George Harrison
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.
Movies (226)
Man on the Run
2026
Evolver 62
2026
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
2025
A Love Letter to the Beatles
2025
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
2025
TWST / Things We Said Today
2025
The Beatles
2025
La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
2024
No Hamburg, No Beatles
2024
Beatles '64
2024
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
2024
The Bannfoot Ferry
2024
The Beach Boys
2024
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
2023
The Beatles and the BBC
2023
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
2023
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023
Louder Than Rock
2023
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
Roy Orbison at the BBC
2023
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
2022
If These Walls Could Sing
2022
Ringo Starr: One of Them
2022
Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
2022
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
2022
The Beatles and India
2021
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
2021
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
2020
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
2020
Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
2019
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
2019
An Accidental Studio
2019
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2
2019
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1
2019
Understanding Lennon/McCartney
2018
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
2018
ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff
2018
The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
2018
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018
George Harrison - All Things Pass
2018
Take Your Pills
2018
14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
2018
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017
My Generation
2017
Superswede: A film about Ronnie Peterson
2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
The Summer of Love
2017
Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All
2017
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
2017
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
2017
Free to Rock
2017
Året var 1967
2017
Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
2016
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016
George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison
2016
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
2015
The Beatles 1
2015
The Beatles 1+
2015
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
2014
George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75
2014
Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled
2014
Beatles på Sverigeturné
2014
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Live In Denmark 1969
2014
Badfinger - They Sold A Million
2013
Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
2013
Good Ol' Freda
2013
Året var 1963
2013
Genius
2012
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
2012
Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO
2012
Palme
2012
The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966
2012
The Beatles: Their Golden Age
2012
Becoming the Beatles
2012
The Winged Beetle
2012
Beatles Stories
2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1
2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4
2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3
2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2
2011
I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
2011
The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
2011
Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies
2010
Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India
2010
The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles
2010
Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
2010
John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
2010
The Beatles: The Complete Story
2010
The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere
2009
The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries
2009
The Beatles on Record
2009
The Beatles: Parting Ways
2009
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
2008
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
2008
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970
2008
The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland
2008
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965
2008
George Harrison: In Performance
2008
The Beatles: Up Close and Personal
2008
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
2007
THE BEATLES in HELP!
2007
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
2007
The Beatles Phenomenon
2007
The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
2007
The Beatles Explosion
2007
The Beatles In America
2007
The Beatles: Love
2006
To John With Love
2006
Doctor Who: Origins
2006
George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited
2005
The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2
2005
The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
2005
Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits
2005
The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
2005
Meet the Beatles
2005
Beatles Biggest Secrets
2004
George Harrison: All things must pass
2004
George Harrison: The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992
2004
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
2004
The Beatles: Around the World
2003
Concert for George
2003
Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
2003
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
2003
Beatles: The Journey
2003
Hagström: Everything in Music
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road
2003
The Beatles - Trilogy
2003
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002
Things They Said Today
2002
Naqoyqatsi
2002
George Harrison - The Quiet one
2002
Elvis: King of Entertainment
2002
Beatles: Big Beat Box
2001
Wingspan
2001
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
2000
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
1999
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
1999
The Beatles: A Celebration
1999
The Beatles Story
1996
The Beatles Unauthorized
1996
Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
1996
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
1995
Curves Contours & Body Horns
1993
Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live
1993
Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
1993
The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
1992
George Harrison: Live at The Royal Albert Hall
1992
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
1992
George Harrison: Live in Japan
1991
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
1991
My Sweet Lord in the Far East
1991
The Prince's Trust Rock Gala
1990
The Movie Life of George
1989
Checking Out
1988
Imagine: John Lennon
1988
Jimi Plays Monterey
1987
Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 2
1987
Shanghai Surprise
1986
Fun with the Fab Four
1986
Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties
1986
Carl Perkins & Friends: Blue Suede Shoes - A Rockabilly Session
1985
Water
1985
James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983
The Compleat Beatles
1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
This Is Elvis
1981
Life of Brian
1979
Ringo
1978
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
1978
Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel
1978
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
1977
Mighty Good: The Beatles
1977
The Day the Music Died
1977
Night Lunch
1975
George Harrison: Live in North America 1974
1974
The Society of the Spectacle
1974
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
1974
Imagine
1972
The Concert for Bangladesh
1972
Raga
1971
Let It Be
1970
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
1969
The Beatles: Something
1969
The Beatles: Abbey Road
1969
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One
1969
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three
1969
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two
1969
Beatles Electroniques
1969
The Beatles Mod Odyssey
1968
All My Loving
1968
The Beatles: Revolution
1968
Yellow Submarine
1968
The Movie Orgy
1968
Magical Mystery Tour
1967
Our World
1967
Monument
1967
Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
1967
El Rey en Londres
1966
The Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany
1966
The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966)
1966
The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966)
1966
The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966
1966
Reflections on Love
1966
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965
The Beatles: Live in Paris
1965
Help!
1965
Doctor Who: The Chase
1965
Pop Gear
1965
What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
1964
The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands
1964
A Hard Day's Night
1964
The Beatles Sing for Shell
1964
The Beatles in Australia
1964
Around the Beatles
1964
The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum
1964
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
1964
The Beatles Come to Town
1963
The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool
1963
The Mersey Sound
1963
The Beatles - 1967-1970
TV Shows (31)
David Frost Vs
2025
Sherwood
2022
The Beatles: Get Back
2021
McCartney 3, 2, 1
2021
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
This Is Pop
2021
History 101
2020
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
2018
In Their Own Words
2015
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
2009
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008
20th Century Greats
2004
Classic Albums
1997
The Beatles Anthology
1995
The Simpsons
1989
Timewatch
1982
Wogan
1982
Champs-Elysées
1982
Saturday Night Live
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Disco
1971
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Omnibus
1967
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1967
The Beatles
1965
Top of the Pops
1964
Top of the Pops
1964
Doctor Who
1963
Morecambe & Wise
1961
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948