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“Then he’d notice that the people on the other side were listening and he’s push his chair back a little further. “So he’d push his chair back a little bit to give them permission to join in and he’d bring them into the conversation,” he said. I remember many times we’d be in a restaurant and he’d start telling a story and notice that the table next to him had stopped talking and was eavesdropping. “He enjoyed the attention he would get in public. “He was a very private person, which is bizarre because he loved the public sphere so much,” Jared said. “Ghost” also examines the dichotomy of Harris’ personality - someone who craved privacy but lived his life as a very open book.

©Warner Bros/courtesy Everett C Harris with his second wife, Anne Turkel, in 1981 at a party for music producer Richard Perry at the Rainbow Room. “That was his education … when he got sick had to sort of teach himself about literature - and that came from reading.” Richard Harris as Dumbledore (with Maggie Smith and Miriam Margolyes) in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” (2002). “That came from the two years he spent getting over TB,” he said.

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When we were on holidays, after four days with everyone he’d get a little bit fed up with the family dynamic, if you like, and he’d go off to his room … he’d bring a suitcase full of books and he would go up to his room and read books for three or four days. “He would describe it as being ‘obsessive’ about it. “Whatever he was into he was into without reservation or hesitation,” Jared said. “Ghost” also takes an unflinching look at the actor’s very public indulgences that kept him in the headlines for all the wrong reasons throughout his life. “Her opinion was that, in some way, it made him feel he had to live every moment in life - that nothing is guaranteed for anybody.” First of all, his two elder sisters both died young, then there was a war on and people were dying. “If you read my mother’s autobiography … Dad was weirdly obsessed with death. “I do think it’s true that he was running away from everything,” Jared said. They’re both interviewed in “The Ghost of Richard Harris” along with their younger brother, Jamie. Richard Harris with his sons, Jared (left) and Damian, in 1966. The documentary, replete with archival footage and photographs of Harris dating back to his childhood in Ireland, uses his unapologetic approach to life - “I drank because I loved it,” “I’m a jockey on this wild horse,” “I’m not running away from anything” - as a jumping-off point to delve into what drove him to excess. “The Ghost of Richard Harris,” premiering May 9 on BritBox, features interviews with Jared Harris, 61 (“Mad Men,” “Chernobyl”), his brothers Damian, 64 and Jamie, 59, and Russell Crowe, Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Rea, Malachy McCourt, Dick Cavett and acclaimed songwriter Phil Coulter, among others. Harris died in 2002 at the age of 72 from Hodgkin’s disease.

He originated the role of Dumbledore in “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” and “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” The Irish-born Richard Harris (known as “Dickie Harris” in his native country), snared Oscar nominations for “ This Sporting Life” (1963) and “ The Field” (1991) - and famously crooned Jimmy Webb’s “MacArthur Park,” for which he garnered a 1969 Grammy nomination. “All I can come up with is Dad never apologized for it and the other two did … and I think, in some way, people felt you can’t have it both ways.” Richard Harris in London in 1970 during his divorce proceedings from his first wife, Elizabeth Rees-Williams. “That part of him, that hell-raising image, had overcome all of his other achievements and his reputation, in a way that hasn’t happened to Burton or O’Toole,” his son, veteran actor Jared Harris, told The Post. “The Ghost of Richard Harris,” directed by Adrian Sibley, takes a deep dive into the life of the hard-living two-time Oscar nominee - still identified more for his public carousing (drinking, drugs, women) than for his prodigious talent.

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