Richard Harrison (born May 26, 1936) is an American actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in European B-movies during the 1960s and 1970s, and exploitation films of the early 1970s.

Harrison has also worked with a variety of co-stars ranging from Anita Ekberg, Michèle Mercier, Klaus Kinski, Fernando Sanco, and Helmut Berger to popular actors such as Mike Monty and Romano Kristoff.

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Harrison moved to Los Angeles at 17, where he was first employed at the Vic Tanny and Bert Goodrich gyms.

Next, Harrison worked at Twentieth Century Fox under acting coach Sandy Meisner, where he made an appearance at the beginning of South Pacific along with Tom Laughlin and Ron Ely.

Formal acting studies differentiated Harrison from other muscular American actors working in Italy in the early 1960s, such as Brad Harris and Steve Reeves, with whom he is often grouped.

Harrison's most well-known film from his early career is the western Gunfight at Red Sands (Duello Nel Texas), directed by Ricardo Blasco in 1963.

He began appearing in lower-budget movies shot all over the world: In Egypt (You Can Do a Lot with 7 Women, 1971), with the Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong starring in the title role of Marco Polo (1975) and playing the German commander von Waldersee in The Boxer Rebellion (1976).

Harrison also mentions that the Silver Star films he acted in didn't have complete shooting scripts, and many scenes were improvised on the spot, contributing to their disjointed narrative.

Mike Monty, an old acquaintance of Harrison from the Italian days who had migrated to the archipelago, James Gaines, Romano Kristoff, Bruce Baron, Ann Milhench, and others.

Harrison struck a friendship with Kristoff, one of the leading Silver Star actors, and later invited him to Italy to act in a film he produced and directed, Three Men on Fire (1986).

In Hong Kong, Harrison starred in what was supposed to be a small number of low-budget martial arts "ninja" films directed by Chinese filmmaker Godfrey Ho, with whom he was already familiar from working for the Shaw Brothers in the 1970s.

In 1991, Harrison played Jack Roth in the drama film Lies of the Twins opposite Aidan Quinn, Isabella Rossellini, and Iman.

Some of the more noteworthy movies in Harrison's later career were the Moroccan film Amok (1982) and Dark Mission (1987), by controversial Spanish director Jesús Franco.