George Harrison

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1943-02-25

Deathday 2001-11-29 (58 years old)

Place of Birth Liverpool, England, UK

Also Known As The Beatles, Nelson Wilbury, Spike Wilbury, Traveling Wilburys, ザ・ビートルズ

George Harrison

Biography

George Harrison,  MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles.  Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle",  Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's break-up, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards.  His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the acclaimed and successful triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which came two singles: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, another former Beatle, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised a major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. Besides being a musician, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna. He was married twice, to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1974, and for 23 years to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. He is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.

Known For

Actor

The Beatles - 1967-1970

as Self (archive footage)

2024
Livin’ Thing

as Himself

2024
No Hamburg No Beatles

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

2024
Beatles '64

as Self (archive footage)

2024
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands

as Self (archive footage)

2024
The Bannfoot Ferry

as Self (archive footage)

2024
The Beach Boys

as Self (archive footage)

2023
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song

as Self (archive footage)

2023
The Beatles and the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2023
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

as Self (archive footage)

2023
Paul Newman: The Restless

as Self (archive footage)

2023
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2023
Louder Than Rock

as Self (archive footage)

2023
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

as Self (archive footage)

2023
Roy Orbison At The BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

as Self (archive footage)

2022
If These Walls Could Sing

as Self (archive footage)

2022
Ringo Starr: One of Them

as Self (archive footage)

2022
2022
Sherwood

as Nikko

2021
The Beatles and India

as Self (archive footage)

2021
The Sparks Brothers

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2021
The Beatles: Get Back

as Self (archive footage)

2021
McCartney 3, 2, 1

as Self (archive footage)

2021
2021
This Is Pop

as Self (archive footage)

2020
2020
Meeting the Beatles in India

as Self (archive footage)

2020
History 101

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind

as Self (archive footage)

2019
An Accidental Studio

as Self (archive footage)

2018
Understanding Lennon/McCartney

as Self (archival footage)

2018
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky

as Self (archive footage)

2018
ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff

as Self (archive footage)

2018
George Harrison - All Things Pass

as Self (archive footage)

2018
Take Your Pills

as Self (archive footage)

2018
Elvis Presley: The Searcher

as Self (archive footage)

2017
How the Beatles Changed the World

as Self (archive footage)

2017
My Generation

as Self (archive footage)

2017
2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

as Self - Musician (archive footage)

2017
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution

as Self (archive footage)

2017
Free to Rock

as Self - The Beatles (archive footage)

2016
Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album

as Self (archive footage)

2016
Beatles chronology (1962-1970)

as Self (archive footage)

2015
2015
The Beatles 1

as Self (archive footage)

2015
The Beatles 1+

as Self (archive footage)

2014
Awake: The Life of Yogananda

as Self (archive footage)

2014
2014
Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled

as Self (archive footage)

2014
Beatles på Sverigeturné

as Self (archive footage)

2013
Good Ol' Freda

as Self (archive footage)

2012
Genius

as Self (archive footage)

2012
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited

as Self (archive footage)

2012
2012
2011
Beatles Stories

as Self (archive footage)

2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1

as Self (archive footage)

2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4

as Self (archive footage)

2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3

as Self (archive footage)

2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2

as Self (archive footage)

2011
The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos

as Self (archive footage)

2011
2010
The Beatles: A Magical History Tour

as Self (archive footage)

2010
John Lennon: Love Is All You Need

as Self (archive footage)

2010
The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years

as Self (archive footage)

2010
The Beatles: The Complete Story

as Self (Archive Footage)

2009
The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere

as Self (archive footage)

2009
The Beatles: Budokan Tokyo 1966

as Self - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar

2008
2008
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles

as Self (archive footage)

2007
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg

as Self (archive footage)

2007
The Beatles: Help!

as Self (archive footage)

2007
The Beatles Explosion

as Self (archive footage)

2006
2006
Doctor Who: Origins

as Self (archive footage)

2005
The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2

as Self - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar

2005
The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary

as Self (archive footage)

2005
2004
Beatles Biggest Secrets

as Self (archive footage)

2004
The Beatles: Watching Rainbows

as Self (archive footage)

2004
George Harrison: All things must pass

as Self (archive footage)

2004
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle

as Self (archive footage)

2004
20th Century Greats

as Self (archive footage)

2003
Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized

as Self (archive footage)

2003
The Beatles: Around the World

as Self (archive footage)

2003
Concert for George

as Self (archive footage)

2003
The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch

as Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer (archive footage)

