<Tr> <Th> Relatives </Th> <Td> Annabelle Wallis (niece) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Signature </Th> </Tr> <P> Richard St John Harris (1 October 1930--25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer . He appeared on stage and in many films, appearing as Frank Machin in This Sporting Life, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, King Arthur in the 1967 film Camelot and the subsequent 1981 revival of the show . He played an aristocrat and prisoner in A Man Called Horse (1970), a gunfighter in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992), Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000), and Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). Harris had a number one hit in Australia and Canada and a top ten hit in the United Kingdom and United States with his 1968 recording of Jimmy Webb's song "MacArthur Park". </P> <P> Harris was born October 1, 1930, in Limerick: his siblings included Patrick Ivan (1929--2008), Noel William Michael (1932--1996), Diarmid (Dermot, 1939--1985), and William George Harris (1942--2007). His niece is actress Annabelle Wallis . </P>

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