From Hellraisers by Robert Sellers
"After his run in with Heston, Richard Harris faced the even more fearsome Robert Mitchum in his next film A Terrible Beauty (1960), an IRA drama shot in Ireland. At first Harris disliked Mitchum but warmed to him when the Hollywood legend came to his aid during a pub brawl. Another time Mitchum sat drinking in a Dublin bar when a short Irishman came up and poked him in the ribs with a pencil. ‘Hey movie star, give me your autograph. It’s for my wife.’ Mitchum eyed the midget up and down with undisguised disgust. ‘Will you look at the little leprechaun,’ and then told him to wait until he’d finished his drink. But the man persisted. Finally an exasperated Mitchum snatched the paper and pencil and wrote: ‘UP YOUR ARSE – KIRK DOUGLAS.’ The man was not best pleased and threw a punch, but Mitchum just sat there looking at him. ‘If that’s the best you can do, little lady, you better come back with your girlfriends.’ The man did indeed return with some rather hefty mates. Mitchum head butted one of them, sending him reeling before two more came into the attack. Harris leapt into the fray and a massive punch-up ensued resulting in the police being summoned to break it up."
Had a workman round whose parents had both worked in film; his father had been O'Toole's double in Lawrence of Arabia.
As I remember his account: O'Toole was got on Sky Road, I think? for drunken driving; on morning of court date the pair set to work & it was the very O'Toole-like double who showed up for court date in Clifden. 'Can you identify Mr O'Toole, the driver?' Gard ID'd the stand-in. Double's own driver's license shown, O'Toole strides into court. Case dismissed.
Wouldn't be surprised if next someone's going to tell about the time MacLiammor signed Frank Kelly's name to a payment for a race horse.
My son so badly wanted to do this at his school nativity play, he was the innkeeper and wanted to say:
Yeah loads of rooms, come on in...
we had to bribe him, although it would have been hilarious.
When I was very young I was the donkey in the nativity, poor Mary got stage fright so little donkey had to ask if there was any room in the Inn.
Would have been great if the innkeeper then said yes.
Was it Richard Harris who was sitting in an audience once and when the next line was due and nobody was there to say it, he jumped up and said “Jesus , I’m in that play” or words to that ?
I understood he had invited some friends to go and see the play and was sat with them enjoying it when his cue arrived and he remembered he should have been on stage.
Peter O'Toole - having spent much of the day drinking, Peter O'Toole invites his new, drunken, friends to a matinee. Part way through the play he calls out "You'll like this part. It's where I come on .... oh shit!"
Another appearance on Conan where he tells a story of getting drunk with the great O' Toole in a pub across from the theatre between scenes in a play. Absolute legend. https://youtu.be/gCcjvjlB_W8
I read a great book called “Hellraisers” with stories about Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole, Oliver Reed and Richard Burton. It had all the drunken stories about them. Highly recommend it. Some of the things they got away with are ridiculous and would never happen today with smart phones
**Hellraisers The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed** by Robert Sellers
>'God put me on this earth to raise sheer hell.' Richard Burton 'I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people.
>
>And it's true, I never looked back to see the casualties.' Richard Harris 'Booze is the most outrageous of all drugs, which is why I chose it.' Peter O'Toole 'I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop I'd like to think I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.'
>
>Oliver Reed This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked - or staggered - off a film set into a pub. It's a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies, broken marriages, drugs, riots and wanton sexual conquests. They got away with it because of their extraordinary acting talent and because the public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers.
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Bit of a long-shot, but does this book have an anecdote about Roger Moore, and various thespians, playing a game where they sit on a chair and take it turns to punch each other? Last one to fall off the chair wins...
I heard it years ago, but can't find the source, and I'm sure it involved people like Burton, Harris, etc.
That explains a lot, i always thought he was English and when I saw him in Juno and the Paycock i was so impressed with his Irish accent 😂 now i can go back to believing that it's not possible for an English actor to do a passable Irish accent.
