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Richard Harris has died
Irish actor, 72, had been undergoing
treatment for Hodgkin’s disease
MSNBC NEWS SERVICES
LONDON, Oct. 25 — Richard Harris, the renowned actor best known to millions of young Muggles as the wizened, kind-hearted Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, has died at a London hospital, a family spokesman said Friday. Harris was ill with cancer. He had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease and was undergoing chemotherapy
THE 72-YEAR-OLD Irish actor was hospitalized in August after complaining of a severe chest infection. It was then that doctors discovered the Hodgkin’s, a cancer which attacks the body’s lymph nodes.
Harris’ condition was serious enough to warrant the filmmakers of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” to use a double to complete some of the actor’s final scenes.
Harris was for years one of the hell-raisers of British acting along with Richard Burton. He starred in such classics as “The Guns of Navarone” (1961), “Mutiny on the Bounty” (1962), “Red Desert” (1964) and the surprise, franchise-launching 1970 hit “A Man Called Horse” (he later accused Kevin Costner of swiping scenes from the film for “Dances with Wolves”). Other notable films included “This Sporting Life” (which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award nomination), the film version of the musical “Camelot” and “Robin and Marian,” in which he starred with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn.
Harris’ career floundered in the ’70s and ’80s due in part to his increasingly frequent booze binges. A notorious wild man of the ’70s, the actor was once drinking buddies with Peter O’Toole and the late Richard Burton. Harris nearly died from a cocaine overdose in 1978. (According to one newspaper report, Harris had been in intensive care five times over the years and been given last rites twice.) After his O.D., and under doctors’ orders, he gave up his hard-living ways and had remained clear and sober since.
Harris had made a comeback over the past decade. He earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for 1990’s “The Field” and followed with a key supporting role in Clint Eastwood’s 1992 western “Unforgiven.” He played Marcus Aurelius in “Gladiator” before landing the part of Dumbledore in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” the first movie about the adventures of the bespectacled boy magician. Harris reportedly signed on to play headmaster of Hogwarts after his young niece threatened never to speak to him again if he refused.
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Irish actor, 72, had been undergoing
treatment for Hodgkin’s disease
MSNBC NEWS SERVICES
LONDON, Oct. 25 — Richard Harris, the renowned actor best known to millions of young Muggles as the wizened, kind-hearted Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, has died at a London hospital, a family spokesman said Friday. Harris was ill with cancer. He had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease and was undergoing chemotherapy
THE 72-YEAR-OLD Irish actor was hospitalized in August after complaining of a severe chest infection. It was then that doctors discovered the Hodgkin’s, a cancer which attacks the body’s lymph nodes.
Harris’ condition was serious enough to warrant the filmmakers of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” to use a double to complete some of the actor’s final scenes.
Harris was for years one of the hell-raisers of British acting along with Richard Burton. He starred in such classics as “The Guns of Navarone” (1961), “Mutiny on the Bounty” (1962), “Red Desert” (1964) and the surprise, franchise-launching 1970 hit “A Man Called Horse” (he later accused Kevin Costner of swiping scenes from the film for “Dances with Wolves”). Other notable films included “This Sporting Life” (which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award nomination), the film version of the musical “Camelot” and “Robin and Marian,” in which he starred with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn.
Harris’ career floundered in the ’70s and ’80s due in part to his increasingly frequent booze binges. A notorious wild man of the ’70s, the actor was once drinking buddies with Peter O’Toole and the late Richard Burton. Harris nearly died from a cocaine overdose in 1978. (According to one newspaper report, Harris had been in intensive care five times over the years and been given last rites twice.) After his O.D., and under doctors’ orders, he gave up his hard-living ways and had remained clear and sober since.
Harris had made a comeback over the past decade. He earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for 1990’s “The Field” and followed with a key supporting role in Clint Eastwood’s 1992 western “Unforgiven.” He played Marcus Aurelius in “Gladiator” before landing the part of Dumbledore in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” the first movie about the adventures of the bespectacled boy magician. Harris reportedly signed on to play headmaster of Hogwarts after his young niece threatened never to speak to him again if he refused.
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Comments
I wonder who they'll use for the other 5 films.
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[b] [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/frown.gif[/img] It's always sad when a great actor dies.
I wonder who they'll use for the other 5 films.
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I was actually thinking that Ian McKellan would do a bang up job. Hey, from Gandalf to Dumbledore! heh
[b]There is a part of me that says Ian McKellen wouldn't want to do the part. If you have heard his interviews about LotR, I think it would be VERY hard to follow up that kind of experience with something like harry potter. That and at his age and place in his career, I don't think he probably wants to get locked into a "kiddie" role for who knows how many movies.[/b][/quote]
Wether he wants to do it or not is not relevant, he'd still do a bangup job, My daughter says that she thinks Christopher Lee would do well at it too. But there are plenty of older actors who would do a good job.
- PJH