Robert Harris | |
Birth Date: | 28 March 1900 |
Birth Place: | Weston-super-Mare, England |
Death Place: | Hillingdon, England |
Occupation: | Actor |
Years Active: | 1930-1982 |
Robert Harris (28 March 1900 – 18 May 1995) was a British actor.[1] He graduated from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1925, and his stage work included seasons at Stratford, the Old Vic,[2] [3] and on Broadway as Marchbanks in Bernard Shaw's Candida in 1937, opposite Katharine Cornell;[4] He also appeared in more than sixty films from 1930 to 1982.[5]
He was the castaway on Desert Island Discs on 10 February 1955.[6]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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1930 | The W Plan | Subaltern | ||
1943 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Embassy Secretary | ||
1949 | The Bad Lord Byron | Dallas | ||
1949 | For Them That Trespass | Defense Counsel Sir Huntley | ||
1951 | In Time of Pestilence | Narrator | Voice | |
1953 | Laughing Anne | Joseph Conrad | ||
1955 | That Lady | Cardinal | ||
1957 | Seven Waves Away | Arthur J. Middleton | ||
1957 | The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown | Barney Baylies | ||
1960 | Oscar Wilde | Justice Richard Henn Collins - First Trial | ||
1963 | Girl in the Headlines | William Lamotte | ||
1968 | Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher | Prendergast | ||
1972 | Young Winston | Speaker Gully | ||
1973 | Lady Caroline Lamb | Apothecary | ||
1973 | Massacre in Rome | Father Pancrazio | ||
1974 | Ransom | |||
1975 | Love Among the Ruins | Palmer | ||
1978 | Fairy Tales | Dr. Ears |