# Dear AP: Richard Harris HAS made some OTHER Movies, too . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518 "2002-10-16T14:59:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/1 "2002-10-16T14:59:22Z")
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] ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/2 "2002-10-16T15:22:51Z")
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 Marion_he was pretty good. "I said a BUCKET of wine!) -Rue. (kidding) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/3 "2002-10-16T16:03:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > _ **Guns of Navarone** _ Excellent film. Look on the bright side, at least they didn’t mention _Orca_. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/4 "2002-10-16T16:05:34Z")
> [@](#): > > _Eve_ > I hope to goodness he doesn’t see this, it might finish him off . . . Oh, come on. You know perfectly well he wouldn’t give a rat’s arse. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/5 "2002-10-16T16:37:14Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/6 "2002-10-16T17:39:21Z")
Perhaps the AP is saving the long list for when he dies (well in the future, godwilling). ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/7 "2002-10-16T18:09:23Z")
Guns Of Naverone??? Huh? At the risk of a scalp scratching whoosh, are you thinking of David Niven or am I just incredibly dense? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/8 "2002-10-16T18:26:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/9 "2002-10-16T18:32:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/10 "2002-10-16T23:45:31Z")
Appearing now in this thread: Force 10 from Double Postings ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/11 "2002-10-17T06:04:59Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/12 "2002-10-17T06:10:25Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/13 "2002-10-17T06:21:24Z")
“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. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/14 "2002-10-17T12:04:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Guns Of Naverone??? > > Huh? > > At the risk of a scalp scratching whoosh, are you thinking of David Niven or am I just incredibly dense? \*\* 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 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/15 "2002-10-17T12:18:06Z")
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). 😉 And what about Gladiator? Or Wrestling Ernest Hemingway? ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/16 "2002-10-17T18:04:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Perhaps the AP is saving the long list for when he dies (well in the future, godwilling). Quite; he might prefer to read an article that mentions his current work rather than one that sounds like an obituary. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/17 "2002-10-17T19:45:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*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. \*\* 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_. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/18 "2002-10-17T21:01:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/19 "2002-10-18T12:19:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by a35362 \* > \*\* > > 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_. \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518/20 "2002-10-18T14:55:42Z")
[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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ap-richard-harris-has-made-some-other-movies-too/132518.md?page=2)