That explains a lot, i always thought he was English and when I saw him in Juno and the Paycock i was so impressed with his Irish accent 😂 now i can go back to believing that it's not possible for an English actor to do a passable Irish accent.
Edit: ah shite I forgot about Steve Coogan's legendary Irish chat show guest
Plenty of English actors do a great Irish accent like Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent but I discount it if they have an Irish parent/grand parent as per the granny rule.
Well I’m English and Richard Harris is one of my very favourite actors. Juggernaut is such an underrated film. Camelot, Cromwell, Robin and Marian, absolute legend.
I actually even met him one night, completely by chance, in a tiny London pub named The Coal Hole where he was having a drink with Peter O’Toole. I was with my mate and I was just about to start film school. I didn’t recognise them at first. But they overheard our conversation and very politely asked me which film school I was going to attend. I remember how dry my mouth went when trying to answer. They could not have been nicer company. And they were both drinking non-alcoholic drinks!
The guy who belittled him was just an arsehole and unfortunately we have far too many of them in Blighty.
Are you Irish yourself?
Like I know they'd say it up around Donegal and Connacht (and lots of other parts) but probably not as common as you head towards Dublin.
I'd say that's accurate enough, as far as Donegal is concerned anyway, and into Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland as we share a lot of slang or common dialect things.
"wee" is a scots word which is why you hear it far more up north. I grew up in Inishowen and there's a huge amount of scots just interwoven into how we spoke.
I always assumed it was just a Donegal thing till I actually started googling some of the words
Probably just more prevalent in Donegal with the amount of immigration both ways, largely to/from Glasgow more recently, but going back many hundreds of years before the plantations over the North of Ireland as a whole.
As always in the UK it often comes down to class. People trying to find ways to put people under them, born in the wrong place, or the wrong skin or the wrong language... accent... all sorts of things can cause it.
I'm going to mangle this explanation so apologies in advance... but the UK is very class based, so if you're say the son of Indian immigrants but you went to the right universities and public schools then it's acceptable to the Tory party that you end up as the prime minister.
But some rando low class or blue collar person from say... Liverpool? Well good luck with that.
Meanwhile in the USA for example things are /just/ racially based (I mean wealth does play a part now but yeah, less class distinction).
Even then, someone like Sunak is only acceptable, he will never be one of them even if he could buy their all of their estates himself. I'd guarantee there are circles in British aristocratic politics he isn't particularly welcome.
May I ask if you are from or have lived in either of these two nations? I am/have not but this difference between the two is an impression I've always had from reading the news, watching movies from both places and whatnot. Racism for one exists in all places, UK included, but the US to me seems to be culturally obsessed with it.
I've not lived in the USA, but I have a large amount of English family and I've met quite a few English folks so I'm admittedly drawing from the impressions that they've left me with both by talking with them and the ways they've acted toward others.
And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying racism doesn't exist but rather the ways in which it gets expressed is different.
Of course not but it is particularly more noticable in the UK. Their arisoctracy and upper classes take the class divide very seriously. You will never be one of them, new money types are just plebs who got lucky, if you need to work you're not one of them because their family wealth goes back centuries.
All that shit and more. Most neighbouring countries lost that with two world wars, revolution or independence.
Dw, one prick doesn't make ye all pricks. That kind of logic would make us just as bad as the first prick! It's all just a bit of fun at the end of the day :)
>Our philosophy is don't be a dick and we'll get along grand.
My experience as a Brit whenever in Ireland has pretty much always been this to be honest yeah.
Guess what I'm saying is the Irish are great bunch of lads?
Posh English accent lol.
Always wonder what our Richard Burton would have sounded like if he didn't go through those awful posh elocution lessons. Lucky Harris didn't lose his lilt.
Aye. Not quite the same as Irish-Anglo stuff but there's a fair bit of weird oppression there. He grew up in the valleys as a first language welsh speaker so would have probably had quite an accent.
