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 Beatle ... s, 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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The Simpsons
as George Harrison (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 17, 1989
Sherwood
as Nikko
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 13, 2022
The Beatles
as Self (vocals musical segments) (uncredited)
Episodes: 52
First Aired: Sep 25, 1965
Top of the Pops
as Self
Episodes: 9
First Aired: Jan 01, 1964
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Oct 18, 2009
McCartney 3, 2, 1
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Jul 16, 2021
20th Century Greats
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Nov 27, 2004
The Beatles: Get Back
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Nov 25, 2021
The Beatles Anthology
as Self
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Nov 19, 1995
This Is Pop
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Mar 06, 2021
Disco
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 13, 1971
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Apr 14, 2018
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Nov 12, 2011
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 12, 1975
Champs-Elysées
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 16, 1982
Top of the Pops
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 01, 1964
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 11, 1975
Omnibus
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 13, 1967
Wogan
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 04, 1982
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self (uncredited)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 05, 1967
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 20, 1948
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 21, 2021
History 101
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 22, 2020
Classic Albums
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 14, 1997
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 06, 1968
Timewatch
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1982
Morecambe & Wise (multiple series)
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 12, 1961
Doctor Who
as Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 23, 1963
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