He could not find any suitable training courses, and enrolled in the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art to learn acting. He remained an ardent fan of the Munster Rugby and Young Munster teams until his death, attending many of their matches, and there are numerous stories of japes at rugby matches with actors and fellow rugby fans Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton.Īfter recovering from tuberculosis, Harris moved to Great Britain, wanting to become a director. Harris's athletic career was cut short when he caught tuberculosis in his teens. A talented rugby player, he appeared on several Munster Junior and Senior Cup teams for Crescent, and played for Garryowen. He was educated by the Jesuits at Crescent College.
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people who could afford properly grand drawing rooms, a bedroom each for the children and one for the pot, plus space for a few servants". Overdale was "a tall, elegant, early 19th-century redbrick" house with nine bedrooms, in a wealthy part of Limerick, the houses "built at the turn of the 20th century for Limerick's burgeoning middle class. 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".
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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. Naseeruddin Shah’s biggest Hollywood role has been Captain Nemo in the critical and commercial failure The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. Magneto and Gandalf actor Sir Ian McKellan was also rumoured to take on the role but he refused, citing differences he had previously has with Richard Harris. Read: This is misreporting: Naseeruddin Shah denies remark about Anupam Kher But I wouldn’t audition for it,” said Shah. I was asked if I would like to audition for it. “My agent wanted me to audition for Dumbledore’s character after Richard Harris died. The role would eventually go to Michael Gambon, who played the Hogwarts headmaster for 6 Potter films. In a Twitter chat with The Times of India, Shah revealed that after Harris died after completing work on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second film in the series, his agent wanted him to audition for the part.
Now, in a recent interview, Naseeruddin Shah revealed how he almost became ‘The Chosen One.’ Naseeruddin Shah’s biggest Hollywood role has been Captain Nemo in the critical and commercial failure The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. There were many actors in the running to play Harry Potter’s mentor Albus Dumbledore after original actor Richard Harris died.
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