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Richard Harris - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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He made his film debut in 1958. Worldwide fame was brought to him by the film "Such is the life of sports" directed by Lindsay Anderson (1963), where he, himself a rugby player in the recent past, played the main character - the controversial athlete Frank Machin. This work earned him the 16th Cannes International Film Festival for Best Actor, BAFTA and Academy Awards nominations .
In 1964, Harris starred in one of the main roles in Michelangelo Antonioni's "Red Desert", but she was not among the best in his career. Later Antonioni admitted that he was wrong with the choice of the actor.
But the work in the film Camelot (1967), where Harris played King Arthur (Golden Globe Award), became successful, and the title role in Cromwell directed by Ken Hughes (Best Actor Award at the Moscow International Film Festival) .
Richard Harris has starred in many adventure films and westerns, including The Man Called Horse and a number of its sequels, Kassandra's Pass, Orca, The Unforgiven and others.
In 1985, Richard Harris was elevated to the knighthood.
At the end of his career, Harris appeared as Albus Dumbledore in the first two films of the epic Harry Potter. He only agreed to this role because his 10-year-old granddaughter threatened to stop talking to him.
Harris's last role was as John the Evangelist in Apocalypse.
