George Harris (born 20 October 1949) is a British actor of films, stage, television, radio and musicals. His notable roles include Kingsley Shacklebolt in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Katanga in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He also played a real Somali warlord Osman Ali Atto in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down.
Harris was born on the Caribbean island of Grenada and partially educated in Barbados, the land of his father. George left the ...
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George Harris (born 20 October 1949) is a British actor of films, stage, television, radio and musicals. His notable roles include Kingsley Shacklebolt in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Katanga in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He also played a real Somali warlord Osman Ali Atto in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down.
Harris was born on the Caribbean island of Grenada and partially educated in Barbados, the land of his father. George left the Caribbean at the age of 15 to make United Kingdom his home and has lived in Sweden and Israel. He performed all over Europe and the United States with his band before he became a well-known dramatic actor.
Harris is not only a film actor but has starred in many theatre productions at the National Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre and many West End and regional theatres like the Royal Exchange in Manchester, Theatre Royal Bath and many others in his long and distinguished acting career that has seen him in musicals like Hair, performing in...
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