Richard Harris
Richard Harris is known for Sanctum (2011), Thai Cave Rescue (2022) and The Rescue (2021).
Richard Harris
Richard Harris is an actor and writer, known for The Bid (2021).
Richard Harris
Richard St John Harris was born on October 1, 1930 in Limerick, Ireland, to a farming family, one of nine children born to Mildred Josephine (nee Harty) and Ivan John Harris. He attended Crescent College, a Jesuit school, and was an excellent rugby player, with a strong passion for literature. Unfortunately, a bout of tuberculosis as a teenager ended his aspirations to a rugby career, but he became fascinated with the theater and skipped a local dance one night to attend a performance of "Henry IV". He was hooked and went on to learn his craft at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), then spent several years in stage productions. He debuted on screen in Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) and quickly scored regular work in films, including The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959), A Terrible Beauty (1960) and a good role as a frustrated Australian bomber pilot in The Guns of Navarone (1961). However, his breakthrough performance was as the quintessential "angry young man" in the sensational drama This Sporting Life (1963), which scored him an Oscar nomination. He then appeared in the WW II commando tale The Heroes of Telemark (1965) and in the Sam Peckinpah-directed western Major Dundee (1965). He next showed up in Hawaii (1966) and played King Arthur in Camelot (1967), a lackluster adaptation of the famous Broadway play. Better performances followed, among them a role as a reluctant police informer in The Molly Maguires (1970) alongside Sir Sean Connery. Harris took the lead role in the violent western A Man Called Horse (1970), which became something of a cult film and spawned two sequels. As the 1970s progressed, Harris continued to appear regularly on screen; however, the quality of the scripts varied from above average to woeful. His credits during this period included directing himself as an aging soccer player in Bloomfield (1970); the western The Deadly Trackers (1973); the big-budget "disaster" film Juggernaut (1974); the strangely-titled crime film 99 and 44/100% Dead! (1974); with Connery again in Robin and Marian (1976); Gulliver's Travels (1977); a part in the Jaws (1975); Orca (1977) and a nice turn as an ill-fated mercenary with Richard Burton and Roger Moore in the popular action film The Wild Geese (1978). The 1980s kicked off with Harris appearing in the silly Bo Derek vanity production Tarzan the Ape Man (1981) and the remainder of the decade had him appearing in some very forgettable productions. However, the luck of the Irish was once again to shine on Harris's career and he scored rave reviews (and another Oscar nomination) for The Field (1990). He then locked horns with Harrison Ford as an IRA sympathizer in Patriot Games (1992) and got one of his best roles as gunfighter English Bob in the Clint Eastwood western Unforgiven (1992). Harris was firmly back in vogue and rewarded his fans with more wonderful performances in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993); Cry, the Beloved Country (1995); The Great Kandinsky (1995) and This Is the Sea (1997). Further fortune came his way with a strong performance in the blockbuster Gladiator (2000) and he became known to an entirely new generation of film fans as Albus Dumbledore in the mega-successful Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). His final screen role was as "Lucius Sulla" in Julius Caesar (2002). Harris died of Hodgkin's disease, also known as Hodgkin's lymphoma, in London on October 25, 2002, aged 72.
Richard Harrison
Writer/Director and Producer of award-winning, cult feature film, The Honey Killer, which since it's release on Amazon Prime and Google Play in 2018 has become one of the most pirated and shared films on the internet in at least NINE different languages. This unknown film went 'viral' and ran at over 60m illegals hits on Google, becoming a bona fide, underground world wide hit. It is still getting over 20,000 views a month on Amazon, nearly two years after its release. It was released world wide in March 2020 on iTunes, Amazon Prime and Google Play. The follow-up screenplay, Handful of Thieves was nominated for Best International Screenplay 2018 in the Beverly Hills Film Festival and is being pitched now, 2021-2022 for a £5-6m budget. A fast moving bank heist movie set in Southern Spain that's wrapped around a love story between two master thieves, HOT evolves like a modern-day, spaghetti western style, thriller. It also has a 10 part TV series structured to run off the back of the movie. Because of the success of The Honey Killer, we are now considering a bigger budget remake in 2022 -2023, with a sequel and spin-off television series called, The Honey Killers. Richard is an accomplished filmmaker who has also Directed or Produced well over 60+ television programmes from 2001 - 2018, around the world and across a wide variety of genres and specialised in extreme locations: from the highly successful, fly-on-the-wall documentary series, GPs: Behind Closed Doors to The Only Way is Essex, Tonight with Trevor McDonald and Ian Wright in the Arctic, Sky One's highest rating documentary of the year which saw Richard take the ex-Arsenal, England footballer and TV pundit on an expedition to climb the highest mountain in the Arctic at -20 degrees, and 350 miles from civilisation. He also Wrote, Produced and Directed a two hour documentary feature film for U.S television on the New York Police Department, risking his life to film drugs raids on crack dens and a tragic shooting of two New York police officers. It was aired prime time, Saturday night across America, and was pick-of-the-day in the New York Times. Richard has won six international awards for Directing & Scriptwriting and was nominated for a seventh in 2018 for Handful of Thieves. Under his company, Razor Films, he also has a slate of award winning, screenplays from Handful of Thieves, Fast Lane to Eden, One Life To Go and A Day for Heroes.
