George Harrison profile
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George Harrison

25th February 1943 Liverpool, England, UK Acting

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.

245 Movies 31 TV Shows 276 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Evolver 62 poster
Evolver 62 10th February 2026 as Self (archive footage)
Free to Rock poster
Free to Rock 1st May 2017 as Self - The Beatles (archive footage)
Genius poster
Genius 28th December 2012 as Self (archive footage)
Palme poster
Palme 14th September 2012 as Self (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi poster
Naqoyqatsi 2nd September 2002 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wingspan poster
Wingspan 11th May 2001 as Self (archive footage)
Water poster
Water 11th January 1985 as Himself - The Singing Rebels' Band
Ringo poster
Ringo 25th April 1978 as George Harrison
Raga poster
Raga 23rd November 1971 as Self
Let It Be poster
Let It Be 13th February 1970 as Self - The Beatles (uncredited)
Monument poster
Monument 17th April 1967 as Self (archive footage)
Help! poster
Help! 29th July 1965 as George
Timewatch poster
Timewatch 29th September 1982 as Self (archive footage)
Disco poster
Disco 13th February 1971 as Self
The Beatles poster
The Beatles 25th September 1965 as Self (vocals musical segments) (uncredited)
Doctor Who poster
Doctor Who 23rd November 1963 as Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)