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{{Short description|Australian entertainer (1930–2023)}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Rolf Harris
| image              = Rolf Harris.jpg
| image_size         = 
| caption            = Harris in 2010
| birth_name         = <!-- only use if different from name -->
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|df=yes|1930|03|30}}
| birth_place        = [[Bassendean, Western Australia]]
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=yes|2023|05|10|1930|3|30}}
| death_place        = [[Bray, Berkshire]], England
| death_cause        = <!-- should only be included when the cause of death has significance for the subject's notability -->
| alma_mater         = {{Plainlist|
* [[University of Western Australia]]
* [[Claremont Teachers' College]]
}}
| years_active       = 1953–2014
| occupation         = {{flatlist|
*Entertainer
*musician
*composer
*television personality
*painter
*actor
*presenter
}}
| spouse             = {{marriage|Alwen Hughes|1958}}
| children           = 1
| relatives          = [[George Frederick Harris (painter)|George Frederick Harris]] (grandfather)
| criminal_charges   = [[Indecent assault]]
| criminal_penalty   = 5 years, 9 months' [[imprisonment]]
| criminal_status    = [[Released on licence]] in 2017
}}
'''Rolf Harris''' (30 March 1930 – 10 May 2023) was an Australian musician, television personality, painter, and actor.<ref>{{cite web |last=Stephenson |first=Alison |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/rolf-harris-presented-with-officer-of-the-order-of-australia-medal/story-e6frfmqi-1226512714861#ixzz2OCouDaz4 |title=Rolf Harris presented with Officer of the Order of Australia medal |publisher=News.com.au |date=8 November 2012 |access-date=19 April 2013 |archive-date=5 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705032959/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/rolf-harris-presented-with-officer-of-the-order-of-australia-medal/story-e6frfmqi-1226512714861#ixzz2OCouDaz4 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He used a variety of instruments in his performances, notably the [[didgeridoo]] and the [[Stylophone]], and is credited with the invention of the [[wobble board]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Stylophone |date=12 January 2013 |title=Stylophone Sales Center |url=http://www.stylophone.com |access-date=19 April 2013 |publisher=Stylophone.com}}</ref> He was convicted in England in 2014 of the [[sexual assault#England and Wales|sexual assault]] of four underage girls, which effectively ended his career.<ref>{{cite news|last=Walker|first=Peter|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/30/rolf-harris-trial-entertainer-career|title=Rolf Harris trial shattered image of avuncular entertainer|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=30 June 2014|access-date=10 July 2015}}</ref>

Harris began his entertainment career in 1953, releasing several songs, including "[[Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport]]" (a Top 10 hit in Australia, the UK and the United States), "[[Sun Arise]]", "[[Jake the Peg]]" and "[[Two Little Boys]]", which reached number 1 in the UK. From the 1960s, Harris was a successful television personality in the UK, later presenting shows such as ''[[Rolf's Cartoon Club]]'' and ''[[Animal Hospital]]''. In 1985, he hosted the short educational film ''[[Kids Can Say No!]]'', which warned children between ages five and eight how to avoid situations where they might be [[Sexual abuse|sexually abused]], how to escape such situations and how to get help if they are abused. In 2005, he painted [[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – An 80th Birthday Portrait|an official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2005/12/20/rolf_harris_feature.shtml|title=A majestic painting|work=[[BBC News]] |date=20 December 2005|access-date=4 April 2013}}</ref>

After the [[Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal]], Harris was arrested as part of the [[Operation Yewtree]] police investigation regarding historical allegations of [[Sexual offences in the United Kingdom|sexual offences]] in 2013.<ref name="BBC-2013" /> Harris denied any wrongdoing and was placed on trial in 2014. In July 2014, Harris was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison after being convicted on twelve counts of [[indecent assault]] on four female victims, who were between the ages of eight and nineteen at the time that the offences took place between the 1960s and 1980s. Following his conviction, he was stripped of many of his honours and re-runs of his television programmes were pulled from syndication.<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/perth-rolf-harris-monument-to-get-the-chop/story-e6frfku9-1226973451185 Harris stripped of honours as purge begins] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814142825/http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/perth-rolf-harris-monument-to-get-the-chop/story-e6frfku9-1226973451185 |date=14 August 2015 }} at [[news.com.au]], 1 July 2014; retrieved 21 July 2014</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/rolf-harris-stripped-of-australian-honours-by-governorgeneral-20150223-13m1r7.html|title=Rolf Harris stripped of Australian honours by Governor-General|work=Sydney Morning Herald|date=23 February 2015|access-date=24 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="BBC-2015" >{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31711252|title=Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris stripped of CBE|work=BBC|date=3 March 2015|access-date=3 March 2015}}</ref> 

