Robert Harris (English actor)

Robert Harris
Photo by Anthony Buckley, 1959
Born	28 March 1900 Weston-super-Mare, England
Died	18 May 1995(1995-05-18) (aged 95) 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]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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

References

1. "Obituaries - Robert Harris, Actor, 95". The New York Times. 22 May 1995. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
2. "Robert Harris — RADA". www.rada.ac.uk.
3. "Robert Harris | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
4. "Candida – Broadway Play – 1937 Revival | IBDB".
5. "Robert Harris". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017.
6. "Desert Island Discs - Robert Harris". BBC Radio. Retrieved 28 December 2020.

External links

• Robert Harris at IMDb
• Robert Harris at the Internet Broadway Database