Richard Harris: RIP

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> BREAKING NEWS Award-winning British actor Richard Harris dies at age 72. Details to come.

This has not been a good day.

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I was figuring he wasn't going to get very far in the Harry Potter film sequence, frankly. RIP, though I admit I mostly know him as almost a stereotype of himself, as a classic British ACTOR in an almost Richard Burton vein. Can somebody detail what the real winners he did are?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i liked him. im sad.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Was that him (the actor's name is "Richard Harris") in the opening of Guns of Navarone (as the soldier telling Gregory Peck and his commander how hopeless the mission is)? It doesn't look like how I remember him...

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm very saddened at the news, I was talking about him today in fact. I didn't realise he was sick. You're right about the Richard Burton connection though Ned, he was a close friend and drinking buddy of Burtons and generally from the same school of acting. He was an Irish actor though, not British and played the wonderful oscar-nominated Bull McCabe role in John B. Keane's "The Field"

― Saskia, Friday, 25 October 2002 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

noooo! :(

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 25 October 2002 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Nice to see Paul Morley pay tribute on 'Late Review' (Kirsty's husky voice = rowr!), basically saying: even in bad films he was watchable, cos the man didnae give a fuck, and "his death scene in 'Tarzan the Ape Man' is one of the greatest".
'This Sporting Life', 'Man Called Horse', 'The Wild Geese', that film where he played a safe cracker, 'Orca: Killer Whale', 'Gladiator', slagging Micheal Caine off, boozing and not dying till dead old: all Ace!

― DavidM (DavidM), Saturday, 26 October 2002 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Bummer.

Don't forget also his two excellent albums with Jimmy Webb - A Tramp Shining (which had "MacArthur Park" on it) and The Yard Went On Forever.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 26 October 2002 08:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I liked him in Unforgiven.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 26 October 2002 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Dave Thomas as RH is something to behold here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk0vx4BWZe8

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 March 2010 13:30 (ten years ago) link

Haven't clicked yet. Is that from "The Man Who Would Be King Of The Popes"?

― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 March 2010 14:15 (ten years ago) link

the whole thing

AH-HA-HA-HA

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 March 2010 14:16 (ten years ago) link

RIP Richard Harris :(

― JTS, Saturday, 27 March 2010 15:19 (ten years ago) link

In my mind's ear I can still hear him (as it were) singing:

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark,
All the sweet green icing flo-wing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
I don't think that I can take it,
'Cuz it took so long to bake it,
And I'll never have that recipe aga-in.
OH, NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

― Aimless, Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:01 (ten years ago) link

my son discovered the awe & mystery of that song through SCTV. he thinks the original is the funniest thing ever and refuses to believe it was a huge hit played on the radio.

richard harris you have a big fan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCjcax_DGAI

― the mighty the mighty BOHANNON (m coleman), Saturday, 27 March 2010 20:54 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

Richard Harris statue in Thomas St. in Limerick is godawful! Its up there with the MJ Craven Cottage one for me for sheer wretchedness. The dude looks like a constiapted badger.....

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/71035_122816664443486_5472411_n.jpg

http://www.fotothing.com/photos/f44/f443721338fe4006f778adf78b40b297.jpg

― Michael B, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:31 (nine years ago) link

http://blog.hubze.com/assets/burger-king1.png

― smelly's wife (rustic italian flatbread), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:32 (nine years ago) link

LOL

― Michael B, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:33 (nine years ago) link

four years pass...

broad as hell and very funny in Juggernaut. his exit line in his big confrontation scene with Omar Sharif is priceless (and a wink at his reputation).

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:58 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/eight-security-guards-injured-in-attack-on-house-at-centre-of-eviction-row-1.3733011?mode=amp

for obvious reasons

― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:36 (two years ago) link

two years pass...

Richard Harris describes how he once dealt with a British actor who didn't fancy working with the Irish... pic.twitter.com/ABzUGCDOlE
— We, The Irish (@wetheirishpod) January 11, 2021

― calzino, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 18:26 (one week ago) link

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