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Robert Harris

Actor

Robert Harris

Born March 28, 1900 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UKDied May 18, 199520 films

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp posterFirst watchThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp19437.5as Embassy SecretaryGeneral Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win…View film

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Young Winston poster6.2Young Winston1972Fairy Tales poster6.0Fairy Tales1978Ransom poster5.5Ransom1974

Filmography

20 films as actor
  1. 1979Henry VDuke of Burgundy
  2. 1978Fairy TalesDr. Ears
  3. 1976Love Among the RuinsThe Judge
  4. 1974RansomAmbassador Palmer
  5. 1973Massacre in RomeFather Pancrazio
  6. 1972Lady Caroline LambApothecary
  7. 1972Young WinstonSpeaker Gully
  8. 1972The Merchant of VeniceDuke of Venice
  9. 1970The End of the LineFrayne
  10. 1970Separate TablesMr. Fowler
  11. 1968Decline and Fall ...of a BirdwatcherPrendergast
  12. 1963Girl in the HeadlinesWilliam Lamotte
  13. 1960Oscar WildeJustice Henn Collins
  14. 1955That LadyCardenal
  15. 1953Laughing AnneJoseph Conrad
  16. 1953The Lady from the SeaDr. Paul Wangel
  17. 1949The Bad Lord ByronDallas
  18. 1943UndercoverCol. Von Brock
  19. 1943The Life and Death of Colonel BlimpEmbassy Secretary
  20. 1931How He Lied to Her HusbandHe (Henry Apjohn)