Harris was [[released on licence]] in 2017 after serving nearly three years at [[HM Prison Stafford]]. The conviction involving an eight-year-old girl in Portsmouth was overturned as [[Unsafe verdict|unsafe]] in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|date=16 November 2017|title=Harris indecent assault verdict overturned |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42012064|access-date=18 August 2020}}</ref> He applied for permission to appeal against his convictions concerning the three other girls, but this was refused.<ref>{{Cite news|agency=Press Association|date=16 November 2017|title=Rolf Harris has one indecent assault conviction overturned|language=en-GB|work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/16/rolf-harris-has-one-indecent-assault-conviction-overturned|access-date=18 August 2020|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

==Early life==
[[File:Rolf Harris (27 January 1945).jpeg|thumb|upright|right|At 14, he swam the fastest time, swimming from scratch, in the "Swim through Bassendean" handicap race, 27 January 1945.<ref>On Saturday, 27 January 1945, Harris swam in the main race of the day at a swimming competition held to raise funds for the Bassendean Child Development Centre. He came a close second in the featured handicap race, the "Swim through Bassendean". Swimming from scratch, he swam the fastest time ([http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44995399 Swimming Picnic], ''The West Australian'', (Monday, 29 January 1945), p.2.)</ref>]]
Harris was born on 30 March 1930 in [[Bassendean, Western Australia|Bassendean]], a suburb of [[Perth]], Western Australia,<ref name="State Library of WA-2011">{{cite web|url=http://m.slwa.wa.gov.au/media/rolf_harris|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419053123/http://m.slwa.wa.gov.au/media/rolf_harris|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 April 2013|title=Rolf Harris|publisher=State Library of Western Australia|date=25 October 2011|access-date=10 May 2015}}</ref> to Agnes Margaret (née Robbins) and Cromwell ("Crom") Harris, who had both emigrated from [[Cardiff]], Wales. He grew up in [[Wembley, Western Australia|Wembley]], Perth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31070739 |title=Birth Notice, ''The West Australian'', (Monday, 31 March 1930), p.1 |newspaper=West Australian |date=31 March 1930 |publisher=Trove.nla.gov.au |access-date=25 May 2012}}</ref> He was named after [[Thomas Alexander Browne|Rolf Boldrewood]], the pseudonym of an Australian writer whom his mother admired.<ref name="State Library of WA-2011"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Longridge|first1=Chris|title=How Rolf Harris became famous|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10919491/How-Rolf-Harris-became-famous.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10919491/How-Rolf-Harris-became-famous.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date= 30 June 2014|access-date=2 August 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> After his later fame, Harris was often referred to within Australia as "the boy from Bassendean".<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/people/Transcripts/s1072655.htm|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=23 March 2004 |title=George Negus Tonight – People, Episode 26 "Rolf Harris"|access-date=9 June 2012}}</ref> As a child he owned a dog called Buster Fleabags, about whom he later wrote a book (for the UK [[Quick Reads Initiative]]).<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.quickreads.org.uk/content/buster-fleabags |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317062331/http://www.quickreads.org.uk/content/buster-fleabags |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 March 2011 |publisher=Quick Reads |title=Buster Fleabags by Rolf Harris |access-date=29 January 2012}}</ref>

