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Richard Harris
1930–2002
American gridiron football player (1948–2011)
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Biography
Richard Drew Harris was an American professional football player who was a defensive end who played seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was an All-American in 1970 for Grambling and was selected in the first round of the 1971 NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, the first defensive player chosen. Harris was named to the NFL All-Rookie team in 1971 and was widely regarded as one of the fastest defensive linemen in professional football before being hobbled by knee injuries.
Timeline
The story of Richard Harris, told in moments.
Starred in This Sporting Life as a bitter rugby league player. Won the Best Actor award at Cannes. He was 32 and suddenly famous.
Recorded "MacArthur Park," a seven-minute pop song about a cake melting in the rain. It reached number two in the US. He wasn't a trained singer.
Starred in the original film of A Man Called Horse. He did many of his own stunts, including being suspended by hooks through his chest during the Sun Vow ceremony.
Cast as Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. He took the role at 71 after his granddaughter threatened never to speak to him if he turned it down.
Died of Hodgkin's disease in London at 72. He'd completed filming Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets weeks before. Michael Gambon replaced him.
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I was putting you under stress and asking you to meet a difficult deadline.
ect was finished within the next three days. Kalam met the deadline, impressing the Dean, who later said to him, "I was putting you under stress and asking you to meet a difficult deadline." Later, he...
Drawings from the Cheap Seats: A Collection of Sports Cartoons by Richard Harris, Jr
Drawings from the Cheap Seats is a collection of sports cartoons by noted sports cartoonist Richard Harris. Many of the cartoons in this book have appeared in his Newsday sports cartoon, "The Cheap...
I feel comfortable in the company of young people, particularly high school stud...
00 students during the two years after his resignation from the post of scientific adviser in 1999. He explained, "I feel comfortable in the company of young people, particularly high school students....
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a...
since Kalam believed that "respect for other faiths" was one of the key cornerstones of Islam, and he remarked: "For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a...
Every evening, my father A. P. Jainulabdeen, an imam, Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry, t...
His father had also impressed upon the young Kalam the value of interfaith respect and dialogue. As Kalam recalled: "Every evening, my father A. P. Jainulabdeen, an imam, Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry, the...
Kalam was a complete Indian, an embodiment of the eclecticism of India's heritag...
e divergent traditions of our country". Describing Kalam as a unifier of diverse traditions, Shashi Tharoor remarked, "Kalam was a complete Indian, an embodiment of the eclecticism of India's heritage...
[Pramukh Swami] has indeed transformed me. He is the ultimate stage of the spiri...
for writing his experiences as a book later. Summarising the effect that Pramukh Swami had on him, Kalam stated that "[Pramukh Swami] has indeed transformed me. He is the ultimate stage of the...
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