Richard Harris

Born: 1930-10-01

Richard St John Francis Harris (October 1, 1930 – October 25, 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. He appeared on stage and in many films, notably as Corrado Zeller in Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert, Frank Machin in This Sporting Life, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and as King Arthur in the 1967 film Camelot, as well as the 1981 revival of the stage musical. He played an English aristocrat captured by the Sioux in A Man Called Horse (1970), Oliver Cromwell in Cromwell (1970), an embattled Irish farmer in Jim Sheridan's The Field (which earned him a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor), English Bob in Clint Eastwood's revisionist Western Unforgiven (1992), Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000), The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) as Abbé Faria, and 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. 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". In 2020, he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.


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as Albus Dumbledore
Released: 2001-11-16

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his...

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as Albus Dumbledore
Released: 2002-11-13

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start...

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as Marcus Aurelius
Released: 2000-05-04

In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. ...

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The Count of Monte Cristo

as Abbé Faria
Released: 2002-01-23

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best...

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Unforgiven

as English Bob
Released: 1992-08-07

William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help...

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The Guns of Navarone

as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
Released: 1961-04-27

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable...

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A Man Called Horse

as John Morgan
Released: 1970-05-01

In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux...

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The Bible: In the Beginning...

as Cain
Released: 1966-09-28

Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve...

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as Paddy O'Neil
Released: 1992-06-04

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack...

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Abraham

as Abraham
Released: 1993-12-12

Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from...

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The Apocalypse

as John
Released: 2004-12-03

While Emperor Domitian persecutes the Christians, the aged apostle John has prophetic visions.

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Orca

as Captain Nolan
Released: 1977-07-22

After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain,...

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Mutiny on the Bounty

as Seaman John Mills
Released: 1962-11-08

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit....

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Tarzan the Ape Man

as James Porter
Released: 1981-08-07

The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she...

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Julius Caesar

as Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Released: 2002-12-27

Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through...

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Juggernaut

as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon
Released: 1974-09-25

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs...

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The Heroes of Telemark

as Knut Straud
Released: 1965-11-12

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist...

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Kaena: The Prophecy

as Opaz (english voice)
Released: 2003-06-04

Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the...

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The Cassandra Crossing

as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
Released: 1976-12-18

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them...

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Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Dr. Andreas Tork
Released: 1997-02-28

Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy...

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Major Dundee

as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
Released: 1965-04-07

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop...

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The Hunchback

as Dom Frollo
Released: 1997-03-16

Based on Victor Hugo's famed novel, the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre...

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The Wild Geese

as Capt. Rafer Janders
Released: 1978-06-28

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It...

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The Barber of Siberia

as Douglas McCraken
Released: 1998-11-11

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new,...

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The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

as Self
Released: 2004-06-11

A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes...

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Cromwell

as Oliver Cromwell
Released: 1970-07-16

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the...

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This Sporting Life

as Frank Machin
Released: 1963-02-07

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to...

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Robin and Marian

as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard
Released: 1976-03-11

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid...

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Hawaii

as Rafer Hoxworth
Released: 1966-10-10

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley...

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Red Desert

as Corrado Zeller
Released: 1964-09-04

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic...

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Camelot

as King Arthur
Released: 1967-10-25

The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment...

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Cry, the Beloved Country

as James Jarvis
Released: 1995-12-15

A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big...

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Man in the Wilderness

as Zachary Bass
Released: 1971-11-24

In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to...

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Caprice

as Christopher White
Released: 1967-04-18

Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula...

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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

as Jason
Released: 1981-09-19

Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is...

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The Return of a Man Called Horse

as John Morgan / Horse
Released: 1976-06-28

Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain...

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The Molly Maguires

as James McKenna
Released: 1970-02-08

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred...

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The Field

as 'Bull' McCabe
Released: 1990-09-21

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the...

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Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

as Self
Released: 2005-06-07

An in-depth look at the entire making of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Consisting of: Tale Of The...

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The Wreck of the Mary Deare

as Higgins
Released: 1959-11-17

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to...

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The Ghost of Richard Harris

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2022-08-31

A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of...

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The Deadly Trackers

as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick
Released: 1973-12-21

Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When...

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Silent Tongue

as Prescott Roe
Released: 1993-01-28

Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body...

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Shake Hands with the Devil

as Terence O'Brien
Released: 1959-06-24

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh...

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King of the Wind

as King George II
Released: 1990-05-25

In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel:...

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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

as Frank
Released: 1993-12-17

Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men...

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Strike Commando 2

as Major Vic Jenkins
Released: 1988-08-17

A commando rescues his squad leader from heroin smugglers in Burma.

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Gulliver's Travels

as Gulliver
Released: 1977-01-01

Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu...

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Ravagers

as Falk
Released: 1979-06-26

In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an...

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Highpoint

as Lewis Kinney
Released: 1982-08-20

James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them...

