George Harrison

George Harrison

  • Birthday: 1943-02-25
  • Deathday: 2001-11-29
  • Place of birth: Liverpool, England, UK
  • Also know as: The Beatles

Biography

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.

Filmography

Help!

1965

As George

George Harrison - The Quiet one

2002

As Self (archive footage)

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

2011

As Self (archive footage)

George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75

2014

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary

1994

As Self (archive footage)

An Accidental Studio

2019

As Self (archive footage)

George Harrison - All Things Pass

2018

As Self (archive footage)

Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles

1974

As Self (archive footage)

What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA

1964

As Self - The Beatles Member

George Harrison: All things must pass

2004

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Watching Rainbows

2004

As Self (archive footage)

Reflections on Love

1966

As Self (archive footage)

Raga

1971

As Self

Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album

2016

As Self (archive footage)

How the Beatles Changed the World

2017

As Self (archive footage)

Beatles: The Journey

2003

As Self (archive footage)

Our World

1967

As Self

Roy Orbison At The BBC

2023

As Self (archive footage)

HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC. What is Rock Music?

2022

As Self (archive footage)

A Hard Day's Night

1964

As George Harrison

Let It Be

1970

As Self (The Beatles) (uncredited)

Magical Mystery Tour

1967

As Self / Magician Looking Through Telescope

The Beatles: A Magical History Tour

2010

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Help!

2007

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos

2011

As Self (archive footage)

The Mersey Sound

1963

As Self

The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary

2005

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: A Celebration

1999

As Self (archive footage)

Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary

1996

As Self (archive footage)

Awake: The Life of Yogananda

2014

As Self (archive footage)

Rare and Unseen: The Beatles

2008

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles 1

2015

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles 1+

2015

As Self (archive footage)

British Rock: The First Wave

1985

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2

2005

As Self - guitarra solista, vocalista

The Compleat Beatles

1982

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent

1969

As Self (archive footage)

Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution

2017

As Self (archive footage)

Night Lunch

1975

As Self

The Beatles: Destination Hamburg

2007

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit

1991

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles Story

1996

As Self (archive footage)

Magical Mystery Tour Revisited

2012

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4

2011

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere

2009

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2

2011

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3

2011

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1

2011

As Self (archive footage)

Around the Beatles

1964

As Self

Meeting the Beatles in India

2020

As Self (archive footage)

Beatles Biggest Secrets

2004

As Self (archive footage)

The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One

2015

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Love

2006

As Self

The Music of Lennon & McCartney

1965

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert

2022

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles and India

2021

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles Explosion

2007

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles - Abbey Road

1969

As Self - guitar, vocals

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York

1964

As Self (archive footage)

Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC

2023

As Self (archive footage)

Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song

2023

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles and the BBC

2023

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles - 1967-1970

0000

As Self (archive footage)

Understanding Lennon/McCartney

2018

As Self (archival footage)

Beatles på Sverigeturné

2014

As Self (archive footage)

Beatles chronology (1962-1970)

2016

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles Unauthorized

1965

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Around the World

2003

As Self (archive footage)

Fun with the Fab Four

1986

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years

2010

As Self (archive footage)

Hagström: Everything in Music

2003

As Self (archive footage)

Beatles: Big Beat Box

2001

As Self (archive footage)

Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1

2019

As Self (archive footage)

The Winged Beetle

2012

As Self

John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky

2018

As Self (archive footage)

ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff

2018

As Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Budokan Tokyo 1966

2009

As Self (lead and backing vocals, lead guitar)

Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon

2020

As Self (archive footage)

Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle

2019

As Self (archive footage)

Beatles Stories

2011

As Self (archive footage)

Wingspan

2001

As Himself (archive footage)

All My Loving

1968

As Self

Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2

2019

As Self (archive footage)

Monument

1967

As Self (archive footage)

John Lennon: Love Is All You Need

2010

As Self (archive footage)

Things They Said Today

2002

As Self (archive footage)

Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'

1992

As Self (archive footage)

Genius

2012

As Self (archive footage)

Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.

