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
• I never got to know my parents and they never got to know me.
• Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
• I never pick fights. People pick fights with me.
• Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
• I was a rude, bombastic, opinionated, beautifully ignorant when I got drunk.
• I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.
• Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.
• [on agreeing to the 'Harry Potter' film series]: The idea of doing seven films was intimidating. I would have to get permission to do something else and I'm rebellious by nature. I felt it could be rather difficult to handle.
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Richard Harris's body shape

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