Richard Harrison

Acting

Richard Harrison

Born 1935-05-26 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Richard Harrison is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. Harrison was very prolific and worked with most of the better-known names in European B-movies during the 1960s and 1970s, branching out to exploitation films shot all over the world in the early 1970s.

Acting credits

Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You poster
4.3

An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.

Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You

1970

Tall Story poster
5.7

A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter.

Tall Story

1960

Tall Story poster
5.7

A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter.

Tall Story

1960

Hajji Washington poster
5.6

Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori (Haji Baba) goes to Washington D.C. as the first Iranian (Persian) ambassador to the United States of America. After he opens the embassy, he is unable to invite statesmen to visit him. Haji fires the embassy staff due to the inability of the Persian government to meet the embassy's needs. One night he is visited by President Grover Cleveland.

Hajji Washington

1983

Scorpion Thunderbolt poster
3.8

A female journalist transforms into a snake demon and goes on murderous rampages.Hong Kong cut and paste edit of the 1983 Taiwanese film "人頭蛇" (Snake Woman) with new scenes.

Scorpion Thunderbolt

1984

South Pacific poster
6.1

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.

South Pacific

1958

Master of the World poster
6.0

A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.

Master of the World

1961

Achtung! The Desert Tigers poster
3.8

During World War II, an American major is captured by the Germans and thrown into a POW camp run by a sadistic Nazi officer, whose main pleasures are whipping the local female population and torturing prisoners. The major organizes an escape attempt using the camp's nubile female doctor as a hostage.

Achtung! The Desert Tigers

1977

The Four Assassins poster
5.6

Set at the time of Italian explorer Marco Polo's historic expedition to China ,during the reign of Monogol ruler Kublai Khan, it stars American actor Richard Harrison as Polo. Taking considerable liberties with the historic record, the film has Polo turning up as an Imperial Inspector assigned to root out Chinese rebles in the south, but eventually being won over to their cause.

The Four Assassins

1975

The Hideout poster
3.7

A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find there is a Resort on the site and the well is the centerpiece of the place. He then has to find a way to retrieve his haul.

The Hideout

1971

Kronos poster
5.7

Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.

Kronos

1957

Ninja Operation: Knight and Warrior poster
4.2

When police officer Alvin loses both his star witness and his wife to drug kingpin (and ninja assassin) Rudolph, he vows to get revenge. Travelling to Hong Kong, hot on Rudolph's trail, he teams up with local investigators Gordon, Vivian and Jackie. Meanwhile, a young street punk named Edmund is hunting for the man who killed his father. Could they all possibly be searching for the same person? A Hong Kong cut-and-paste edit of the 1984 Taiwanese Film 女太保 (A Rouge Girl) with new ninja scenes.

Ninja Operation: Knight and Warrior

1987

Jeanne Eagels poster
6.2

Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.

Jeanne Eagels

1957

Too Much, Too Soon poster
4.9

The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore is reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.

Too Much, Too Soon

1958

Boxer Rebellion poster
6.4

Three young martial arts brothers, played by Chi Kuan-chun, Alexander Fu Sheng and Leung Kar-yan, go in search of fellow patriots dissatisfied with Imperialist foreigners and wind up joining a rising sect of the Boxers, led by an opportunistic conman. Named as such for their use of martial arts, these boxers are revolutionaries who believe that spirits protect their bodies from foreign guns. They even dupe the Empress Dowager, who gives them her royal blessing to fight the foreigners.

Boxer Rebellion

1976

Ninja Terminator poster
6.0

The hunt is on to gain the fabulous super-strength of ninja sorcery, after three top students of the Ninja Empire each steals one of the sections of the Golden Ninja Warrior statuette. On the case is interpol agent, Jaguar Wong, who must make sure that whoever re-unites the pieces uses the power for doing good not evil. A Hong Kong cut and paste edit of the 1984 Korean Film "스타페리의 不請客" (Uninvited Guest of The Star Ferry) with new ninja scenes.

Ninja Terminator

1986

One After Another poster
6.1

Bespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank.

One After Another

1968

Angel Eyes poster
4.2

Angel is a disturbed teen who becomes obsessed with her nice stepfather Steven. After her mother dies under unusual circumstances, Angel is sent to an institution. Years later, she is let out and tracks down her dear step-dad who now lives with his new girlfriend Michelle. He is technically her only kin so he takes her in, but his girlfriend doesn't like Angel one bit. Angel's obsession with her "dad" is as strong as ever and she fantasizes about seducing him. After spying on him and his girlfriend having passionate sex, she begins playing a deadly game and even tries to seduce his hostile girlfriend. However, Steven has a more immediate and obvious problem - a drug dealer called Johnny Ventura.