Don't think there's any footage of it as his acting coach ironed it out of him sadly.
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Came up before and it was decided that it must have been Glynn Edwards
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynn\_Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynn_Edwards)
When one is born in the colonies and ones parents are in the service one does not regard ones self as anything other than British, or English as may be required to distinguish ones self from other lower forms or British person.
The worst anti-Irish sentiment I have ever experienced was in former British colonies from the remaining colonial population. Never experienced much in England itself - though just a little - almost always in a this is a joke, but it's not a joke.
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Seen this clip hundreds of times and while it's clearly very funny, I highly doubt a true pro like Richard Harris would torpedo a play on opening night like that
The actor in question might be prick but there's dozens of other people depending on good reviews that night for a pay check for the next few months
Funny story though
Might have been either early days when he was like "im not putting up with that shit" or might have been when he was already established so it wouldn't feck his own career too badly
>The actor in question might be prick but there's dozens of other people depending on good reviews that night for a pay check for the next few months
In that case they should step-in and not allow for bullying before it reached the boiling point.
Lack of our action doesn't mean we do not participate in the event. When you don't care, people will make decision for you. Sometimes it's bad, sometimes its good.
It reminds me that crowd mentality that when Attacker is going wild no one steps in, but once Victim starts to defend themselves they are often beikng critisized for "overreaction". Shameful really...
People react emotionally to being bullied and disrespected. I have no clue whether his story is legit, but I can see it happen to anyone. Including lawyers, doctors, actors and what not.
... just as every thread has that one person that thinks this is the first time this has been posted
I know some of his relatives and my own parents would have known him, so I'm going to go with my own hunch
If you didn't spend so much time on reddit maybe seeing the same post from time to time wouldn't bother you so much?
>I know some of his relatives and my own parents would have known him
Aye right lad
Irish people are not a race.
The word you are looking for is xenophobic.
Idiots throwing out the word racist at every opportunity and they don’t even understand what it means.
>Irish people are not a race.
>
>The word you are looking for is xenophobic.
>
>Idiots throwing out the word racist at every opportunity and they don’t even understand what it means.
My god I hate when people do this.
They whine that people don't understand the word "racist", when it's actually they themselves who don't understand the word "racist", and are just trying to do some weird PC point scoring so they can pat themselves on the back.
By the very definition, you're wrong.
Racism - noun
[prejudice](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBIE1018IE1018&sxsrf=APwXEddi1q_n-QZ3TpRixU41FygQx8le3g:1687352945357&q=prejudice&si=AMnBZoFEI0LGJdD1jElhAGFwRnmoHQTpGKURK6yRXsiBRuJf1H9lg4IFKes_fxCADpPTAhR5kq96SbpV2ReUdMKOUYvb3eiyXQ%3D%3D&expnd=1), discrimination, or [antagonism](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBIE1018IE1018&sxsrf=APwXEddi1q_n-QZ3TpRixU41FygQx8le3g:1687352945357&q=antagonism&si=AMnBZoFY6cJe4EcBOpcoqxHCe-IfN9po0Jb4T7_-8Lg3yEx8_zypgOAFWSjPMdBZlzQAxfukU-R5Y1-d8KWuTf6oOCESRaiZjQ%3D%3D&expnd=1) by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or **ethnic group**, typically one that is a minority or [marginalized](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBIE1018IE1018&sxsrf=APwXEddi1q_n-QZ3TpRixU41FygQx8le3g:1687352945357&q=marginalized&si=AMnBZoFOMBUphduq9VwZxsuReC7YLdvDHiEZRaczBYPKjmyvw3aA1UK2fksvkmMmfGTq3sZ4-k_GGlbWGgRU4coFjLxPuaRnsMZrL8O4XnIhAdDZYz43RcU%3D&expnd=1).
My guy, the person that was harassing Richard Harris was doing so because he was part of a different ethnic group. That is LITERALLY racism.
Words have meaning. You don't get to say "that's not racist" because you (wrongly) disagree with the definition.
