Dear AP: Richard Harris HAS made some OTHER Movies, too . . .

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The AP has a headline, “Harry Potter Actor Hospitalized,” and the lead paragraph, “Richard Harris, who stars as Professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies, has been hospitalized following treatment for cancer, his agent said Tuesday.”

Ummm . . . Nowhere in the article does it even mention Harris’ roles in This Sporting Life, Camelot, A Man Called Horse, Guns of Navarone, or his nearly 80 other movies. I hope to goodness he doesn’t see this, it might finish him off . . . AP . . . Culturally deficient idiots . . . [mumble grumble mutter]

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Yeah, but Eve. The rest of those movies just SUCKED! You know they were bad if they are more than five years old.

(Although when he was Richard Lionheart in Robin and Marionhe was pretty good.

"I said a BUCKET of wine!)
-Rue. (kidding)

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Excellent film.
Look on the bright side, at least they didn’t mention Orca.

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Oh, come on. You know perfectly well he wouldn’t give a rat’s arse.

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And no mention of his distinguished discography?

        Slides
        MacAurthur Park
        Johnathan Livingston Seagull

Is the voice that brought to life these words of deathless prose
soon to be forever stilled?

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Perhaps the AP is saving the long list for when he dies (well in the future, godwilling).

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Guns Of Naverone???

Huh?

At the risk of a scalp scratching whoosh, are you thinking of David Niven or am I just incredibly dense?

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Okay, I finally found a reference to a speech he gave at the beginning of the movie but for the life of me I can’t remember him in this.

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Okay, I finally found a reference to a speech he gave at the beginning of the movie but for the life of me I can’t remember him in this.

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Appearing now in this thread: Force 10 from Double Postings

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Didn’t he get a lot of critical acclaim for “The Field”? That wasn’t too long ago. Hell yeah, he’s done a lot of stuff. And, having not yet seen “Harry Potter”, I’d say that it means nothing to me that he was in that film. “Camelot”, on the other hand…

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Didn’t he get a lot of critical acclaim for “The Field”? That wasn’t too long ago. Hell yeah, he’s done a lot of stuff. And, having not yet seen “Harry Potter”, I’d say that it means nothing to me that he was in that film. “Camelot”, on the other hand…

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“MacArthurs Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing’s flowing down!
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
I don’t think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again!!!”

From memory… may God have mercy on my soul. :wink:

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Probably neither. He was in the film, but he had an incredibly minor role in Guns… maybe 10 lines at the most at the beginning. As I remember he played one of the angry and battered fliers who couldn’t destroy Naverone from the air.

To be sure in size it doesn’t rank up there with his role in Unforgiven, Orca and Tarzan, the Ape Man.

TV

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Oh Eve! You know why they only included HP. They always include the most recent work an actor or actress has done, because that’s what’s most likely to be in the minds of the public, notorious for having a short attention span.

But since we’re providing Harris trivia… I think his first movie was Shake Hands with the Devil (1959). :wink:

And what about Gladiator? Or Wrestling Ernest Hemingway?

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Quite; he might prefer to read an article that mentions his current work rather than one that sounds like an obituary.

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This phenomenon is one of Roger Ebert’s Movie Cliches, often used when an actor has died, the point being that a great actor’s last film will often be, unfortunately, unremarkable. The example given was Laurence Olivier’s last movie, The Betsy.

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I loved him as English Bob in The Unforgiven, too. I liked the way he affected a nice cultured accent to impress the prairie rubes at first, but after Gene Hackman kicked his ass and EB started losing it, the cockney came out. Brilliant.

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Just a nitpick, but that wasn’t his last film. Wild Geese II was his last theatrical film, released in 1985. The Betsy came out in 1978.

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[hijack] On the way to work one morning, Mr. Singular and I were amazed to hear “and today’s celebrity birthday is James Whitmore-you know him from those Miracle-Gro commercials”.:rolleyes: [/hijack]

Even a Tony and an Oscar nod can’t buy you any respect in this pathetic short-attention-span society.