Angel Eyes

1993

Gladiators 7 poster
3.8

Framed for the escape of five gladiators from the arena, the son of one of Sparta's leading citizens is sentenced to the arena as gladiator himself and forced to fight for his life in the Roman Colosseum. Years later he manages to escape and return to Sparta, only to find out that his father has been murdered--even though it was ruled a "suicide"--and the woman he loves is about to marry the evil king who has usurped the throne. He sets out to find six of his fellow gladiators and return to Sparta to save his woman and place the rightful king on the throne.

Gladiators 7

1962

Hunters Crossing poster
10.0

A mercenary is sent to rescue a millionaire's son captured by Filipino pirates.

Hunters Crossing

1983

The Pitiless Three poster
5.9

Three unequal brothers seek revenge for the murder of their father. Each of them goes a different way.

The Pitiless Three

1964

Ninja Operation 7: Royal Warriors poster
3.8

When the Purple Ninja Empire get their hands on a lost treasure map, the race is on to find the legendary Burmese treasure. Two warriors join forces to claim the riches, but treachery and deceit stand in their way. Hong Kong cut and paste edit of the 1985 Thai and Korean film "밀림의 대탈출/ขุมทองแม่น้ำแคว " (Great Escape From the Jungle) with new ninja scenes.

Ninja Operation 7: Royal Warriors

1987

Lies of the Twins poster
4.5

An ex-model is seduced into danger by her psychotherapist boyfriend's wicked identical twin.

Lies of the Twins

1991

Ninja Operation 6: Champion on Fire poster
6.3

"A hostile warrior just released from prison is hell bent on killing the missionary priest who put him behind bars. He is relentless in his pursuit of the good priest. Meanwhile, the priest teams up with another pure spirited Ninja while on a mission to capture the leader of a gang of thieves terrorizing the local area. This duo is determined to rid the northern continent of all evil Ninja Warriors. The fighting is ferocious as the priest is killed, causing his brother to enter the scene to avenge his death. Both the opposing forces do battle to the grueling end!" - VHS Back of the box description Hong Kong cut and paste edit of the 1974 Taiwanese film "大地龍種 " (Fury in Storm) with new ninja scenes.

Ninja Operation 6: Champion on Fire

1987

Behind the camera

Blood Debts poster
3.7

It started with the rape of his daughter, then the killing of her boyfriend. He takes the law into his own hands and has his revenge. Branded as a vicious killer by the underworld, the syndicate blackmails him into becoming their hitman. As he gets more and more tied up in the world of drugs, prostitution and death, he decides he wants out. No one gets out of the syndicate alive. It then becomes a battle for survival, him against them in a desperate act of street warfare. His life is his prize.

Blood Debts

1985

Two Brothers in Trinity poster
6.5

Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother. The wildly contrasting mismatched duo get into all sorts of trouble while trying to claim said inheritance. Written by Woodyanders

Two Brothers in Trinity

1972

Two Brothers in Trinity poster
6.5

Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother. The wildly contrasting mismatched duo get into all sorts of trouble while trying to claim said inheritance. Written by Woodyanders

Two Brothers in Trinity

1972

Two Brothers in Trinity poster
6.5

Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother. The wildly contrasting mismatched duo get into all sorts of trouble while trying to claim said inheritance. Written by Woodyanders

Two Brothers in Trinity

1972

Three Men on Fire poster
7.5

A Cameroonese police officer (Alphonse Beni) and a CIA agent (Richard Harrison) try to prevent the Pope from being assassinated by Italian terrorists during his African tour.

Three Men on Fire

1986

Three Men on Fire poster
7.5

A Cameroonese police officer (Alphonse Beni) and a CIA agent (Richard Harrison) try to prevent the Pope from being assassinated by Italian terrorists during his African tour.

Three Men on Fire

1986

Three Men on Fire poster
7.5

A Cameroonese police officer (Alphonse Beni) and a CIA agent (Richard Harrison) try to prevent the Pope from being assassinated by Italian terrorists during his African tour.

Three Men on Fire

1986

Clouzot & C. contro Borsalino & C. poster
9.0

The clash between two detectives and a crook.

Clouzot & C. contro Borsalino & C.

1977