Miss Thing Richard Harris

I just watched The Cassandra Crossing. Camp masterpiece!

What do we know about Richard Harris? Why would he do a movie like Juggernaut? Who’s had him? Is he in on the joke?

He left a cake out … in the rain

Spring was never waiting for us, gurl.

John Phillip Law was hot as shit in The Cassandra Crossing.

But it has so much more to recommend it!

r1- I went looking for it not too long ago, Bootsy...to no avail.

He played that queen Dumbledore just for the huge kaftan

Who was fucking him in his prime??

Heavy drinker and trouble maker, actually forgot the words during a Camelot performance - I'm glad he survived and kept acting, but he was in some craptastic movies, e.g., Caprice, Juggernaut and the Cassandra Crossing. Pierce Brosnan's first wife, Sandra (Cassandra), had been married to Dermot Harris, Richard's brother. I only learned that from reading coverage of her funeral, which Richard Harris attended.

The wedding gown in Camelot was made to shimmer by sewing thousands of pumpkin seeds onto the exterior.

I found that quite clever when I read it.

The Cassandra Crossing! It's not safe!

Yes, he forgot the words during a Camelot performance and the cast kept mum, wouldn't help him because he was such an asshole. They just stared at him and watched him try to deal with it.

I saw it when it came out, r11. I enjoyed it.

Probably.

I think his son, Jared, is a good actor.

I can’t get over Miss Thing’s hair in OP’s photo.

I looked at photos of him when young. He was never particularly good looking.

[quote] John Phillip Law was hot as shit

He was a man called horsehung.

[quote] The wedding gown in Camelot was made to shimmer by sewing thousands of pumpkin seeds

It created a short fashion with hippies making necklaces of pumpkin seeds rather than those Pooker shells.

1. Drunkard.

2. Physically unappealing.

3. Appeared too frequently in rubbish.

4. Died an empty husk.

As a child, I would tend to mix him up with Richard Attenborough. Thought they were the same bloke for years.

Even though I'm a cunt, I did it better...

Richard Harris could 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 have carried through this scene like Richard Attenborough

He was good in that spaghetti western

Sorry I meant Unforgiven.

Someone was spot on here earlier when they listed "Caprice" as awful. He starred opposite Doris Day and, putting aside her performance, I actually felt sorry for her as an actress in that she had to try to make something out of a supposed mutual attraction (completely nonexistent) between her and the Richard Harris character. He was so flat in that role and had the sexual and general charisma of a used tissue! And that dreadful hairpiece! Good Goddess!

However, when Harris had everything going on all cylinders, as was the case in the 1962 production of The Bounty, he could carry his role well and he thusly added to the success of the picture. Harris had a spellbinding few minutes in which he ably went under the lash. HOT!

Yes R29 but who doesn't spellbind under the leash? That scene goes to Trevor Howard, as in fact does most of the picture.

His son Jared is ugly hot.

I liked him in “Hawaii” as Julie Andrews old boyfriend who went to sea and she didn’t wait for him and married fairly repulsive Rec Hale - Richard Harris tried to get her back but she stayed with her wet blanket of a husband

Not sure where this "Miss Thing" is coming from.....he was certainly famous as a drunk and an erratic actor who could, sometimes, be effective. Are there gay rumors out there that I don't know about???

R33 You can'r stop sozzled eldergays from their silly wishful thinking. They also think Randy Scott suffered 40 years of self-hate and loneliness because his flatmate Archie rejected him back in Malibu in 1938.

I get him confused with Peter O’Toole.

^ Both of them were alcoholics.

They had liquor flowing in their veins, arteries and brains. They couldn't get through the day without that mental jab.

I’ve only seen him in the Harry Potter movies and Orca. Orca was a Jaws knockoff, but it scared me more than Jaws ever did. Gave me a life long fear of whales. Thanks, Richard Harris!

Actually (30), the sad truth is that many men who should or could be "spellbinding under the lash", fail to measure up. Chalk that fact up to the problems of bad direction, poor acting, poor photography or lack of attention to detail which, via many combinations, have far too often ruined a flogging scene.

Add in the issue of men who just shouldn't be seen stripped down unfortunately being the subject of such punishment and you've got the situation of what should be "spellbinding" instead too often turning out to be dick-wilting.

Good ol, Dick (clinking her lighter).

He like to drink well enough...he just couldn't hold it...if you know what I mean.

If Dick Harris were alive today he'd be on Only Fans doing jerk-off videos.

I wanted him with Franco Nero.

My mom had a crush on his after seeing him in This Sporting Life, a British 'kitchen sink' drama of the early 1960s. I believe that was the film that made him a star. Basically he made a ton of crap films during the 1970s and 80s because he was a raging alcoholic. He got his drinking 'under control' and had a comeback in Jim Sheridan's The Field for which he was nominated for an Oscar. It was a terific performance and he was pretty much in A list projects for the rest of his life, including the HP series.

[quote] This Sporting Life

People assumed that he represented the butch young working class of Modern Britain. He never displayed any character acting skills at all from 1960 until his death.

