Richard Harris
Actor
- Long and the Short and the Tall, The (1960)
- Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris…
- A taut WW2 drama, based on a stageplay, set around a dysfunctional British patrol caught out behind enemy lines in Burma.
Hinging on the treatment…
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris…
- The story of Captain Bligh and mutineer Fletcher Christian is orchestrated here with a star cast and many a visual flourish.
Marred, though not…
- This Sporting Life (Sporting Life, The) (1963)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts
- Richard Harris gives a star–making performance as a roguish rugby player with a no less gruelling personal life. Intense melodrama edifies the…
- Red Desert (il Deserto Rosso) (1964)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Monica Vitti, Richard Harris
- Housewife Monica Vitti embarks on a casual affair with Richard Harris following a nervous breakdown. Set amidst an oppressive industrial landscape,…
- Heroes of Telemark, The (1965)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson…
- Douglas and Harris are bickering leaders of an allied attempt to destroy a Nazi atom–bomb factory in the snowy wastes of Norway. Predictably…
- Major Dundee (1965)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Dana (Jim) Hutton…
- Important homage–critique of the Western from dir. Peckinpah, with Heston playing a misanthropic prison warden who pursues a murderous Apache…
- Bible, The (1966)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, John Huston…
- A sincere, if not entirely successful, attempt to transpose the Old Testament to the screen – from Adam to Isaac. Appropriately grand and…
- Hawaii (1966)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris…
- Lush epic of colonial expansion with Harris as an uptight missionary on a crusade to convert the natives of Hawaii, and Andrews his long suffering…
- Camelot (1967)
- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero…
- This King Arthur musical was a disastrous, expensive–looking flop. Good performances though.
- Caprice (1967)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Doris Day, Richard Harris, Michael J. Pollard
- Madcap comedy features Day as a spy for a cosmetics company who stumbles upon a drug smuggling ring. Richard Harris plays a fellow agent who may or…
- A Man Called Horse (1970)
- Dir. Elliot Silverstein
Feat. Richard Harris, Dame Judith Anderson
- Notorious yet serious–minded late western is set around the capture by Sioux of an English nobleman and his subsequent initiation into the…
- Molly Maguires, The (1970)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar…
- An ambitious drama set in the squalor of the 1870s Pennsylvania coalmine towns, and the underground group of Irish saboteurs 'The Molly Maguires' who…
- Cromwell (1970)
- Dir. Ken Hughes
Feat. Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley…
- Routine, if spectacularly staged rendition of the career of English revolutionary and King–slayer Oliver Cromwell (Harris). Unfortunately, the…
- Man in the Wilderness, The (w/ The Deadly Trackers) (1971)
- Dir. Richard Serafian
Feat. Richard Harris, John Huston, Percy Herbert…
- Double Bill Western starring Richard Harris.
THE MAN IN THE WILDERNESS is based on the same source material that inspired the Oscar–winning…
- Juggernaut (1974)
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings…
- Richard Harris leads a bomb disposal squad in a race against time to save an ocean liner and its 1200 passengers from disaster. Fine nail–biter…
- Return of a Man Called Horse, The (1976)
- Dir. Irvin Kershner
Feat. Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis
- Renowned sequel to the notorious Western, with English aristocrat Harris returning to Dakota and the Yellow Hand Sioux tribe he was inducted into.…
- Robin and Marian (1976)
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw…
- Hearty adventurism envisions Robin Hood as an aging 40–something, who upon returning from the Crusades, rekindles his rivalry with the Sheriff…
- Cassandra Crossing, The (1977)
- Dir. George P. Cosmatos
Feat. Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner…
- A few too many disasters – train crashes, plagues, terrorists etc. – make for an overcooked yet still entertaining actioner. An…
- Orca (The Killer Whale) (1977)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Bo Derek…
- A killer whale goes feral after its pregnant mate is slayed by grizzly fisherman Richard Harris in this largely maligned JAWS spinoff from the dir.…
- Gulliver's Travels (1977)
- Dir. Peter Hunt
Feat. Richard Harris, Catherine Schell
