The author | Hayashi Ono
He is a rebel in real life, and this is also the role he plays repeatedly on the screen...
The Wild Geese (1978)
Whether it is Raven in "Wild Goose Death Squad" or "Gun Buren" doctor in "Cassandra Bridge", he has been loved by Chinese audiences. These two characters seem to be tailor-made for Richard Harris, the same cleverness, the same cynicism, the same cold eyes to the world laughing and scolding.
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Richard's big mouth, Hollywood stars one by one, whose face is not given.
He said Marlon Brando was a jerk and Julie Andrews was particularly annoying.
Why did Tom Cruise attend the premiere with a bottle of Evian mineral water instead of champagne? Hollywood has fallen.
It's not enough, it's basically endless—" I hate Hollywood elitism, their stars have private jets, bodyguards, nutritionists and beauticians, and that Tom Cruise, who hired eight 6ft 10-inch bodyguards, what was he trying to say?!" Did he want to show that he was a dwarf? ”
(Note: 6 feet 10 inches is equivalent to 2.08 meters)
Tom Cruise also didn't respond, when he didn't hear. This old man won the Cannes film emperor for the first time, and the status of the jianghu is still a little.
The reason why he will only drink and scold people when he is old, and pat the table and chair is because the old man has a dark wound in his heart, and he probably can't be cured for a lifetime, and Hollywood knows it.
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This photo can very well represent the personality of the old man Zhang Crazy
"Wild Goose Death Squad" Sergeant Major Jack Watson is really high, and he has never set foot in Hollywood for half a step in his life. The invitation does not go, and the warm invitation does not go.
Richard Harris was different, he made a lot of money there, won a lot of awards, made a lot of friends, but he excreted there.
Richard Harris's relationship with Hollywood is still quite deep, basically intertwined.
His younger brother, Dermott Harris, was a Hollywood producer, and in 1976 the brothers collaborated on a film, Echoes of Summer, in which the protagonist was a toddler.
You can recognize who this kid is!
Echoes of a Summer (1976)
To give you a little hint, a closer look -
Jodie Foster in Echoes of a Summer（1976）
Looks familiar, right? This is Judy Foster when she was fourteen.
Yes, that's right, the One in The Silence.
Richard's younger brother was very capable, and his daughter-in-law Cassandra Harris was even more famous, and she later married 007 Brosnan.
Brusnan's deceased wife Cassandra Harris (December 15, 1948 – December 28, 1991)
Brosnan starred with his wife in the fifth episode of the first season of The Legend of Steele
Brosnan's virtues are often celebrated, and after his wife's death from ovarian cancer, he struggled to raise a pair of children she had with her ex-husband.
Later, the little girl died of the same cancer as her mother, and the huge medical expenses were all paid by her stepfather Brosnan.
The sons and daughters were the nephews and nieces of Richard Harris.
Except for Brosnan, this photo is surnamed Harris
Harris was probably envious of Brosnan's marriage, brosnan was dead with his wife, and he was separated from his wife.
Richard Harris was photographed with his former daughter-in-law Cassandra, who died shortly after
A long time ago, Harris also had a happy family with three lovely children.
At that time, he also believed in some things, art, ideals, careers, friendships, love, family affection... The world is vast and the world is worth it.
Not as severely disillusioned as it was later.
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Richard Harris was born on 1 October 1930 in Limerick County, Ireland, to a farming family of nine siblings.
It is a remote town with a population of less than 270,000 to date, and "Limerick" means "barren swamp" in Irish.
Harris's alma mater, NEW MOON Academy, Limerick
Although his family was poor, when he was in high school, he became a well-known rugby expert in the county. Nowadays, people in my hometown are still talking about his superior wrestling technique.
As a child, Harris had fantasies about growing up to be a professional football player, escaping the backcountry and changing classes, but as a teenager, a tuberculosis shattered his dreams.
He then became fascinated by theater and literature, and as long as he could leave his hometown, he could walk barefoot through shards of glass.
Finally, one day, he got a chance to study at the London School of Drama (Lamda).