2003
Beatles: The Journey

as Self (archive footage)

2003
Hagström: Everything in Music

as Self (archive footage)

2002
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.

as Self (archive footage)

2002
Things They Said Today

as Self (archive footage)

2002
Naqoyqatsi

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2002
George Harrison - The Quiet one

as Self (archive footage)

2001
Beatles: Big Beat Box

as Self (archive footage)

2001
Wingspan

as Self (archive footage)

1999
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales

as Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)

1999
The Beatles: A Celebration

as Self (archive footage)

1999
Television: The First Fifty Years

as Self – The Beatles (archive footage)

1997
1996
The Beatles Story

as Self (archive footage)

1996
The Beatles Unauthorized

as Self (archive footage)

1996
Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary

as Self (archive footage)

1994
1992
1991
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit

as Self (archive footage)

1989
The Simpsons

as George Harrison (voice)

1988
Checking Out

as Cleaner

1987
Jimi Plays Monterey

as Self (archive footage)

1986
Shanghai Surprise

as Nightclub Singer

1986
Fun with the Fab Four

as Self (archive footage)

1985
British Rock: The First Wave

as Self (archive footage)

1985
Water

as Himself - The Singing Rebels' Band

1982
The Compleat Beatles

as Self (archive footage)

1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

as Self (archive footage)

1982
Timewatch

as Self (archive footage)

1982
Wogan

as Self

1982
1981
This Is Elvis

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1979
Life of Brian

as Mr. Papadopolous (uncredited)

1978
Ringo

as George Harrison

1978
I Wanna Hold Your Hand

as Self (archive footage)

1978
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash

as The Interviewer (Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer)

1975
Night Lunch

as Self

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Musical Guest

1974
1974
The Society of the Spectacle

as Self (archive footage)

1972
Imagine

as Self

1971
Raga

as Self

1971
Disco

as Self

1970
Let It Be

as Self - The Beatles (uncredited)

1969
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko

as Self (archive footage)

1969
The Beatles - Abbey Road

as Self - Guitar, Vocals

1969
Beatles Electroniques

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1968
1968
Yellow Submarine

as George (uncredited)

1968
The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)

1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1967
Magical Mystery Tour

as Self / Magician Looking Through Telescope

1967
Our World

as Self

1967
Monument

as Self (archive footage)

1967
Omnibus

as Self

1967
1966
El Rey en Londres

as Self (archive footage)

1966
Die Beatles

as Self - The Beatles

1966
Reflections on Love

as Self (archive footage)

1965
The Music of Lennon & McCartney

as Self (archive footage)

1965
Help!

as George

1965
Doctor Who: The Chase

as Self (archive footage)

1965
Pop Gear

as Self

1965
The Beatles

as Self (vocals musical segments) (uncredited)

1964
What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA

as Self - The Beatles Member

1964
1964
1964
1964
1963

Producer

1990
Nuns on the Run

as Producer

1990
Cold Dog Soup

as Executive Producer

1989
How to Get Ahead in Advertising

as Executive Producer

1989
Powwow Highway

as Executive Producer

1988
The Raggedy Rawney

as Executive Producer

1988
Track 29

as Executive Producer

1988
Checking Out

as Executive Producer

1987
Bellman and True

as Executive Producer

1987
Five Corners

as Executive Producer

1987
Withnail & I

as Executive Producer

1986
Mona Lisa

as Executive Producer

1986
Shanghai Surprise

as Executive Producer

1985
Water

as Executive Producer

1984
A Private Function

as Executive Producer

1983
Privates on Parade

as Executive Producer

1983
Bullshot

as Executive Producer

1982
1982
The Missionary

as Executive Producer

1982
Scrubbers

as Executive Producer

1981
Time Bandits

as Executive Producer

1979
Life of Brian

as Executive Producer

1970
Let It Be

as Executive Producer

1967

Sound

2024
2023
By My Side

as Music

2019
Yesterday

as Songs

2007
1998
Everest

as Music

1986
Shanghai Surprise

as Original Music Composer

1986
1986
Shanghai Surprise

as Theme Song Performance

1981
Time Bandits

as Theme Song Performance

1981
Beatlemania

as Songs

1970
Let It Be

as Songs

1968
1968
Revolution

as Songs

1968
Wonderwall

as Original Music Composer

1967
Magical Mystery Tour

as Original Music Composer

1965
Help!

as Songs

Crew

2001
Ram Dass: Fierce Grace

as Additional Music

1981
Time Bandits

as Additional Music

Writer

1967

Director

1967