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name: "Richard Harris"
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born: "1 January 1934"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T18:08:59.870792+00:00"
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# Richard Harris

Writer. Born 1 January 1934 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1934, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 1961–1975
- **Works often with:** Bill Bain, Douglas Camfield, Jim Goddard, Roger Marshall, Alan Gibson, Ben Bolt

## Biography

Richard Harris is a British screenwriter and playwright. Born on 26 March 1934 in London, he began writing freelance episodes for British television in the early 1960s and remained active until the mid-1990s. He contributed scripts primarily to crime and detective series, including episodes of *The Avengers* (1961), *Public Eye* (1965) and *The Sweeney* (1975).

Harris helped create or co-create several programmes in the genre, such as *Man in a Suitcase* (1967), *Adam Adamant Lives!* (1966) and *Shoestring* (1979). He wrote the first series of *A Touch of Frost* (1992) and episodes of *The Last Detective* (2003). His stage plays include *Outside Edge*, which he adapted for television and for which he received the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for best situation comedy in 1994, and *Stepping Out* (1991).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Sweeney* (1975), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sweeney.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Play for Today* (1970), Writer
- *Public Eye* (1965), Writer
- *The Avengers* (1961), Writer

## Also known for

- *Sherlock Holmes* (1984), Adaptation
- *The Saint* (1962), Writer
- *A Touch of Frost* (1992), Writer, Screenplay

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