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The Long and the Short and the Tall

as Cpl. Johnstone
Released: 1961-02-28

Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record...

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To Walk with Lions

as George Adamson
Released: 1999-06-04

Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's...

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The Pearl

as Dr. Karl
Released: 2001-01-01

A poor Mexican diver finds a priceless pearl that will change his impoverished family's future...

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Golden Rendezvous

as John Carter
Released: 1977-12-25

Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero...

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99 and 44/100% Dead

as Harry Crown
Released: 1974-08-29

Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when...

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Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

as John Morgan - Man Called Horse
Released: 1983-01-01

Shunka Wakan, formerly Lord John, helps his Dakota son defend their tribe against gold rushers.

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Grizzly Falls

as Old Harry
Released: 1999-11-05

When a young boy is captured by a grizzly bear, he begins the most incredible journey of a...

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Echoes of a Summer

as Eugene
Released: 1976-02-06

A young girl with a terminal heart condition plans to celebrate her 12th birthday on one last...

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Bloomfield

as Eitan
Released: 1970-12-01

An aging soccer player has a part-time girlfriend, a young fan, and doubts about throwing a game.

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Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1998-02-20

Jon Stewart hosts the Sesame Street Muppets' 30 year celebration, but Elmo steps in when things...

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Alive and Kicking

as Lover
Released: 1959-07-13

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an...

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Mack the Knife

as Mr. Peachum
Released: 1989-11-01

In the 19th century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal and they decide...

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My Kingdom

as Sandeman
Released: 2001-09-10

A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand...

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A Terrible Beauty

as Sean Reilly
Released: 1960-06-17

In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England....

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The Last Word

as Danny Travis
Released: 1979-10-10

When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to...

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The Three Faces

as Robert (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
Released: 1965-02-12

Italian comedy film made of three segments directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini...

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This Is the Sea

as Old Man Jacobs
Released: 1997-09-15

The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and...

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Game for Vultures

as David Swansey
Released: 1979-06-25

The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to...

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Arthur: King of the Britons

as Presenter
Released: 2002-03-31

The legend of King Arthur is one of the most evocative stories in British mythology. We think of...

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Martin's Day

as Martin Steckert
Released: 1985-02-22

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage....

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Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

as Self
Released: 2002-09-24

Behind the scenes of Unforgiven (1992)

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The Snow Goose

as Philip Rhayadar
Released: 1971-11-15

Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose...

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The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

as uncredited
Released: 2003-10-31

Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director,...

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Hellraisers

as Self
Released: 2000-08-26

Documentary about notorious British and Irish wildmen Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Oliver Reed...

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Camelot

as King Arthur
Released: 1982-09-26

Shot live from the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, this presentation of the 1980...

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Maigret

as Jules Maigret
Released: 1988-02-22

Jules Maigret, a meticulous Parisian police detective, is a famous literary character. In this...

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Trojan Eddie

as John Power
Released: 1996-09-09

Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish...

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Savage Hearts

as Sir Roger Foxley
Released: 1995-05-20

When a beautiful mob hitwoman learns she only has six months to live, she decides to rob her...

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Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese

as Self
Released: 1978-01-01

Promotional short film about the making of the 1978 film The Wild Geese.

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Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

as Self
Released: 2001-11-19

"This is a kid who just said it. I'm the greatest - and he said it with poetry. And I don't mean...

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Exterior Day

as uncredited
Released: 2022-01-01

Inspired by a famous exchange of letters between Michelangelo Antonioni and Mark Rothko, Esterno...

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Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La

as Self
Released: 1976-01-26

A musical special promoting the then-upcoming release of the 1973 musical version of "Lost Horizon".

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...

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Honest Trailers

as Albus Dumbledore (archive footage)
First aired: 2012-02-13

Trailers that tell you the TRUTH about your favorite movies and TV shows: Honest Trailers. These...

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The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host
First aired: 1961-12-11

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...

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The Mike Douglas Show

as Self
First aired: 1961-12-11

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...

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The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1968-06-06

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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Dinah!

as Self
First aired: 1974-10-21

Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self - Singer
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

as Self
First aired: 2001-11-02

Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from...

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The Hollywood Palace

as Self - Singer
First aired: 1964-01-04

The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly...

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Bette

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-10-11

Bette is a CBS television show which premiered on October 11, 2000, and was the debut of the...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Philip Rhayadar
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Julius Caesar

as Lucius Cornelius Silla
First aired: 2003-06-29

Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through...

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Flick Flack

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-01-07

Flick Flack was a Canadian television series broadcast by Global Television Network in 1974. The...

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Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

as Self
First aired: 1993-09-05

Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with...

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Abraham

as Abraham
First aired: 1994-04-03

The life of Abraham, the most tested servant of God and the father of Judaism, spanning from the...

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Julius Cäsar

as Sulla
First aired: 2002-12-27

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