• Name: Richard Harris
  
• Birth Name: Richard St. John Harris
  
• Height: 6' 1"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: Irish
  
• Birth Date: October 1, 1930
  
• Birth Place: Limerick, Ireland
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts
  
• Place of Death: London, England, UK.
  
• Death Date: October 25, 2002
  
• Death Cause: hodgkin's disease
  
• Husband/Wife: Ann Turkel (actress; born in 1956; married in 1974; divorced in 1981), Elizabeth Rees (married in 1957; divorced in 1974)
  
• Son: Damian (director), Jared and Jamie Harris
  

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• "I'm not interested in reputation or immortality or things like that. I genuinely don't care."
• “I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.”
• "Jesus is just a word I use to swear with"
• "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"

• British Independent Film Awards: Richard Harris Award (2002)
• Empire Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)
• European Film Awards: Life Achievement Award (2000)
• Wine Country Film Festival: Lifetime Achievement Award (2000)
• Western Heritage Awards: Bronze Wrangler - Theatrical Motion Picture, UNFORGIVEN (1993)
• Moscow International Film Festival: Best Actor, CROMWELL (1971)
• Western Heritage Awards: Bronze Wrangler - Theatrical Motion Picture, A MAN CALLED HORSE (1971)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role-Musical or Comedy, CAMELOT (1967)
• Cannes Film Festival: Best Actor, THIS SPORTING LIFE (1963)

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