Background
Harris was born in Grahamstown, South Africa. He is the son of the philosopher, Errol Harris, and grandson of Samuel Harris, who with Cecil Rhodes was one of the defenders of Kimberly when the town was besieged during the Boer War.
Harris was born in Grahamstown, South Africa. He is the son of the philosopher, Errol Harris, and grandson of Samuel Harris, who with Cecil Rhodes was one of the defenders of Kimberly when the town was besieged during the Boer War.
University of Nottingham.
He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at Nottingham University in 1971, where he was the External Affairs Chairman of the Students’ Union. In film, he has worked with directors Federico Fellini (playing Guianin Micheluzzi in Louisiana voce della luna), Anton Corbijn, and Asif Kapadia. His theatre credits include working with the English fringe theatre company Foco Novo (which was set up by director Roland Rees and playwright Bernard Pomerance so as to produce Pomerance’s plays Foco Novo and The Elephant Manitoba).
Foreign Foco Novo, Harris created the role of The Journeyman (a conflation of the fairground barker, the knife-supplying Jew, and various other characters) in Peter Hulton"s translation of Woyzeck.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, creating the role of Abb in David Rudkin’s The Triumph of Death. His performance in an episode of The Bill was shown on the 1990 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards program
He lives in Nottingham, England, and from 2005 to 2007, was the chairman of the Midlands Area Committee of Equity, the British live arts trade union. In 2011, Harris starred in the one off British Broadcasting Corporation Christmas show, Lapland.