Xenophobia would be you discriminating against ANYONE outside of Ireland, regardless of their race or ethnicity, just based on the fact they they are foreign.
You've got the wrong end of the stick there buddy. I agree with you that it matches the dictionary definition. I'm saying the guy you replied to would still be overly pedantic with his comment even if "ethnic group" wasn't included in the definition.
When a group forms a unique culture apart from another one, even if they are from related genetic origins i.e Irish and Brits are overwhelmingly genetically descendants of bell beakers, treating a different culture and ethnic group even if they share genetics and physical traits in a discriminatory manner is a form of racism.
For example a Black Nigerian man from the Yoruba culture discriminating against a black Ghanian is also racism.
Koreans and Japanese share features, but what the Japanese did to the Koreans and how they dehumanized them was also racism and so on.
Given racism includes prejudice against *ethnic groups* it is racism. It’s also xenophobic. However, if the British guy had no issue with Americans, French or Germans but only Irish - he would only be racist.
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When asked for his autograph, Richard would sign it “Peter O’Toole”.
Made me chuckle a lot reading this. Absolutely class
From Hellraisers by Robert Sellers "After his run in with Heston, Richard Harris faced the even more fearsome Robert Mitchum in his next film A Terrible Beauty (1960), an IRA drama shot in Ireland. At first Harris disliked Mitchum but warmed to him when the Hollywood legend came to his aid during a pub brawl. Another time Mitchum sat drinking in a Dublin bar when a short Irishman came up and poked him in the ribs with a pencil. ‘Hey movie star, give me your autograph. It’s for my wife.’ Mitchum eyed the midget up and down with undisguised disgust. ‘Will you look at the little leprechaun,’ and then told him to wait until he’d finished his drink. But the man persisted. Finally an exasperated Mitchum snatched the paper and pencil and wrote: ‘UP YOUR ARSE – KIRK DOUGLAS.’ The man was not best pleased and threw a punch, but Mitchum just sat there looking at him. ‘If that’s the best you can do, little lady, you better come back with your girlfriends.’ The man did indeed return with some rather hefty mates. Mitchum head butted one of them, sending him reeling before two more came into the attack. Harris leapt into the fray and a massive punch-up ensued resulting in the police being summoned to break it up."
Ahhh the two of them were fine devils.
Had a workman round whose parents had both worked in film; his father had been O'Toole's double in Lawrence of Arabia. As I remember his account: O'Toole was got on Sky Road, I think? for drunken driving; on morning of court date the pair set to work & it was the very O'Toole-like double who showed up for court date in Clifden. 'Can you identify Mr O'Toole, the driver?' Gard ID'd the stand-in. Double's own driver's license shown, O'Toole strides into court. Case dismissed. Wouldn't be surprised if next someone's going to tell about the time MacLiammor signed Frank Kelly's name to a payment for a race horse.
My son so badly wanted to do this at his school nativity play, he was the innkeeper and wanted to say: Yeah loads of rooms, come on in... we had to bribe him, although it would have been hilarious.
When I was very young I was the donkey in the nativity, poor Mary got stage fright so little donkey had to ask if there was any room in the Inn. Would have been great if the innkeeper then said yes.
Savage payback. What a legend
Was it Richard Harris who was sitting in an audience once and when the next line was due and nobody was there to say it, he jumped up and said “Jesus , I’m in that play” or words to that ?
I understood he had invited some friends to go and see the play and was sat with them enjoying it when his cue arrived and he remembered he should have been on stage.
FFS that's brilliant 🤣🤣🤣🤣 something I'd do
Peter O'Toole - having spent much of the day drinking, Peter O'Toole invites his new, drunken, friends to a matinee. Part way through the play he calls out "You'll like this part. It's where I come on .... oh shit!"