2002

As Self (archive footage)

Jimi Plays Monterey

1987

As Self (archive footage)

Free to Rock

2017

As Self - The Beatles (archive footage)

Imagine

1972

As Self

Music Genres. Voices of the World

2023

As Self (archive footage)

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash

1978

As The Interviewer (Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer)

Good Ol' Freda

2013

As Self (archive footage)

Ringo

1978

As George Harrison

Yellow Submarine

1968

As George (uncredited)

The Movie Orgy

1968

As Self (archive footage)

The Society of the Spectacle

1974

As Self (archive footage)

Die Beatles

1966

As Self (as The Beatles)

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

2023

As Self (archive footage)

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

2023

As Self (archive footage)

Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO

2012

As Self (archive footage)

Naqoyqatsi

2002

As Self (archive footage)

El Rey en Londres

1966

As Self (archive footage)

Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized

2003

As Self (archive footage)

Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales

1999

As Self (archive footage / uncredited)

Water

1985

As Himself - The Singing Rebels' Band

Shanghai Surprise

1986

As Nightclub Singer

Louder Than Rock

2023

As Self (archive footage)

Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind

2019

As Self (archive footage)

Checking Out

1989

As Cleaner (uncredited)

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

2017

As Self - Musician (archive footage)

Pop Gear

1965

As Self

Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled

2014

As Self (archive footage)

Paul Newman: The Restless

2023

As Self (archive footage)

Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle

2004

As Self (archive footage)

Doctor Who: Origins

2006

As Self (archive footage)

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

1982

As Self (archive footage)

Life of Brian

1979

As Mr. Papadopolous (uncredited)

If These Walls Could Sing

2023

As Self (archive footage)

My Generation

2017

As Self (archive footage)

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

1978

As Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

2022

As Self (archive Footage)

The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch

2003

As Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Chase

1965

As Self (archive footage)

Take Your Pills

2018

As Self (archive footage)

This Is Elvis

1981

As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Production

Magical Mystery Tour

1967

As Director

The Beatles: SOMETHING

1969

As Director

Mona Lisa

1986

As Executive Producer

Nuns on the Run

1990

As Producer

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

1982

As Executive Producer

Magical Mystery Tour

1967

As Producer

Track 29

1988

As Executive Producer

Bellman and True

1987

As Executive Producer

The Raggedy Rawney

1988

As Executive Producer

Time Bandits

1981

As Executive Producer

Cold Dog Soup

1990

As Executive Producer

Life of Brian

1979

As Executive Producer

Powwow Highway

1989

As Executive Producer

Withnail & I

1987

As Executive Producer

A Private Function

1984

As Executive Producer

Checking Out

1989

As Executive Producer

Water

1985

As Executive Producer

Shanghai Surprise

1986

As Executive Producer

Privates on Parade

1983

As Producer

Bullshot

1983

As Producer

Let It Be

1970

As Executive Producer

The Missionary

1982

As Executive Producer

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

1989

As Executive Producer

Five Corners

1987

As Executive Producer

Scrubbers

1982

As Executive Producer

Magical Mystery Tour

1967

As Original Music Composer

Time Bandits

1981

As Music

Everest

1998

As Music

Wonderwall

1968

As Original Music Composer

Shanghai Surprise

1986

As Songs

Shanghai Surprise

1986

As Theme Song Performance

Time Bandits

1981

As Theme Song Performance

Shanghai Surprise

1986

As Music

Across the Universe

2007

As Songs

Yesterday

2019

As Songs

Help!

1965

As Songs

Yellow Submarine

1968

As Songs

Magical Mystery Tour

1967

As Songs

Let It Be

1970

As Songs

Revolution

1967

As Songs

Magical Mystery Tour

1967

As Writer

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