Richard Harris – Irish actor. When asked for his favorite food replied “I adore the hamburgers at P. J. Clarke’s. In my drinking days, it was my first stop from the airport. A fellow named Vinny used to be the bartender there, and when I told him I wanted the usual, he lined up six double vodkas. I told an interviewer that once, and he said, ‘That’s a lot of bull, that’s one of your exaggerated stories!’ I said, ‘Call a taxi.’ We walked into P.J. Clarke’s, I said, ‘Vinny, my usual.’ And he lined up six double vodkas.”
Richard St. John Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor, singer and songwriter. He was featured on stage and in many films, and was perhaps best known for the film role of King Arthur in Camelot (1967) , as Oliver Cromwell in Cromwell and for the portrayal of Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), his last film. He also played a British aristocrat and prisoner in A Man Called Horse (1970).
Harris was a notorious playboy and drinker, part of a rowdy generation of British and Irish actors including Albert Finney, Laurence Harvey, Peter Finch, Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole.