| Appeared as Lucius Cornelius Sulla in the TNT miniseries "Juius Caesar" (lensed 2002) |
2002 | Reprised role of Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" |
2002 | Co-starred in the remake of "The Count of Monte Cristo" |
2001 | Played the benevolant wizard Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" |
2001 | Thanks to digital technology, played the ghost of Hamlet's father in a New Jersey Shakespeare Festival staging of "Hamlet", starring son Jared Harris |
2000 | Starred in film adaptation of John Steinbeck's "The Pearl" (unreleased) |
2000 | Played aged, powerful head of a criminal dynasty in "My Kingdom" |
2000 | Co-starred as the benevolent Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in the OScar-winning film "Gladiator" |
1999 | Appeared as "Old Harry," the elder version of the lead character, in "Grizzly Falls" |
1999 | Starred as George Adamson in "To Walk with Lions" |
1997 | Cast as Dom Frollo in TNT production of "The Hunchback" |
1997 | Appeared as Andreas Tork in "Smilla's Sense of Snow" |
1997 | Essayed an aging Irish gangster in "Trojan Eddie" |
1995 | Teamed with James Earl Jones in the remake of "Cry, the Beloved Country" |
1992 | Played English Bob in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" |
1990 | Film comeback, "The Field" |
1990 | Made London stage comeback with Pirandello's "Henry IV" in London; first appearance in a straight drama in London's West End since the 1963 production of Gogol's "Diary of a Madman" |
| Toured in stage production of "Camelot" when original star Richard Burton became ill; was supposed to spend eight weeks finishing up tour, but ultimately performed 20-25 weeks a year for five years; show took in over $92 million during its five years with Harris |
1982 | Reprised film role of King Arthur in "Camelot" in an HBO TV production |
1982 | Overcame alcoholism |
1978 | Overdosed on cocaine; rushed to intensive care unit of Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles |
1976 | Executive produced two films: "Echoes of a Summer/The Last Castle" and the sequel film, "Return of a Man Called Horse"; starred in both, and wrote and performed the song "The Last Castle" in the former |
1972 | Film directing debut, "Bloomfield" (also co-wrote and starred) |
1968 | Recorded hit song, "MacArthur's Park" |
1964 | First foreign-language film, "Red Desert" |
1963 | First leading role, "This Sporting Life" |
1961 | Played largest screen roles to date (second and third leads) in "The Long and the Short and the Tall" and "Mutiny on the Bounty" |
1960 | Earliest US TV work includes a supporting role in an NBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Victory" |
1959 | Played first leading role on the London stage in "The Ginger Man" |
1958 | Toured Eastern Europe and Russia in a production of "Macbeth" (date approximate) |
1958 | Returned to the London stage in "Man, Beast and Virtue" |
1958 | Film debut in "Alive and Kicking" |
1957 | Made English TV debut in "The Iron Harp" |
1956 | Appeared in the London stage production of "A View from the Bridge" |
1956 | Produced and directed a stage production of "Winter Journey" |
1956 | West End stage debut in Joan Littlewood's production of "The Quare Fellow" at the Royal Stratford |