London School of Music and Drama
Harris was a restless student when he was in school, and once he used his few savings to organize a rehearsal of a play for his classmates, which resulted in a performance that cost him everything he had, so he slept in the coal kiln for six weeks.
After graduation, Harris officially began his stage career, and his restless personality became more and more prominent, and he repeatedly provoked trouble.
Once, the theater was preparing to stage "Macbeth", and during the rehearsal, the male lead actor was arrogant and rude, constantly squeezing the newcomer Harris, and Harris decided to clean him up.
Finally, one day, "Macbeth" officially premiered, and the scene was warm and crowded. When the plot reaches its climax, the male protagonist Macbeth asks, "What happened to the crying?" Hiden, played by Harris, was supposed to reply: "Your Majesty, it is the Queen who is dead." But he said in a strange tone, "Oh my dear Majesty, the Queen is asleep and will be up in ten minutes." ”
Then Macbeth was blindfolded, not knowing how to get down.
Then, there was a burst of laughter in the audience.
Then, the whole show was ruined.
Harris was then fired from the theater and fired instantly!
It stands to reason that Harris's stage career was no longer followed, but he quickly found a new job with talent and talent and reappeared on the London stage. At that time, the young Harris had a simple idea - I had not played Hamlet yet, and I could not give up.
In fact, he has never played this role in his life.
In the spring of 1956, Harris met a girl at a party who had no profession and was a "socialite", and people called her "Welsh socialite" behind her back.
The girl, Elizabeth Rees, was six years younger than Harris, and she was brilliant and had a prominent family background.
Elizabeth Rees (born 1 May 1936 in Wales, England)
Elizabeth's father was the politician David Rees-Williams, the first Baron Ogmore, one of the prosecutors of the Nuremberg Trials in 1945 and a British Cabinet Secretary from 1951 to 1954.
Nuremberg Trials (21 November 1945 – 1 October 1946)
At that time, Harris was still a small character with no name, running a small dragon suit in various Shakespearean plays, but Elizabeth was deeply attracted to him.
Soon the young couple fell in love, and on February 9, 1957, the two were officially married. Twenty-seven-year-old Harris became the son-in-law of a cabinet minister.
On August 2, 1958, Elizabeth gave birth to their first son, Damien Harris, who bore him two more baby boys in the following years.
These three little babies all grew up in Hollywood, and it was not easy to live under the fame of their fathers for many years.
If Harris hadn't been robbing Hollywood, he wouldn't have shined around the world; if Harris hadn't been in Hollywood, the family wouldn't have dispersed so quickly.
In the early sixties, Harris began to emerge. First played a small role in the crowded "Cannon of Navalon", ranking twenty-fifth on the cast list, although it was a British film, Harris managed to attract hollywood attention.
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Soon, Harris appeared in the film "Rebel Blood" starring Marlon Brando.
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
In order to play this small role, Harris had not bathed for half a month, and his body smelled of salted fish, and he ran to the producers with the crew to complain, and the producers who had been upset by Marlon Brando came to Harris and asked him "Why?" ”
Harris replied solemnly, "Because I'm a method actor." ”
It is similar to Stephen Chow's "Actually I am an actor".
The producers had a good impression of him and knew he was a hard-working lad. Because when he came to the interview, he could memorize all the lines of Marlon Brando in "Docks" on the spot.
Harris, who was very artful at that time, quickly got a high return, and then he starred in "Such a Sporting Career", which was a rugby version of Hamlet.
This is the first time he has been a protagonist, and he has come up with a Cannes film emperor! Plus an Oscar nomination for Best.
This Sporting Life (1963) The man in the middle of a black suit looks familiar?
Harris has become a hot commodity for various international famous directors, and then he hit the iron while it was hot, replacing Alain Delon, starring in the famous Italian director Antonioni's "Red Desert", the film won the Venice Golden Lion Award in one fell swoop, harris finally ushered in the peak of his career.
25th Venice Golden Lion Award-winning film Deserto Rosso (1964)
Harris felt that he was finally worthy of a noble wife, but elizabeth had a more delicate psychological activity, and he did not catch half a point.
Hollywood's world of flowers and flowers, alone in the empty boudoir, is too wasteful.
