Remembering Richard Harris on his birthday 🎂
📷 John Stoddart, 1990
"I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief, wrath deeply, like an Irishman."
Richard Harris on the set of Ridley Scott's Gladiator
A beautiful portrait by Jaap Buitendijk, 2000
Richard Harris at the opening night of Camelot in New York
📷 Elliott Landy, 1968
Hey! Isn't that John Wayne?
A superb portrait of Richard Harris by Nigel Parry
Parry remembers the shoot:
"I rode down on my motorcycle & it rained the whole of the way down. I only had one light that was left working because all of my lights got wet."
Remembering Richard Harris on his birthday 🎂
A scene from the revival tour of Camelot
📷 Martha Swope, St. Louis, 1986
@NYPL digital collection
He got to wear lots of crowns in his career.
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