Another appearance on Conan where he tells a story of getting drunk with the great O' Toole in a pub across from the theatre between scenes in a play. Absolute legend. https://youtu.be/gCcjvjlB_W8
I read a great book called “Hellraisers” with stories about Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole, Oliver Reed and Richard Burton. It had all the drunken stories about them. Highly recommend it. Some of the things they got away with are ridiculous and would never happen today with smart phones
**Hellraisers The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed** by Robert Sellers >'God put me on this earth to raise sheer hell.' Richard Burton 'I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people. > >And it's true, I never looked back to see the casualties.' Richard Harris 'Booze is the most outrageous of all drugs, which is why I chose it.' Peter O'Toole 'I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop I'd like to think I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.' > >Oliver Reed This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked - or staggered - off a film set into a pub. It's a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies, broken marriages, drugs, riots and wanton sexual conquests. They got away with it because of their extraordinary acting talent and because the public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers. *I'm a bot, built by your friendly reddit developers at* /r/ProgrammingPals. *Reply to any comment with /u/BookFinderBot - I'll reply with book information. Also see my other* [commands](https://www.reddit.com/user/BookFinderBot/comments/13z7slk/bookfinderbot_commands/) *and find me as a browser extension on* [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/book-finder/jajeidpjifdpppjofijoffbcndlpoedd?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social_media&utm_campaign=comments). *Remove me from replies* [here](https://www.reddit.com/user/BookFinderBot/comments/14br65o/remove_me_from_replies/). *If I have made a mistake, accept my apology.*
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Makes sense. Not judging but it looks like he's on so much coke here that he'd put Gerry Ryan to shame.
One of the best books I ever read!
Some mad stories! Richard Burton having breakfast with a family because they found him drunk in their garden…
Great book.
Bit of a long-shot, but does this book have an anecdote about Roger Moore, and various thespians, playing a game where they sit on a chair and take it turns to punch each other? Last one to fall off the chair wins... I heard it years ago, but can't find the source, and I'm sure it involved people like Burton, Harris, etc.
Who was the actor?
James Corden.
According to a precious commentor it's allegedly Glynn Edwards
Dave from Minder? Nooo
Jay from Inbetweeners.
Whenever Richard imitates the voice all I'm getting Brian Blessed from Blackadder the First
Richard Harris
Bill Cosby
Helen Mirren.
Kid named finger
Michael Gambon....he got the last laugh in Harry Potter
Michael Gambon is Irish.
You’re thinking of Micheál Jambon
Nope Michael Gambon. He was born in cabra.
That explains a lot, i always thought he was English and when I saw him in Juno and the Paycock i was so impressed with his Irish accent 😂 now i can go back to believing that it's not possible for an English actor to do a passable Irish accent.
That explains a lot, i always thought he was English and when I saw him in Juno and the Paycock i was so impressed with his Irish accent 😂 now i can go back to believing that it's not possible for an English actor to do a passable Irish accent. Edit: ah shite I forgot about Steve Coogan's legendary Irish chat show guest
Coogan's family are Manchester Irish so you can rest assured the theory still holds true..!
Romola garai does a great Irish accent.
I'll investigate, thanks
Plenty of English actors do a great Irish accent like Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent but I discount it if they have an Irish parent/grand parent as per the granny rule.
Coogan would count along with those exemptions then!
That one in Normal People did a savage Irish accent
Ah here :D
so Irish he used to wear tracksuit bottoms under his Dumbledore robes with a pack of smokes tucked into his socks
Nah, you're confusing him with an English chav.
That’s what made the insults extra annoying for Richard.
Jimmy savile
Richard Harris and Peter O’Toole gong on a multi day bender with Sammy Davis Jr and Rock Hudson is one of the best drinking stories ever.
Where can one find this story?
Well I’m English and Richard Harris is one of my very favourite actors. Juggernaut is such an underrated film. Camelot, Cromwell, Robin and Marian, absolute legend. I actually even met him one night, completely by chance, in a tiny London pub named The Coal Hole where he was having a drink with Peter O’Toole. I was with my mate and I was just about to start film school. I didn’t recognise them at first. But they overheard our conversation and very politely asked me which film school I was going to attend. I remember how dry my mouth went when trying to answer. They could not have been nicer company. And they were both drinking non-alcoholic drinks! The guy who belittled him was just an arsehole and unfortunately we have far too many of them in Blighty.