Richard Harrison
The mighty, musclebound actor Richard Harrison was one of a slew of handsome American pectoral hunks whose 1950's career in Hollywood amounted to little more than brawny bits but, after, being lured to Italy, became a popular sword-and-sandal star of the early 1960's. Unlike many others, Harrison managed to sustain his action star status, making over 100 European/Asian films due thanks to his impulsive trek abroad. Born on May 26, 1936 in Salt Lake City, Richard relocated to sunny Southern California in his late teens where his blond, tanned, chiseled good looks (he was sometimes mistaken for handsome actor Guy Madison) landed him modeling work both on runways and in beefcake magazines such as "Body Beautiful," "Adonis" and "Physique Pictorial." It didn't take long for Richard to be noticed by Hollywood casting agents. At first cast in he-man bit roles wearing a uniform (or less), he can be obscurely seen in Jeanne Eagels (1957), his film debut starring Kim Novak, Kronos (1957) with Jeff Morrow, Too Much, Too Soon (1958) starring Dorothy Malone, South Pacific (1958), in which he can be glimpsed as a co-pilot, and Battle Flame (1959) with Scott Brady and a young Robert Blake. While filming another minor role in Master of the World (1961), he met producer James H. Nicholson's daughter, Loretta (actress Loretta Nicholson) and married her within six months. The couple produced three children. Frustrated at not being able to secure meatier roles in Hollywood, Richard jumped at the chance when offered the lead role in the peplum spectacle Il gladiatore invincibile (1961) which filmed in Europe. He wound up settling in Italy for the next two decades. His first role, of course, immediately typed him as another Steve Reeves mythological hero type and it was followed by other warriors such as Darius in I sette gladiatori (1962), Perseus in Perseo l'invincibile (1963), Glaucus in L'ultimo gladiatore (1964), Crassus in I due gladiatori (1964), Rufo in La rivolta dei pretoriani (1964) and Claudius in I giganti di Roma (1964). Once the Herculean craze waned in the mid 1960s, Richard sought other starring parts in both Italian "spaghetti" westerns (100.000 dollari per Ringo (1965), 28 minuti per 3 milioni di dollari (1967), Joko invoca Dio... e muori (1968), Anche nel west c'era una volta Dio (1968), Uno dopo l'altro (1968)) and crime/spy intrigue (Le spie uccidono a Beirut (1965), A 077, sfida ai killers (1966), Colpo maestro al servizio di Sua Maestà britannica (1967), La donna, il sesso e il superuomo (1968)). He then maintained a sturdy steadiness into the 1970's with title roles in Lo sceriffo di Rockspring (1971), Jesse & Lester - Due fratelli in un posto chiamato Trinità (1972) and L'amico del padrino (1972). As work thinned out, Richard managed to dig up work outside Italy -- with low-budget features in Hong Kong (Ma Ge Bo Luo (1975), Ba guo lian jun (1976)), Turkey (Anasinin Gozu (1974), Yankesici (1975), Sahit (1978)), Germany (Natascha - Todesgrüße aus Moskau (1977) (Natascha: The Deadly Drop)), and Yugoslavia (Alpha Beta (1974)). In the 1980's, Richard found a profitable market in Hong Kong with his series of "Ninja Master" films (as Ninja Master Gordon) in such representative actioneers as Ninja Terminator (1986), Ninja Dragon (1986), Ninja Operation: Licensed to Terminate (1987), Ninja: Silent Assassin (1987), The Ninja Showdown (1988), Ninja Powerforce (1988). Occasionally delving into writing, producing and directing as he did with Three Men on Fire (1986), Richard's status as a European action star continued with lead roles as renegade cops in both Terminal Force (1989) and Highway to Hell (1990). As he aged, he then began turning more and more to featured parts for other stars such as Dan Haggerty in The Channeler (1991) and Erik Estrada in Angel Eyes (1993). He retired by the millennium. After his divorce from Loretta, Richard married actress Maria Francesca in 1978. They had one more child. Two of Richard's sons went into film acting -- Robert Harrison and Sebastian Harrison.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison was born on March 4, 1941 in Lexington, North Carolina, USA. He is known for Pawn Stars (2009), American Restoration (2010) and Counting Cars (2012). He was married to Joanne Rhue. He died on June 25, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Richard Harry