- One of the first films to combine live action and animation, this 1977 version has the gruff old Harris play the shipwrecked sailor who awakens in a…
- Golden Rendezvous (1977)
- Dir. Ashley Lazarus
Feat. Richard Harris, John Vernon, Gordon Jackson…
- Richard Harris dodges bullets in this daffy thriller about a luxury cruise liner held to ransom by terrorists. This early UNDER SIEGE provided plenty…
- Wild Geese, The (1978)
- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris…
- Trashily entertaining adventure yarn has a gaggle of middle–aged mercenaries drawn into a rescue job for a kidnapped politician in deepest…
- Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)
- Dir. John Derek
Feat. Bo Derek, Richard Harris, Miles O'Keefe
- Famously atrocious 1980s retelling of the Tarzan story, with the lone distinction of featuring a semi–clothed Bo Derek. Playing the apeman,…
- Mack the Knife (1989)
- Dir. Menahem Golan
Feat. Raul Julia, Richard Harris, Julie Walters…
- Muddled adaptation of The Threepenny Opera is notable for some pretty inept dance sequences and some rather overt mugging by some well–known…
- Field, The (1990)
- Dir. Jim Sheridan
Feat. Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean
- Another sombre gem from the MY LEFT FOOT team. Richard Harris plays an aging Irish land–lubber whose life–long devotion to cultivating…
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman…
- Clint Eastwood delivers the film of his acting and directing career with a smoulderingly dark rendering of a smart script about an aging gunfighter…
- Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
- Dir. Randa Haines
Feat. Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Sandra Bullock…
- A high–spirited, unpatronising portrait of senior citizenship, with consummate performances from two old pro's, Robert Duvall and Richard…
- Silent Tongue (1993)
- Dir. Sam Shepard
Feat. Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix
- A personal project for playwright/actor/director Shepard, this ghost story chiefly indicts the mistreatment of the native Indian. Haunting film…
- Cry, The Beloved Country (1995)
- Dir. Darrell Roodt
Feat. James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Tsholofelo Wechoemang…
- Dignified modern adaptation of Alan Paton's moving novel about a black South African priest and the wealthy father of a murdered white activist.…
- This Is the Sea (1996)
- Dir. Mary McGuckian
Feat. Richard Harris, Gabriel Byrne, Samantha Morton…
- Richard Harris introduces a sheltered Protestant lass to the nighttime excitements of Belfast. However, when IRA–man Gabriel Byrne looms on the…
- Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Smilla's Sense of Snow) (1997)
- Dir. Bille August
Feat. Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris
- From Peter Hoeg's acclaimed novel, Julia Ormond glistens in the plumb role of the frosty, feisty half–eskimo woman who over–concerns…
- To Walk with Lions (1999)
- Dir. Carl Shultz
Feat. Richard Harris, Kerry Fox
- Eventual sequel to BORN FREE, which picks–up the true life quest of conservationist/game–keeper George Adamson (Richard Harris) amid…
- Barber of Siberia, The (1999)
- Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
Feat. Julia Ormond, Richard Harris, Oleg Menshikov
- Oddly toned blend of historical epic and comedy set in late 19th century Russian, where an American inventor seeks to sell his timber harvesting…
- Gladiator (2000)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Harris…
- As good a Roman Sandal epic as ever there was, with a stoic and be–sandalled Russell Crowe refusing to carry over his loyalty to the new…
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
- Dir. Chris Columbus
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman…
- Immensely popular, this star–studded adaptation of JK Rowling’s first book thankfully captures the essence of orphan Harry’s tale of…
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
- Dir. Chris Columbus
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Kenneth Branagh, John Cleese…
- The second Harry Potter adaptation is better fun and more settled in its mingled tone of magic, fantasy and thriller.
Daniel Radcliffe again plays…
- Count of Monte Cristo, The (2002)
- Dir. Kevin Reynolds
Feat. Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Michael Wincott…
- Replicating the contemporary–yet–traditional witty action–mix of MASK OF ZORRO, this version of Alexander Dumas’ 19th century…
- Julius Caesar (2003)
- Dir. Uli Edel
Feat. Jeremy Sisto, Richard Harris, Christopher Walken…
- A television feature which presents the life, reign and demise of Rome's first emperor.
Rising from a family of minor administrators in the…