Richard Harris

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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…

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Filmography (All Films)