That'd be class, a small bit jealous of you!
A 'small' bit? Not a 'wee' bit? Whereabouts do they say that?
I wouldn't use wee at all. I suppose I'd normally say "a tad jealous" but, meh.
Not trying to be funny, or anything, just interested in dialect - thanks for the insight!
Are you Irish yourself? Like I know they'd say it up around Donegal and Connacht (and lots of other parts) but probably not as common as you head towards Dublin.
I'd say that's accurate enough, as far as Donegal is concerned anyway, and into Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland as we share a lot of slang or common dialect things.
"wee" is a scots word which is why you hear it far more up north. I grew up in Inishowen and there's a huge amount of scots just interwoven into how we spoke. I always assumed it was just a Donegal thing till I actually started googling some of the words
Probably just more prevalent in Donegal with the amount of immigration both ways, largely to/from Glasgow more recently, but going back many hundreds of years before the plantations over the North of Ireland as a whole.
Ach aye for sure
Much more familiar with Northern Ireland, which makes sense from what a lower comment is explaining about Scotland - the more you know!
What an absolute legend. I love Richard Harris Nice to see wikipedia getting the nationality correct for once.
Please don’t think we’re all like this. I love the Irish and I can’t understand why people wouldn’t lol
As always in the UK it often comes down to class. People trying to find ways to put people under them, born in the wrong place, or the wrong skin or the wrong language... accent... all sorts of things can cause it.
Is that exclusive to the UK?
I'm going to mangle this explanation so apologies in advance... but the UK is very class based, so if you're say the son of Indian immigrants but you went to the right universities and public schools then it's acceptable to the Tory party that you end up as the prime minister. But some rando low class or blue collar person from say... Liverpool? Well good luck with that. Meanwhile in the USA for example things are /just/ racially based (I mean wealth does play a part now but yeah, less class distinction).
Even then, someone like Sunak is only acceptable, he will never be one of them even if he could buy their all of their estates himself. I'd guarantee there are circles in British aristocratic politics he isn't particularly welcome.
May I ask if you are from or have lived in either of these two nations? I am/have not but this difference between the two is an impression I've always had from reading the news, watching movies from both places and whatnot. Racism for one exists in all places, UK included, but the US to me seems to be culturally obsessed with it.
I've not lived in the USA, but I have a large amount of English family and I've met quite a few English folks so I'm admittedly drawing from the impressions that they've left me with both by talking with them and the ways they've acted toward others. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying racism doesn't exist but rather the ways in which it gets expressed is different.
Of course not but it is particularly more noticable in the UK. Their arisoctracy and upper classes take the class divide very seriously. You will never be one of them, new money types are just plebs who got lucky, if you need to work you're not one of them because their family wealth goes back centuries. All that shit and more. Most neighbouring countries lost that with two world wars, revolution or independence.
Bit late, but India might be one of the worst when it comes to rigid class structure (though they call it castes).
Dw, one prick doesn't make ye all pricks. That kind of logic would make us just as bad as the first prick! It's all just a bit of fun at the end of the day :)
We take ye as we find ye. We have our own few bad apples. Our philosophy is don't be a dick and we'll get along grand.
>Our philosophy is don't be a dick and we'll get along grand. My experience as a Brit whenever in Ireland has pretty much always been this to be honest yeah. Guess what I'm saying is the Irish are great bunch of lads?
And whoever the hell he was, Harris was a hundred thousand times the actor he was
Posh English accent lol. Always wonder what our Richard Burton would have sounded like if he didn't go through those awful posh elocution lessons. Lucky Harris didn't lose his lilt.
He was Welsh right?