In February 1971, actress Rachel Roberts divorced and in pain, Harris called to offer condolences.
The two worked together on "Such a Sporting Career", in which Rachel played a widow who was adored by the male protagonist.
The actress is well known to Chinese audiences, and she played Pip's vulgar snobbish sister in "Lone Star Blood and Tears".
Great Expectations (1974)
He also played the nervous, Princess Rovna's German maid in Murder on the Orient Express.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Apparently, Harris's comfort did not play much, and many years later, Rachel, who had been unable to walk out of the emotional wounds for a long time, committed suicide by poisoning.
However, when they were on the phone that year, neither of them thought that the negative heart of the abandoned Rachel would marry whom next?
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My Fair Lady (1964)
Rex Harrison has been careful to maintain his social image, and after winning the Oscar for Best Actor for "The Lady", he had to dress up as Professor Higgins on any occasion.
So much so that the United States has a hat called "Higgins".
However, Hollywood colleagues did not buy his account and privately called him "Little White Face Rex". He was satisfied with the young girl on the road who asked for autographs, but if an old lady rushed up, he would not hesitate to call the other party "to die"!
His affair account is basically a bad account, not to mention the six marriages before and after, at least two actresses died at his hands.
In the late 1940s, When Rex cheated on actress Carol Landis and refused to honor her promise to divorce her second wife, Carol was disappointed and took plenty of sleeping pills after having her last lunch with Rex. The next morning, when Rex stepped into Carroll's boudoir again, all he saw was a cold, stiff corpse on the bed.
Carole Landis (1 January 1919 – 5 July 1948)
When starring in "The Lady", Warner Bros. boss Jack Warner was very jealous of his reputation, saying that he was too old to play him as the male lead. Later, I didn't know which high person to dial - Rex was handsome and affectionate, and could make women of different ages pay for tickets to enter the theater.
The actress we just mentioned, Rachel Roberts, was his fourth wife, and Rachel died rather tragically.
Rachel did not die immediately after taking the poison, and the hallucinations caused by the drug made her walk around the house like a wandering ghost, eventually smashing a huge glass screen. When her body was found by the gardener the next morning, the hall was littered with broken pieces of glass, and Rachel's pajamas were cut into strips.
Rex never felt that he was bad, and he said to people on different occasions several times: "Wife is like a gold-rimmed stock, the more you have, the bigger the dividend." ”
Get rid of Rachel, and the girl Rex marries next is definitely an oil stock.
If Rex's first meeting with Elizabeth Reese is still related to "So Athletic Career".
On April 13, 1964, at the 36th Academy Awards, Rex and Harris competed for Best Actor at the same time, and Rex's work that year was still Caesar of Cleopatra.
Although the two were defeated at the same time, at this awards party, Rex met Harris's wife, Elizabeth Reese, for the first time.
Rex and his wife Rachel at the 37th Academy Awards
At the same time, Elizabeth also noticed that this tall, handsome, charismatic actor, with her "Welsh socialite" superb wrist, can only say that what she does not have, is what she does not want.
Finally, one day, Elizabeth walked up to her husband, Harris, and flicked her lips, "Let's break up." ”
She then remarried Rex with her three sons, and Rex has since gained a social identity — the stepfather of Harris's three sons.
Raven's woman in Wild Goose Death Squad ran away, leaving a son behind. And in real life, Harris is alone, feeling lonely and desolate.
The fates of the two male and female protagonists of "Such a Sporting Career" seem to allude to the film's storyline.
In the film, the miner played by Harris sells himself to the rugby club for 1,000 pounds, and uses the money to buy a new car to please the widow played by Rachel, who did not want to trigger the woman's sadness, and the heroine died suddenly due to a strong stimulation of cerebral hemorrhage.
Harvested mulberry elm, lost east corner, everything is fate.
This Sporting Life (1963)
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Single Richard Harris did only two things for the rest of his life — to make a big fuss and make a bad movie.
He no longer cares about his identity as a Cannes film emperor, and he takes any drama, as long as he gives money. Completely embarked on a path of self-destruction.
