Behaving Badly: Richard Harris

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<p>Richard Harris was never an easy person to get along with. He was a difficult schoolboy (and was later disowned by his Limerick teachers), then he went to work in the family flourand milling business - where he organised a strike against his father.</p><p>It was as a gifted and compelling actor that Richard Harris dominated stage and screen for more than four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar twice: for his earthy portrayal of a rugby player in<i>This Sporting Life</i>and as a dominant and bullish Irish farmer in<i>The Field.</i>More recently he delivered gripping screen performances in<i>Gladiator</i>and two<i>Harry Potter</i>films.</p><p>But it was his violent, drunken, womanising private life that fed the public myth and made Harris, one of a new breed of rogue male actors, an international celebrity. Married and divorced twice, with three sons - two actors, one a film director - he claimed the only time he had been miscast was as a husband. His lovers included legends such as Merle Oberon, Sophia Loren, Ava Gardner and Vanessa Redgrave.</p>

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Cliff Goodwin, author of the bestselling<i>Evil Spirits: The Life of Oliver Reed,</i>has interviewed some of Harris's closest friends and fellow actors to amass a wealth of previously unpublished stories and information about a man who frequently lived as a recluse - but never failed to make headlines.

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