![]() ![]() Harris was born on 1 October 1930, at Overdale, 8 Landsdown Villas, Ennis Road, Limerick, son of flour merchant Ivan Harris and Mildred (née Harty). ![]() He earned a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the song. Harris had a number-one singing hit in Australia, Jamaica and Canada, and a top-ten hit in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States with his 1968 recording of Jimmy Webb's song " MacArthur Park". Harris received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie nomination for his role in The Snow Goose (1971). He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his role in Pirandello's Henry IV.(1991). He reprised the role in the 1981 Broadway musical revival. He portrayed King Arthur in the 1967 film Camelot for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He gained acclaim for his role as 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), the latter of which was his final film role. Other notable roles include in The Guns of Navarone (1961), Red Desert (1964), A Man Called Horse (1970), Cromwell (1970), Unforgiven (1992), Gladiator (2000), and The Count of Monte Cristo (2002). He received two Academy Award for Best Actor nominations for his performances in This Sporting Life (1963), and The Field (1991). In 2020, he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times 's list of Ireland's greatest film actors. ![]() ![]() He received numerous accolades including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a Grammy Award. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave. I liked Creed too, much the same way, with similar reservations.Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. How not? I’m of the generation that saw the originals, back when the Force was younger.īut as critic I must draw back and say Star Wars: The Force Awakens is to the original Lucas conception as Creed is to Rocky. She’s a bit plumper and more matronly, but looks just right, given the decades, centuries, millennia, galaxies. Carrie Fischer (now Queen Leia), with whom he reconnects, has aged better. As he permits himself to be portrayed in this film, he’s a bit sallow, hollowed out, lacking the jaunty and sardonic studliness we want from him. Don’t think the same could be said of Harrison Ford. There’s a lot of narrative fuzziness in the movie, maybe to necessitate clarifying prequels, sequels, and Nyquils. What he’s doing there is not quite clear. Skipping what seems like centuries but are only decades, we find von Sydow in the opening scenes of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Max von Sydow’s knight playing chess with Death in “The Seventh Seal.” He always gets the shit job, doesn’t he, whether for Ingmar Bergman or William Friedkin, having to fend off death and demons? Jumping ahead a few decades, von Sydow plays the title character in The Exorcist. The same set is employed in Harry Potter movies.) (Worth mentioning, for those who care about such details, is that the chess set used is the unique Lewis set, composed out of whale bone and walrus tusk a thousand years ago, and found in the Outer Hebrides in the nineteenth century. (Angels of Death, you might find it useful to know, as a rule, cannot resist a bit of chess). In Bergman’s traumatically good The Seventh Seal he plays the knight, just back from the Crusades, who Death has come to scythe up, along with innumerable others, in the Black Death.ĭeath is delayed, however, when the knight challenges him to a game of chess. I remember him from his Ingmar Bergman days. Most amazing thing for me about Star Wars: The Force Awakens is that Max von Sydow lives. Max von Sydow in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” ![]()
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