Richard Harris Filmography

Outside Edge [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Josie Lawrence

Synopsis: Produced for Central Television, the British sitcom Outside Edge was based on Richard Harris' 1982 TV play of the same name. The stories dealt with the relationship between two couples, united only by the fact that both played for a Sunday League Cricket Team. Wealthy Roger Dervish was imperious Read More

Stepping Out

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Julie Walters

Synopsis: Stepping Out might be considered a textbook exercise in screenwriting cliche: take Mavis Turner (Liza Minnelli), a woman who "coulda been a contenda" had she pursued her dreams of appearing on Broadway; give her an evening job at a converted church teaching tap; mix in a motley crew of left-footed Read More

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Norwood Builder

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Rosalie Crutchley, Colin Jeavons, Matthew Solon

Synopsis: In "The Norwood Builder," an episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (an excellent adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and produced in Britain for Granada), Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) reprises his excellent portrayal of the famed detective aided Read More

Target [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: One of the most violent series on mainstream British television, the weekly, 50-minute cop drama Target made its BBC1 debut on September 9, 1977. Patrick Mower headed the cast as the two-fisted, impeccably dressed Detective Superintendent Hackett, with frequent movie villain Philip Madoc as his Read More

Echoes of a Summer

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Harris, Lois Nettleton, Geraldine Fitzgerald, William Windom, Brad Savage

Synopsis: 14-year-old Jodie Foster portrays Deirdre Striden, an 11-year-old cancer victim in Echoes of a Summer. Eugene (Richard Harris) and Ruth (Lois Nettleton), her parents, are consumed by grief over the imminent demise of their daughter. It is Deirdre herself who, during a summer vacation in Nova Read More

The Squirrels

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Created by Eric Chappell, the British sitcom The Squirrels took place in the Accounts Department of International TV Rentals (under British law, viewers were required to pay a yearly license on their TVs, thus few "tellies" were owned outright). Bernard Hepton starred as Mr. Fletcher, the bloke in Read More

I Start Counting

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Clare Sutcliffe, Simon Ward, Gregory Phillips

Synopsis: When two teenage girls fantasize about their sexual yearnings, one is stalked by a psychopathic murderer. Wynne (Jenny Agutter) is adopted by a family and soon has a massive crush on her stepbrother George (Bryan Marshall). Her friend Corrine (Clare Sutcliffe) is Wynne's virginal friend who Read More

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Stéphane Audran, John McEnery, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Dany (Samantha Eggar) is the ad agency secretary to Caldwell (Oliver Reed) in this psychological crime drama. She is asked to drive him to the airport and park the car in the lot after working at his home the night before. Getting in the wrong lane, she decides to use the car for a weekend getaway Read More

Avengers: The Interrogators

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Christopher Lee, David Sumner, Philip Bond

Synopsis: The title refers to a special course for secret agents, designed to determine how much brutal interrogation the candidates are able to withstand. Tara King is summoned to undergo the course, willing if not eager to subject herself to its exacting rigors. What Tara doesn't know is that every agent Read More

Avengers: Game

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Newlands

Synopsis: Several seemingly unrelated ex-military men are murdered, each while assembling a jigsaw puzzle. Steed and Tara soon discover that the victims all presided over the court-martial of one of their comrades, now presumed dead. Since Steed himself was also part of the court-martial tribunal, he Read More

Man in a Suitcase [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Synopsis: Man in a Suitcase, co-created by writers Richard Harris and Dennis Spooner, was one of the more clever series to come out of Lew Grade's ITC organization, which was also the source for Secret Agent and The Saint. Texas-born actor Richard Bradford played McGill, a former CIA agent forced out of his Read More

Avengers: The Winged Avenger

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A spoof of the superhero craze of the late 1960s, this episode gets under way when several businessmen are found clawed to death. All evidence seems to point to a comic-strip character called The Winged Avenger -- but that's impossible, isn't it? While trying to get to the truth of the matter Read More

On the Run

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this drama, based on an Edgar Wallace story, a thief is doing time in prison after a major heist goes awry. Meanwhile, the ringleader, wanting to know where the thief stashed the loot, conspires to spring him. Unfortunately, the thief refuses to be sprung until the mastermind abducts his girl. Read More

The Main Chance

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gregoire Aslan, Tracy Reed, Edward de Souza, Stanley Meadows, Jack Smethurst

Synopsis: In this drama, a former RAF pilot is hired to fly a suspicious package from France to England. Trouble ensues when the pilot decides to keep it for himself without realizing that his employer anticipated his treachery and planted a bomb on the plane. Fortunately, the boss's secretary intervenes Read More

Six of the Best

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Six of the Best was a British TV anthology, consisting of pilot episodes for proposed series. Evidently none of these six pilots were the best, since none graduated to weekly status. The program was launched on August 11, 1965 with something called "Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore." Subsequent Read More

Attempts to Kill

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Attempts to Kill is a sprightly 57-minute entry in Merton Park Productions' "Edgar Wallace Mysteries" series. Derek Farr stars as Scotland Yard inspector Minter, on the trail of a ruthless gang of confidence tricksters. The scam artists' latest target is a London businessman, whom they plan to Read More

Locker Sixty-Nine

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: When a private eye cannot convince the police to investigate the murder of his boss, he takes up the case complete with missing bodies, strange papers and safety deposit box. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Strongroom

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Colin Gordon, John Chappell, Ann Lynn, Derren Nesbitt, Keith Faulkner

Synopsis: An effective, low-budget crime drama about a bank robbery gone wrong, this tale begins when three men get together to plan the bank heist over a long weekend. What they do not count on is the presence of two cleaning women who tragically alter their plans. The thieves end up locking the bank Read More

Avengers: Hunt The Man Down

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Originally scheduled as a live telecast on March 18, 1961, this Avengers episode was instead committed to videotape and broadcast on April 8. Steed and Keel put a tail on recently released convict Frank Preston, hoping that he will lead them to the money that he stole. But before Preston can reach Read More

Avengers: Square Root of Evil

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Hoping to break up a counterfeiting ring, Steed takes the place of a forger who is about to be released from prison. Steed's partner Dr. Keel remains in the sidelines awaiting further instructions, which may never come if Steed is unable to elude the other counterfeiters, who hover around him Read More

Man Detained

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this Edgar Wallace mystery, a burglar, arrested for possessing counterfeit money, is forced by the police to pose as a decoy to attract a ruthless killer who has murdered a photographer and is holding a secretary hostage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More