Robert Harris (English actor)

{{Short description|British actor (1900–1995)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox person

| image = Robert_Harris_(English_actor).png

| caption = Photo by Anthony Buckley, 1959

| name = Robert Harris

| birth_date = 28 March 1900

| birth_place = Weston-super-Mare, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|5|18|1900|3|28|df=yes}}

| death_place = Hillingdon, England

| othername =

| occupation = Actor

| years active = 1930-1982

}}

Robert Harris (28 March 1900 – 18 May 1995) was a British actor.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/22/obituaries/robert-harris-actor-95.html |title=Obituaries - Robert Harris, Actor, 95 |work=The New York Times |date=1995-05-22 |accessdate=2018-01-05 }} He graduated from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1925, and his stage work included seasons at Stratford, the Old Vic,{{Cite web|url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/robert-harris/|title=Robert Harris — RADA|website=www.rada.ac.uk}}{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/240/robert-harris|title=Robert Harris | Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}} and on Broadway as Marchbanks in Bernard Shaw's Candida in 1937, opposite Katharine Cornell;{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/candida-12206#OpeningNightCast|title=Candida – Broadway Play – 1937 Revival | IBDB}} He also appeared in more than sixty films from 1930 to 1982.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fb664e9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823042851/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fb664e9|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 August 2017|title=Robert Harris|website=BFI}}

He was the castaway on Desert Island Discs on 10 February 1955.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009yb00|title=Desert Island Discs - Robert Harris|publisher=BBC Radio|accessdate=28 December 2020}}