Richard Harris’s story of his revenge on an anti-Irish actor is a comic delight

The great Irish actor Richard Harris had a long and distinguished career on stage and screen, right up to his untimely death in 2002. The younger generation will probably always think of him only as the original Professor Dumbledore from the Harry Potter films.

He was never the kind of person to take shit from anyone, and this interview on Tonight with Johnny Carson back in 1992 shows just how he dealt with an actor who was clearly racist against the Irish.

Despite our better efforts, we haven’t been able to find out who the English actor was, and Laurence Fox wasn’t born then so it can’t have been him.

Twitter user @molloy1916 shared the clip on Twitter, where it’s been viewed well over 80,000 times in less than two days.

When an Irishman put an Englishman in his place! pic.twitter.com/CvFhA9URlp

— Danny Morrison (@molloy1916) January 22, 2020

The clip reminded someone named Stiofán O’Dalaigh of another Harris anecdote.

He and Peter O’Toole are alleged to have been drinking in the Coal Hole on the Strand in London, after too many drinks an ambulance was called for Harris, he was carried out on a stretcher, Harris is supposed to have said to the patrons entering, “it was the food” 😂

— Stiofán O’Dalaigh (@Stephen13772426) 23 January 2020

Irreplaceable.

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