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Donald Jasper Harris was born in Brown's Town, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, the son of Oscar Joseph Harris and Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan), [8] [9] who were Afro-Jamaicans. [10] [11] As a child, Harris learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed in the Anglican Church, and served as an acolyte. [12]
Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) [3] was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave.
Patricia Roberts Harris (May 31, 1924 – March 23, 1985) was an American politician, diplomat, and legal scholar. She served as the 6th United States secretary of housing and urban development from 1977 to 1979 and as the 13th United States secretary of health and human services [ a ] from 1979 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter .
David Victor Harris (February 28, 1946 – February 6, 2023) was an American journalist and activist. After becoming an icon in the movement against the Vietnam War, organizing civil disobedience against military conscription and refusing his own orders to report for military duty, for which he was imprisoned for almost two years, Harris went on to a 50-year career as a distinguished ...
Cal Harris, a Vestal High School graduate [5] who later became a star attackman and four-year letterman [6] for the Hobart College men's lacrosse NCAA Division III champion teams [7] in the early 1980s, [8] [9] met Michele Anne Taylor, who had earned an associate's degree from the State University of New York at Morrisville, [10] later in the decade when she worked on the lot of one of the car ...
Jean Struven Harris (April 27, 1923 – December 23, 2012) was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, who made national news in the early 1980s when she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet.
Harris was born on November 13, 1930, in Cotton County, Oklahoma, near Walters, Oklahoma, the son of Eunice Alene (Pearson) and Fred Byron Harris, a sharecropper. [1] His parents disagreed on whether his middle name should be "Ray" or "Roy", and his handwritten birth certificate was ambiguous, allowing Harris to choose; he eventually used his mother's preferred name, Roy.
(His obituary distributed via United Press International says that he played the role of Jake Goldberg in 1953-1954.) [1] In 1957, Harris played the lead role in The Court of Last Resort. He also made many guest appearances in many other TV series.