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Richard Hart
While he had a short life and very short film career, sleekly handsome actor Richard Hart, with his dark and virile looks, demonstrated much promise in those few years, especially on Broadway and in TV's "Golden Age." It all ended quickly, however, with his sudden demise at age 35. He was born Richard Comstock Hart, in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 14, 1915, the middle child of a prominent local lawyer, Henry Clay Hart. His grandfather, Richard Comstock, was also a lawyer. Following education at the Quaker-run preparatory Moses Brown School, he majored in English and psychology upon entering Brown University. After attaining his degree, his interest changed and he took journalism classes and had a brief job at Gorham, the silver company, before pursuing acting. A summer stock job in nearby Tiverton, Rhode Island, decided things for Hart, and he moved to New York City to pursue a professional stage career. Wife (and high school sweetheart) Eugenia did not adjust to the Manhattan life style and returned to Providence with son Christopher in tow. They abruptly divorced. Following his Broadway debut in "Pillar to Post" in December of 1943, he went out on tour with Constance Bennett in "Without Love." A superb performance in a repertory production of "Dark of the Moon" led to his being cast in the Broadway version, winning a Theatre World Award in the process, and continuing on the national tour. He met second wife, theatre actress Louise Valery, during the run of the show. MGM saw the dark-haired actor with the trimmed mustache as potential leading man material after seeing his stage success, and with no film training at all, Richard was signed and given the chance to perform in three prominent movies. In Desire Me (1947) he replaced Robert Montgomery as the man who takes Robert Mitchum away from Greer Garson. In Green Dolphin Street (1947) he was the love interest of both Lana Turner and Donna Reed. And in B.F.'s Daughter (1948) he loses Barbara Stanwyck to Van Heflin. A terrible experience in Desire Me (1947) (numerous rewrites, retakes, added scenes and director changes) disillusioned Hart in pursuing career film work. Not helping was his rather diffident performances on film and a burgeoning alcohol problem. Following a dismal MGM loan-out opposite Arlene Dahl in Reign of Terror (1949) [aka The Black Book], Hart asked for a release from his contract. Returning to New York, he replaced Sam Wanamaker in the 1949 production of "Goodbye, My Fancy" and co-starred with Charlton Heston and Coleen Gray in the short-lived "Leaf and Bough", which closed the next day. He then enjoyed a major success in "The Happy Time" with Eva Gabor, Leora Dana and Claude Dauphin the following year. Hart also found a valuable medium in TV, appearing in numerous live productions of Fireside Theatre, NBC Presents, Ford Theatre Hour and Studio One. He also returned to his "Dark of the Moon" stage success on TV for a Phico-Goodyear Television Playhouse presentation and appeared in such classics as "Hedda Gabler" and "Julius Caesar" (as Marc Antony). In 1950 he became the first Ellery Queen on TV, appearing in the low-budget Dumont series "The Adventures of Ellery Queen." On January 2, 1951, Hart died suddenly of a coronary occlusion, possibly triggered by his prodigious alcohol intake. He was divorced once and estranged from his second wife at the time he died. He left a son, Christopher, from his first marriage and two daughters from his second, and there is a debate about another possible son, Richard Lee Hart, from an out-of-marriage relationship with Phyllis Buswell.
Richard Hartley
Richard Hartley is an actor, known for Say Your Prayers (2020).
