George Harrison

George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 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.

Filmography of George Harrison

  • Man on the Run (2026)
  • Evolver 62 (2026)
  • The Beatles (2025)
  • TWST / Things We Said Today (2025)
  • A Love Letter to the Beatles (2025)
  • The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn (2025)
  • The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution (2025)
  • The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere (2025)
  • David Frost Vs (2025)
  • The Beach Boys (2024)
  • The Bannfoot Ferry (2024)
  • Beatles '64 (2024)
  • Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands (2024)
  • No Hamburg, No Beatles (2024)
  • La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024 (2024)
  • Roy Orbison at the BBC (2023)
  • The Lost Weekend: A Love Story (2023)
  • Louder Than Rock (2023)
  • Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC (2023)
  • Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback (2023)
  • Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song (2023)
  • The Beatles and the BBC (2023)
  • Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan (2023)
  • The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert (2022)
  • The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction (2022)
  • If These Walls Could Sing (2022)
  • Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022)
  • Ringo Starr: One of Them (2022)
  • Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles (2022)
  • Sherwood (2022)
  • The Beatles and India (2021)
  • 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (2021)
  • Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres (2021)
  • The Beatles: Get Back (2021)
  • This Is Pop (2021)
  • McCartney 3, 2, 1 (2021)
  • Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon (2020)
  • Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band (2020)
  • Meeting the Beatles in India (2020)
  • History 101 (2020)