Richard Harris in London hospital
Richard Harris, who stars as Albus Dumbledore in the “Harry Potter” movies, has been hospitalized in London after treatment for cancer, his agent said Tuesday.
The veteran Irish actor fell ill in August after shooting the second film in the series, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” and went to a hospital with a severe chest infection, said his London agent, Sharon Thomas. She said the 72-year-old has been at University College Hospital for two months, where he’s had a course of chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system.
Thomas said Harris is due to be released soon and would be available for the third movie based on author J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard.
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