Richard Harris - biography

“There’s more fiction in my life than in books, so I don’t bother with them.”

“Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.”

“Many kids turn to selling drugs.  It’s not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.”

“I often sit back and think, I wish I’d done that, and find out later that I already have.”

“Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.”

“Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal.  I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn’t sit half way through it.  The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.”

Richard Harris has appeared in the following films:
Alive and Kicking (1959)
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
A Terrible Beauty (1960)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
This Sporting Life (1963)
Major Dundee (1965)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Hawaii (1966)
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
Camelot (1967)
Caprice (1967)
Cromwell (1970)
The Molly Maguires (1970)
Bloomfield (1971)
Man in the Wilderness (1971)
99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
Juggernaut (1974)
Robin and Marian (1976)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
Echoes of a Summer (1976)
Golden Rendezvous (1977)
The Wild Geese (1978)
Game for Vultures (1979)
Ravagers (1979)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981)
Highpoint (1982)
Martin’s Day (1985)
Mack the Knife (1989)
King of the Wind (1990)
The Field (1990)
Patriot Games (1992)
Unforgiven (1992)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
Silent Tongue (1994)
Smilla’s Feeling for Snow (1997)
This Is the Sea (1997)
To Walk with Lions (1999)
Grizzly Falls (1999)
Gladiator (2000)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
My Kingdom (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)


Richard Harris contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
I Start Counting (1969)
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970)
Bloomfield (1971)
Stepping Out (1991)