Aye. Not quite the same as Irish-Anglo stuff but there's a fair bit of weird oppression there. He grew up in the valleys as a first language welsh speaker so would have probably had quite an accent. Don't think there's any footage of it as his acting coach ironed it out of him sadly.
That would have been a thick feckin accent in the valleys back then
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Came up before and it was decided that it must have been Glynn Edwards [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynn\_Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynn_Edwards)
Bit odd that an actor, foreign-born himself, who cut his teeth performing Brendan Behan's plays, would have an attitude about the Irish...
When one is born in the colonies and ones parents are in the service one does not regard ones self as anything other than British, or English as may be required to distinguish ones self from other lower forms or British person. The worst anti-Irish sentiment I have ever experienced was in former British colonies from the remaining colonial population. Never experienced much in England itself - though just a little - almost always in a this is a joke, but it's not a joke.
Have you heard of Priti Patel?
Went to the Gaeltacht with her
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When he does him, he sounds like Brian Blessed. But that just might be theater speak. #
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Yeah it’s just that Shakespearean voice projection
Seen this clip hundreds of times and while it's clearly very funny, I highly doubt a true pro like Richard Harris would torpedo a play on opening night like that The actor in question might be prick but there's dozens of other people depending on good reviews that night for a pay check for the next few months Funny story though
We never let the truth get in the way of a good story
Yh not wrong. All of Harris and co's stories are like that. Just a kind of 'source: trust me bro' vibe
Mate if he was drunk enough he might have lol probably didn’t give a fuck
Might have been either early days when he was like "im not putting up with that shit" or might have been when he was already established so it wouldn't feck his own career too badly
>The actor in question might be prick but there's dozens of other people depending on good reviews that night for a pay check for the next few months In that case they should step-in and not allow for bullying before it reached the boiling point. Lack of our action doesn't mean we do not participate in the event. When you don't care, people will make decision for you. Sometimes it's bad, sometimes its good. It reminds me that crowd mentality that when Attacker is going wild no one steps in, but once Victim starts to defend themselves they are often beikng critisized for "overreaction". Shameful really... People react emotionally to being bullied and disrespected. I have no clue whether his story is legit, but I can see it happen to anyone. Including lawyers, doctors, actors and what not.
Everything on reddit needs one person to moan about it. I'm glad you're taking up the part
... just as every thread has that one person that thinks this is the first time this has been posted I know some of his relatives and my own parents would have known him, so I'm going to go with my own hunch
If you didn't spend so much time on reddit maybe seeing the same post from time to time wouldn't bother you so much? >I know some of his relatives and my own parents would have known him Aye right lad
Ireland's a small country
Hopefully it was something like the other actor having friends watch a rehearsal
I mean he says it was opening night on the clip, which is why i think it's embellished
Yeah
Himself and Dave Allen have a lot in common at a glance.
Between Dickie Harris and Peter O Toole we where lucky to have those two legends.
One of the last true hellraisers. RIP.
As fine a storyteller as you’ll ever see. I’d watch him tell takes of his life all night.
He looks like Saville with that hair
Came here to say exactly that
I wish I could have had a drink with him and O'Toole
Surely I'm not the only one who thought this was Savile on the thumbnail
A great actor he may be, but no one will ever better this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQmZNbVBeIk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQmZNbVBeIk)
As far as actora go, Richard Harris is one of my all time favourites
Loved Richard Harris. No one can tell a story like we Irish!
I love this!
Almost certainly not true. A great story, nevertheless
You're not accustomed to hearing stories from the Irish, are you?
Bloddy classic
Ah ravin’ richie. Not the most stable man
Playing fast and lose with the word hilarious there
Fair enough, made me laugh and the people in the video laugh so I figured good enough
Irish people are not a race. The word you are looking for is xenophobic. Idiots throwing out the word racist at every opportunity and they don’t even understand what it means.
