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George Harrison

George Harrison

Birthday: 1943-02-25 | Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert

as    Self (archive footage)

2021
The Beatles: Get Back

as    Self (archive footage)

2020
Meeting the Beatles in India

as    Self (archive footage)

2019
An Accidental Studio

as    Self (archive footage)

2016
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

as    Self (archive footage)

2015
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One

as    Self (archive footage)

2014
Awake: The Life of Yogananda

as    Self (archive footage)

2014
Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled

as    Self (archive footage)

2013
Good Ol' Freda

as    Self (archive footage)

2012
Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO

as    Self (archive footage)

2011
George Harrison: Living in the Material World

as    Self (archive footage)

2011
The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos

as    Self (archive footage)

2010
The Beatles: A Magical History Tour

as    Self (archive footage)

2009
The Beatles on Record

as    Self

2008
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles

as    Self (archive footage)

2007
The Beatles: Help!

as    Self (archive footage)

2007
2005
The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary

as    Self (archive footage)

2004
The Beatles: Watching Rainbows

as    Self (archive footage)

2002
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.

as    Self (archive footage)

1999
The Beatles: A Celebration

as    Self (archive footage)

1996
Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary

as    Self (archive footage)

1995
The Beatles Anthology

as    Himself