George Harrison, MBE 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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| 1 | Beatles '64 (2024) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 2 | Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands (2024) | Self (archive footage) | 9 | |
| 3 | The Beach Boys (2024) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 4 | Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song (2023) | Self (archive footage) | 9 | |
| 5 | Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback (2023) | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
| 6 | If These Walls Could Sing (2022) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 7 | The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert (2022) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 8 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022) | Self (archive footage) | 5 | |
| 9 | Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind (2019) | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
| 10 | Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2018) | Self | - | - |
| 11 | ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff (2018) | Self (archive footage) | 5 | |
| 12 | Take Your Pills (2018) | Self (archive footage) | 4.3 | |
| 13 | How the Beatles Changed the World (2017) | Self (archive footage) | 5.5 | |
| 14 | My Generation (2017) | Self (archive footage) | 9 | |
| 15 | Superswede: A film about Ronnie Peterson (2017) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 16 | It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond (2017) | Self (archive footage) | 5.5 | |
| 17 | Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled (2014) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 18 | Good Ol' Freda (2013) | Self (archive footage) | 5 | |
| 19 | Beatles Stories (2011) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 20 | Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison (2010) | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 21 | The Beatles on Record (2009) | Self | 7 | |
| 22 | Rare and Unseen: The Beatles (2008) | Self (archive footage) | 6 | |
| 23 | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream (2007) | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 24 | The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (2003) | Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer (archive footage) | 5 | |
| 25 | Concert for George (2003) | Self (archive footage) | 9 | |
| 26 | Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized (2003) | Self (archive footage) | 4 | |
| 27 | Naqoyqatsi (2002) | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 7.6 | |
| 28 | You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' (1995) | Self | - | - |
| 29 | Imagine: John Lennon (1988) | Self | 7 | |
| 30 | Checking Out (1988) | Cleaner | - | - |
| 31 | Jimi Plays Monterey (1987) | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
| 32 | Shanghai Surprise (1986) | Nightclub Singer | 5 | |
| 33 | Water (1985) | Himself - The Singing Rebels' Band | 8 | |
| 34 | The Compleat Beatles (1982) | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 35 | This Is Elvis (1981) | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | - | - |
| 36 | Life of Brian (1979) | Mr. Papadopolous (uncredited) | 8.1 | |
| 37 | Ringo (1978) | George Harrison | - | - |
| 38 | I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) | Self (archive footage) | 5 | |
| 39 | The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978) | The Interviewer (Jimmy “The Wallasey Warbler” Climmer) | 7 | |
| 40 | The Society of the Spectacle (1974) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 41 | The Concert for Bangladesh (1972) | Self | 9 | |
| 42 | Let It Be (1970) | Self - The Beatles (uncredited) | 8 | |
| 43 | The Movie Orgy (1968) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 44 | Yellow Submarine (1968) | George (uncredited) | 7 | |
| 45 | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | Director / Writer | 6.3 | |
| 46 | Help! (1965) | George | 6.8 | |
| 47 | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | George | 7.2 |