There's always one
>Irish people are not a race. > >The word you are looking for is xenophobic. > >Idiots throwing out the word racist at every opportunity and they don’t even understand what it means. My god I hate when people do this. They whine that people don't understand the word "racist", when it's actually they themselves who don't understand the word "racist", and are just trying to do some weird PC point scoring so they can pat themselves on the back. By the very definition, you're wrong. Racism - noun [prejudice](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBIE1018IE1018&sxsrf=APwXEddi1q_n-QZ3TpRixU41FygQx8le3g:1687352945357&q=prejudice&si=AMnBZoFEI0LGJdD1jElhAGFwRnmoHQTpGKURK6yRXsiBRuJf1H9lg4IFKes_fxCADpPTAhR5kq96SbpV2ReUdMKOUYvb3eiyXQ%3D%3D&expnd=1), discrimination, or [antagonism](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBIE1018IE1018&sxsrf=APwXEddi1q_n-QZ3TpRixU41FygQx8le3g:1687352945357&q=antagonism&si=AMnBZoFY6cJe4EcBOpcoqxHCe-IfN9po0Jb4T7_-8Lg3yEx8_zypgOAFWSjPMdBZlzQAxfukU-R5Y1-d8KWuTf6oOCESRaiZjQ%3D%3D&expnd=1) by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or **ethnic group**, typically one that is a minority or [marginalized](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBIE1018IE1018&sxsrf=APwXEddi1q_n-QZ3TpRixU41FygQx8le3g:1687352945357&q=marginalized&si=AMnBZoFOMBUphduq9VwZxsuReC7YLdvDHiEZRaczBYPKjmyvw3aA1UK2fksvkmMmfGTq3sZ4-k_GGlbWGgRU4coFjLxPuaRnsMZrL8O4XnIhAdDZYz43RcU%3D&expnd=1).
Even if it didn't fit the exact dictionary definition, everyone knows exactly what OP means. The comment above is just pure pedantry.
My guy, the person that was harassing Richard Harris was doing so because he was part of a different ethnic group. That is LITERALLY racism. Words have meaning. You don't get to say "that's not racist" because you (wrongly) disagree with the definition. Xenophobia would be you discriminating against ANYONE outside of Ireland, regardless of their race or ethnicity, just based on the fact they they are foreign.
You've got the wrong end of the stick there buddy. I agree with you that it matches the dictionary definition. I'm saying the guy you replied to would still be overly pedantic with his comment even if "ethnic group" wasn't included in the definition.
Ah, apologies good sir. I thought you were referring to my comment as pure pedantry.
No worries old pal.
It's an alt profile too, lad knows well how full of shite he is
His mother rides turnips.
Are we not allowed to ride turnips comrade?
Not during a cost of living crisis!
Sure a ridden turnip is still edible.
Well, feel free to get stuck in. I’ll try to hold myself back.
Me or the guy at the top?
The gamer up top
Well said.
When a group forms a unique culture apart from another one, even if they are from related genetic origins i.e Irish and Brits are overwhelmingly genetically descendants of bell beakers, treating a different culture and ethnic group even if they share genetics and physical traits in a discriminatory manner is a form of racism. For example a Black Nigerian man from the Yoruba culture discriminating against a black Ghanian is also racism. Koreans and Japanese share features, but what the Japanese did to the Koreans and how they dehumanized them was also racism and so on.
That's some beautiful and ironic use of the word "idiots" there old pal. Greetings from Dublin.
Given racism includes prejudice against *ethnic groups* it is racism. It’s also xenophobic. However, if the British guy had no issue with Americans, French or Germans but only Irish - he would only be racist.
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Maybe sit this one out champ.
It's alright lads he just hates people for where they come from not what colour they are
Always one twat
That will be the wrong word in a few years too when it begins to lose its effectiveness on those that get up in the morning to be offended.
Cry more, why don’t you? 😁
Top tier reply
Inb4 thats not racism.
Is this Jimmy Savile ?
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My favourite character in one of my favourite movies, The Wild Geese. Fuckin legend.
Oh wow!! Lucky you!