He has said many times: "... I'm not interested in things like fame or immortality or immortality. I don't care what I remember. I don't care if I'm remembered or not. I don't care if I don't remember. I don't care why I'm remembered. I really don't care. ”
Before that, he was an athlete who did not have any bad habits, and after his wife left him, he first began to smoke, then drank heavily, and then he was full of poisons.
One night, he was lying drunk on the streets of London, and a patrolman woke him up, and Harris muttered, "Oh, the world is spinning, and my home is coming towards me..."
In the mid-seventies, Harris also briefly perked up. On June 7, 1974, he married the world supermodel Ann Toker, who was sixteen years younger.
The New York girl was lively and cute, with a beautiful figure, and two years later the two of them participated in "Cassandra Bridge" together.
Susan played by Ann Toker in Cassandra Bridge
Harris wasn't very happy when Cassandra Bridge was released, when he heard a rumor that the film's producer, Carlo Ponty, had a problem (Sophia Roland's husband). It is said that Carlo Ponty is the little white-faced Robbie in the film, Robbie uses the train to sell drugs, and Carlo Ponty uses the train from France to Switzerland to make antiques.
Little white-faced Robbie in Cassandra Bridge (played by Martin Sheen)
Many years later, Carlo Ponty was indeed prosecuted for smuggling national treasures and was restricted from entering the country.
All of this made Richard Harris feel very tired.
Like Raven in Wild Goose, he doesn't know who he's fighting for?
Before the release of "Cassandra Bridge", producer Carlo Ponty announced that Harris's supermodel wife, Ann Tokkel, was pregnant, but from the available information, the child was not born and its whereabouts were a mystery.
Soon after, Harris began to get bored with marriage, and nothing really brought him up.
During the filming of "Wild Goose Daredevil", he almost died in South Africa because of Kdo, almost scaring the producer to death.
In the early 1980s, he nearly drank himself to death, when his relatives and friends had already called the pastor to pray his last prayer.
Harris, who had passed by the grim reaper, began to get serious, waking up with the first thing to do, quit drinking; and the second thing to divorce his wife, Ann Toker.
He did not want to cheat on girls anymore, he was really afraid of marriage, after which the two officially began to marry, and lived together illegally from time to time until the day he died.
Speaking of Elizabeth Reese, the former social flower wife of the side, after marrying Rex for four years as the wife of the movie emperor, the two divorced, and Elizabeth filed a lawsuit with the court on the grounds that "Rex Harrison has committed improper behavior."
Then she married the British parliamentarian Peter Aitken, and within a few years, she married the congressman's cousin Jonathan Aitken, who was Mrs. Aitken anyway, and all of them were parliamentarians' wives anyway, and it didn't make much difference.
In his later years Harris, his ex-wife Elizabeth, and his granddaughters were together
For the last twelve years of his life, Harris stayed in Room 758 of the prestigious Savoy Hotel in London. That room had a view of the River Thames, he only cleaned the room once a week, rarely notified the front desk he left the room, and the maid had to check his door ten times a day to see if the "Do Not Disturb" sign was turned over and said "Please make up for my room".
Harris hid in his room all day long and stared at the river view, and what was flashing in his mind we don't know now, only that in old age, the only thing he cares about is family affection. When his 11-year-old granddaughter threatened him not to speak to Dumbledore if he didn't play Harry Potter, he complied.
In August 2002, seventy-two-year-old Richard Harris was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a very serious condition with no hope of recovery.
On the night of October 25 of the same year, an ambulance roared in front of the Savoy Hotel, and as the medical staff carried him through the lobby on the first floor, Harris did not forget to lean out and shout at the residents: "Blame the hotel for the poor food." ”
When you die, don't forget to be mischievous.
He died that night in a London hospital with no will. This is only two weeks away from the release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in the United States.
He was the first actor to die in the Harry Potter series.
Harris was cremated and his ashes scattered in the garden of his Bahamian home.
Richard Harris (October 1, 1930 – October 25, 2002)
In 2009, Iron Man 2 American actor Mickey Rourke dedicated his BAFTA Award for Best Actor to Richard Harris, calling him "a good friend and a great actor".
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