Richard Harvey
Since graduating from the Royal College of Music in 1972, at the age of 18, Richard Harvey has been a ubiquitous and diverse presence on the London music scene, not only as a prolific composer and conductor but an exceptional virtuoso performer of almost 700 instruments from around the world - blown, plucked, keyed, bowed, beaten and programmed. Richard's early forays into the professional world involved performing on medieval and Renaissance-era instruments with early music ensemble Musica Reservata, and his own progressive rock and folk band, Gryphon, in which he toured three continents, recorded five albums, and played over 30 different instruments. Richard has come a long way since starting recorder lessons at the age of four, progressing via a stint as first clarinet with the British Youth Symphony Orchestra to recording for and collaborating with major contemporary composers including John Williams, Stanley Myers, Harry Gregson-Williams, Sir Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello and many others. Most recently Richard and long term collaborator and Hollywood legend Hans Zimmer co-composed the score for Onyx's 2016 production 'The Little Prince', an enchanting animation directed by Mark Osborne. Prior to this, Richard conducted the orchestra for Hans Zimmer's 2014 'Interstellar', an adventure sci-fi starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway. Richard's collaborations continued in 2014 with Bill Conran with a co-composition for the score of horror film, 'Curse of the Pheonix'. Working with celebrated composer Maurice Jarre in the mid 1970s fuelled Richard's rich career as a sought-after film composer, and he has scored over 70 television and film projects to date, from British television series, documentaries and feature length TV films, to major Hollywood movies. He contributed the much-loved Kyrie for the Magdalene to Hans Zimmer's score for the smash hit "The Da Vinci Code" (2006). Richard is also an important presence in the Thai film industry, composing for four of the biggest movies ever produced in Thailand, including the epic "King Naresuan" (Part I, 2006, Part II, 2007, and Part IV, 2011). He was honoured with a Royal invitation to work closely with executive producer Francis Ford Coppola and score the major historic movie "Suriyothai", now recognised as a classic of the Thai cinema. In addition, he has given concerts for Her Majesty the Queen and Princess Sirindhorn, and is proud to be co-founder of the ROSL/Conrad "Young Musician of Thailand" awards. Setting scenes, creating atmosphere, pacing action and defining character, Richard has added an extra dimension to the visual medium. His talent as a composer of film and television music has been recognised with a British Academy Award and four Ivor Novello nominations. His score to Borough Films' controversial and International Emmy award-winning "Death of a President" won him the International Critic's Award at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival and was nominated under "Best Score for a Documentary Film or Television Program" at the 2007 Film and TV Music Awards. In addition, Richard's skills as a multi-instrumentalist continue to be called upon for both live performances and feature films, including Disney's "The Lion King" (1994), "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (2004), "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005), and "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" (2008). His passion for musical instruments, old and new, and his collection of more than 700, which he has accumulated over thirty years of world travel, mean that he is in high demand for a fascinating range of projects. He has appeared at venues as diverse as the Royal Albert Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Madison Square Garden, Venice's Teatro La Fenice, the Phuping Palace, Chiang Mai, and St Paul's Cathedral, both as soloist and as conductor. Richard has also made several classical albums, including a Classical Record of the Year, "Italian Recorder Concertos" (1982), which remains in Gramophone Magazine's Top 100. He was commissioned to write "Concerto Antico" (1995) for classical guitar virtuoso John Williams, which has been recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and released by Sony, enjoying live performances around the world. In a further display of his musical eclecticism, together with artist and writer Ralph Steadman, Richard was commissioned to compose and conduct a major cathedral piece for the 1989 Exeter Music Festival. The result was the hugely ambitious eco-oratorio "Plague and the Moonflower", which has now been performed and experienced as a seminal work and profound statement on environmental issues in numerous English cathedrals and music festivals, even as far away as Australia, and filmed for an award-winning BBC production. In 2009 Richard was commissioned to write a concerto for the sensational recorder player, Michala Petri, which was followed by another concerto commission for renowned violist Roger Chase. His Recorder Concerto (Concerto Incantato) has now been recorded by Ms Petri and released on CD, English Recorder Concertos, alongside works by Malcolm Arnold and Gordon Jacob. Besides his professional projects, Richard runs a charity with a board of trustees made up of other UK-based professional musicians. Richard launched this ambitious new charity, the MAE Foundation (www.maefoundation.org.uk) in 2010, with the aim of bringing musical instruments and music teaching to the thousands of refugee children from Burma who live behind the wire in semi-permanent jungle camps along the Thai/Burmese border. Richard lives in Surrey, where he pursues his love of cricket, and enjoys winters in Thailand, where he pursues his love of warmth, travel and adding to his ever-growing collection of musical instruments.