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Richard Harris
Richard St John Francis Harris was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave. He received numerous accolades including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe. In 2020 he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actor…
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Born 1 October 1930 · Died 25 October 2002 · Q106775
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 5 entries
Released album “Patient 69 (Blood Is Thicker Than Water)”.
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Released album “Till The Cows Come Home”.
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Released album “Close to Home”.
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Released album “White Frog The End Is Near”.
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"MacArthur Park" was featured in the wedding sequence of the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “The Bandit Button Moon 2”.
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Released album “Flood”.
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2020· 1 entry
Was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors
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2015· 1 entry
The Limerick Writers' Centre unveiled a commemorative plaque outside Charlie St George's pub on Parnell Street
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2013· 1 entry
Rob Gill and Zeb Moore founded the annual Richard Harris International Film Festival
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “I, in the Membership of My Days - Poems and Songs by Richard Harris & Sons”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Man of Words, Man of Music: The Anthology 1968-1974”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “TV Now”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “My Boy / Slides”.
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2002· 2 entries
Died 2002-10-25.
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Awarded British Independent Film Award – The Richard Harris Award (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Harris expressed his concern that his association with the Harry Potter films would outshine the rest of his career
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Harris starred in the film To Walk with Lions
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “The Webb Sessions 1968-1969”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “MacArthur Park”.
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1996· 1 entry
Harris was honoured with a commemorative Irish postage stamp for the "Centenary of Irish Cinema", a four-stamp set featuring twelve Irish actors in four Irish films
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1992· 1 entry
Harris had a supporting role in the film Patriot Games
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1990· 2 entries
And earned Harris his second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor
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When he was surprised by Michael Aspel during the curtain call of the Pirandello's play Henry IV at the Wyndham's Theatre in London
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Mack the Knife”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “The Prophet”.
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1973· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording for Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973).
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Released album “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”.
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Harris published a book of poetry, I, In the Membership of My Days, which was later reissued in part in an audio LP format, augmented by self-penned songs such as "I Don't Know"
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Released album “His Greatest Performances”.
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1972· 2 entries
Released album “The Richard Harris Love Album”.
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Released album “Slides”.
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1971· 2 entries
Released album “My Boy”.
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Harris starred in a BBC TV film adaptation The Snow Goose, from a screenplay by Paul Gallico
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1970· 2 entries
Released album “Cromwell”.
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Opposite Alec Guinness as King Charles I of England
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1969· 1 entry
After which Elizabeth married Rex Harrison
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1968· 3 entries
Released album “The Yard Went on Forever...”.
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After discovering that the American entertainer Liberace had arranged to buy the house but had not yet put down a deposit
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Released album “A Tramp Shining”.
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1967· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Camelot (1967).
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1963· 2 entries
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for This Sporting Life (1963).
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At the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination
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1959· 1 entry
In the film Alive and Kicking, and played the lead role in The Ginger Man in the West End in 1959
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1957· 1 entry
Harris married Elizabeth Rees-Williams, daughter of David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore
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1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-10-01.
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