He looked bored, uncomfortable in Camelot as though the king was in constant pain from some unexplained malady. Most astute observers agreed Vanessa was much more regal. She could have played King Arthur with ease.

I wish Dusty Springfield had been given "MacArthur Park" instead of Richard Harris. Instead, she sang "Magic Garden," which isn't much good.

I love the story that as Richard Harris was wheeled out on a gurney through the lobby of a hotel, he passed the restaurant and shouted in: "It was the fish!"

He started with alcohol. He spent a decade on hallucinogens.

And then endured his last half-century on alcohol.

He was a hell raiser, not a terribly witty one but he was good on chat shows. Though nothing compared to the relatively handsome but constantly sozzled Oliver Reed

Richard was married to a famous 1970s model, Ann Turkel.

I sat behind them once at Serendipity, this was years after they divorced, they remained friends. Richard was so loud, Ann kept laughing and saying "Richard, keep it down." Across from them, Arlene Dahl was sitting alone at a table with her Tarot cards. It was quite a scene. Unfortunately, this was pre-cells and no one was taking photos.

Arlene gave Richard such a look of disgust, it was hilarious. Then, a busboy dropped a small bucket of dirty water in front of Arlene's table. What a weird afternoon!

R24 You weren't a perceptive child.

These two Richards were polar opposites in appearance, politics, nationality, mental attitudes and in vices.

Oliver Reed looked like a bulldog.

R24 David is the cute 1. I know what you mean tho. Richard Harris is my type but the ETOH is a killer for sexy times. I’m just checking this thread to see if any1 dealt with him. ;)

[quote] any1 dealt with him.

I dealt with him at R22. I dealt with him and disposed of him.

Didn't Richard Harris die during "Gladiator", and they had to use special effect tricks to complete his scenes?

Yes, R53, they used his corpse in 3 scenes.

Of course, others said he was pickled and brain-dead for his last decade.

Oliver Reed died in Gladiator, no?

I always thought Harris had a mean, witch face.

An unhappy, drunkard's face.

Just started watching 'The Crown' again, and forgot that Jared Harris played King George, Queen Elizabeth's father.

Yeah it was Oliver Reed who was in Gladiator, not Harris

Rumored to have sent Rex Reed a full frontal shot of the Harris goods which were reported to be way above average.

Rex had criticized "A Man Called Horse" and apparently made a passing reference to the Harris genitalia which did not hang well with Dick.

I have a crush on his son Jared (Mad Men, The Terror, Chernobyl)

Oliver Reed is hawt af, even as a fatty!!

Dave Thomas got his vocal tics down.

^ Wow! that Peter O'Tule does a very accurate imitation of Peter O'Toole's painful ranting.

Wow, I never realized how much I miss Second City, that clip was hilarious.

Catherine O'Hara as Kate Hepburn was spot on.

r64, that was hysterical, thank you so much.

Off topic, but it reminded me of of something I read on the DL about Burton insulting Mary Ure, saying what a terrible actress she was, and insinuating it was only her looks that gave her a career - I always thought he resented her for probably outclassing him in the film adaption of 'Look Back In Anger', I haven't even seen it yet, but just from the trailer he comes across as his second city character while Ure is totally natural and ahead of her time, always thought she got a harsh deal.

with Dame Sybil Thorndike

^ Why was Dame Sybil Thorndike there?

She wasn't there to sell a movie. She wasn't appearing on Broadway.

I think it was one of Cavett's shows in London, he probably just asked people on who he personally wanted to chat to

Harris wasn't a fan of Oliver Reed or Marlon Brando

Well, we've seen before, R71, that Brando was going insane in that movie in which they appeared together.

see post 50.—

OT, Janis Joplin claimed to have fucked Dick Cavett, she claimed he had a big dick. Not sure if Janis was joking.

[quote] Janis Joplin claimed to have fucked Dick Cavett,

What a repellant sight.

She used a dildo, no doubt.

I'd go see a drag queen who called herself "Cassandra Crossing."

[quote] I just watched The Cassandra Crossing. Camp masterpiece! Is he in on the joke?

No.

Drunkards have no perception of where they are what they're doing. The brains swell inside their skull and their five senses— eyesight, hearing, taste, touch and smell— go haywire.

The five senses transmit nonsense to their swollen brains.

Wow, he owned the rights to [italic]Camelot[/italic].

R73, Dick Cavett has hinted that it was true.

R60, Harris and Rex had a near physical altercation at a Hollywood party.

Jerry Orbach’s wife poured a drink over Rex’s head in a NYC restaurant after he had criticized Jerry’s performance in Chicago.

I'd love to see Golden Rendezvous (1977) with Harris and Ann Turkel which I missed when it played back in cinemas.

It has not appeared on DVD/Blu Ray due to some legal issues.

Richard Harris must have needed the money (badly!!) when he appeared in Tarzan The Ape Man. And the real humiliation is when had had to take second billing to that fabled actress Bo Derek. It may have been the nadir of his film career.

Didn't he pull his pants down and bare his boney white arse in that?

R82 This young gentleman was the saving grace of that movie.

^ He bears his buxomly, bare breasts as proud as lion.

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