Irish born Richard Harris died on the on the 26th of October 2002. The one time hell raiser ended his career on a quieter note by staring as J.K Rowling's Albus Dumbledore in the screen adaptation the first Harry Potter novel. Harris began to get a reputation for himself both on and off screen back in the sixties. The critic Clive Barnes called him one of a new breed of British actors, who are "rougher, tougher, fiercer, angrier and more passionately articulate than their well-groomed predecessors ... roaring boys, sometimes with highly coloured private lives and lurid public images." His drinking bouts with fellow alcohol leviathans Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole became the thing of legend.