
George Harrison
Born February 25, 1943 · Liverpool, England, UK
George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Life of Brian

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

A Hard Day's Night

The Beach Boys

Beatles '64

Man on the Run

Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands

Yellow Submarine

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

Shanghai Surprise

If These Walls Could Sing

Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan

Help!

My Generation

Naqoyqatsi

How the Beatles Changed the World

Evolver 62

The Movie Orgy

Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed

Water

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

I Wanna Hold Your Hand
TV Shows

The Dick Cavett Show

Wogan

Champs-Elysées

The Ed Sullivan Show

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Omnibus

Timewatch

Classic Albums

Morecambe & Wise

Disco

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

History 101

Sherwood

This Is Pop

The Beatles

The Beatles Anthology

The Beatles: Get Back

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

20th Century Greats

Elvis Presley: The Searcher

Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)

McCartney 3, 2, 1

In Their Own Words

David Frost Vs

The 60s: The Beatles Decade
More Movies

No Hamburg, No Beatles

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash

James Bond: The First 21 Years

Let It Be

Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars

The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn

Magical Mystery Tour

Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.

Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

Imagine: John Lennon

The Society of the Spectacle

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

Checking Out

Ringo

Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres

Awake: The Life of Yogananda

The Beatles and India

Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution

An Accidental Studio

Superswede: A film about Ronnie Peterson

The Summer of Love

Pop Gear

The Day the Music Died

Meeting the Beatles in India

Imagine

In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story

The Movie Life of George

Concert for George

Magical Mystery Tour Revisited

The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper

The Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany

Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales

Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration

The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert

Doctor Who: The Chase

Take Your Pills

Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC

Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle

The Prince's Trust Rock Gala

This Is Elvis

The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One

The Concert for Bangladesh

I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern

Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream

Raga

Doctor Who: Origins

Curves Contours & Body Horns

George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison

Jimi Plays Monterey

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

Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back

Palme

Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon

THE BEATLES in HELP!

Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond

Hagström: Allt i musik

The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One

The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit

Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal

Elvis: King of Entertainment

Muhammad Ali, the Greatest

El Rey en Londres

La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024

Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies

The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere

The Beatles Mod Odyssey

TWST / Things We Said Today

The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three

Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 2

Things They Said Today

The Beatles In America

Beatles: Big Beat Box

John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky

The Beatles: A Celebration

A Love Letter to the Beatles

Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album

What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA

The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3

Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind

The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution

Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album

Night Lunch

The Music of Lennon & McCartney

The Beatles: Abbey Road

Rare and Unseen: The Beatles

Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1

Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever

Project 9: The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band

The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary

You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'

The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys

The Beatles at Shea Stadium

Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2

Mighty Good: The Beatles

George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited

The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries

Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison

The Beatles: Around the World

ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff

The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories

The Beatles - 1967-1970

The Beatles 1+

Wingspan

The Beatles: Live in Paris

Monument

The Beatles Sing for Shell

Good Ol' Freda

Louder Than Rock

Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties

The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two

Fun with the Fab Four

The Compleat Beatles

The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool

The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2

Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits

Carl Perkins & Friends: Blue Suede Shoes - A Rockabilly Session

To John With Love

Genius

George Harrison - All Things Pass

The Beatles on Record

The Beatles and the BBC

George Harrison: Live at The Royal Albert Hall

John Lennon: Love Is All You Need

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

The Beatles Explosion

All My Loving

Our World

Free to Rock

The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland

Badfinger - They Sold A Million

The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent

The Bannfoot Ferry

The Beatles: Up Close and Personal

The Beatles 1

The Beatles

Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle

Ringo Starr: One of Them

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York

The Mersey Sound

Beatles Stories

Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles

The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles

George Harrison: In Performance

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

Året var 1963

Around the Beatles

The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere

The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966)

24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko

The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum

The Beatles Phenomenon

The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2

Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965

Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel

Beatles: The Journey

Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970

14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988

Roy Orbison at the BBC

The Beatles: Destination Hamburg

The Beatles: The Complete Story

The Beatles: Something

Beatles Biggest Secrets

Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live

The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4

The Beatles Come to Town

Meet the Beatles

The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos

George Harrison: Live in North America 1974

Building the Beatles

Reflections on Love

Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Live In Denmark 1969

The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road

The Beatles Story

The Beatles: Revolution

The Beatles: Their Golden Age

The Beatles in Australia

The Beatles: Parting Ways

The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction

Beatles Electroniques

Beatles på Sverigeturné

Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All

The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966

The Beatles: Love

George Harrison - The Quiet one

The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966

The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands

The Beatles Unauthorized

The Beatles - Trilogy

The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!

The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966)

The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1

George Harrison: Live in Japan

My Sweet Lord in the Far East

Inside the Beatles: 1962-1970

The Winged Beetle

Becoming the Beatles

George Harrison: The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992

George Harrison: All things must pass

Understanding Lennon/McCartney

Året var 1967

Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India

George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75