Harris attended Bassendean State School and [[Perth Modern School]] in [[Subiaco, Western Australia|Subiaco]], later gaining a Bachelor of Arts from the [[University of Western Australia]] and a Diploma of Education from [[Claremont Teachers' College]] (now [[Edith Cowan University]]).<ref>Hill, Amelia. (1 January 2006). "[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/jan/01/art.australia Wizard of Oz]". ''[[The Observer]]''; retrieved 19 April 2013.</ref><ref>Phillips, Yasmine. (11 September 2011). [http://www.perthnow.com.au/rolf-harris-reveals-the-secret-to-his-success/story-fn6mh6b5-1226134204818 "Rolf Harris reveals the secret to his success"], perthnow.com; retrieved 19 April 2013.</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2023}} When he was 16, and still a student at Perth Modern School, his self-portrait in oils was one of the 80 works (out of 200 submitted) accepted to be hung in the [[Art Gallery of New South Wales]] as an entry in the 1947 [[Archibald Prize]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59471255|title=26 January 1947: AT HOME IN WATER & OILS|work=nla.gov.au|date=26 January 1947 |access-date=21 February 2015}}</ref> He painted a portrait of the then [[Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia]], Sir [[James Mitchell (Australian politician)|James Mitchell]], for the 1948 Archibald Prize.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49569681|title=Youth Paints Picture of West Aus. Knight|newspaper=[[The Barrier Miner]]|location=Broken Hill, NSW|date=8 September 1947|access-date=5 November 2012|page=5|publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He won the 1949 [[Claude Hotchin]] prize for oil colours with his landscape "On a May Morning, [[Guildford, Western Australia|Guildford]]".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47687462|title=Awards to Artists|newspaper=[[The West Australian]]|location=Perth|date=3 December 1949 |access-date=20 January 2013|page=16|publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

As an adolescent and young adult Harris was a champion swimmer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44997120|date=10 February 1945|title=SWIM THROUGH PERTH. REVIVAL TOMORROW. Handicaps ...|work=nla.gov.au|access-date=21 February 2015}}</ref> In 1946, he was the Australian Junior {{convert|110|yd|m|abbr=off}} Backstroke Champion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50323781|title=04 Feb 1946 – JUNIOR BACKSTROKE CHAMPION.|work=nla.gov.au|date=4 February 1946 |access-date=21 February 2015}}</ref> He was also the Western Australian state champion over a variety of distances and strokes during the period from 1948 to 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26657126|date=9 December 1949|title=Swim Stars Get 'Tuned Up'|work=nla.gov.au|access-date=21 February 2015}}</ref>

==Career in television, music, and art==
===1950s===
Harris moved to England in 1952<ref name="BBC-2013"/> and became an art student at [[City and Guilds of London Art School]] in South London, aged 22. In 1953 he found work in television, at the [[BBC]], performing a regular ten-minute cartoon drawing section in a one-hour children's show called ''Jigsaw'', with a puppet called "Fuzz", made and operated on the show by magician [[Robert Harbin]]. He went on to illustrate ''Paper Magic'', Harbin's first book on origami, in 1956. In 1954, Harris was a regular on [[BBC Television]] programme ''Whirligig'', which featured a character called "Willoughby", who sprang to life on a drawing board, but was erased at the end of each episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/whirligig/whirligig.htm |title=Whirligig nostalgia web-site |publisher=Whirligig-tv.co.uk |access-date=17 January 2011}}</ref>

By this stage, Harris had drifted away from art school as a slightly disillusioned student. He then met his longtime hero, Australian impressionist painter [[Hayward Veal]] (1913–1968), who became his mentor, teaching him the rudiments of impressionism and showing him how it could help with his portrait painting.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5087294.stm |title=Entertainment &#124; Rolf Harris: People's painter |work=[[BBC News]] |date=16 June 2006 |access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref> At the time that he was working with Veal, Harris was also entertaining with his [[piano accordion]] every Thursday night at a club called the Down Under, frequented by Australians and New Zealanders. At the Down Under venue Harris honed his entertainment skills over several years, eventually writing what later became his theme song, "[[Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport]]".<ref>[http://www.markdapin.com.au/features/rolfharris.html Rolf Harris: Portrait of an artist as an older man] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717072258/http://www.markdapin.com.au/features/rolfharris.html |date=17 July 2014 }}, Mark Dapin, 21 July 2006. Retrieved 27 June 2014.</ref>

Although Harris chiefly appeared on the BBC, he was also on the British [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] network, and when commercial television started in 1955, he was the only entertainer to work with both the BBC and [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]]. He performed on the BBC with his own creation, Willoughby, a specially made board on which he drew Willoughby (voiced and operated by [[Peter Hawkins]]). The character would then come to life to engage in a comedic dialogue with Harris as he drew cartoons of Willoughby's antics.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8594443.stm |title=Valued exposure: Willoughby |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref> On [[Associated Rediffusion]]'s ''Small Time'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rolfharrisentertainer.com/television.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409195222/http://www.rolfharrisentertainer.com/television.html |url-status=dead |archive-date= 9 April 2011 |title=Rolf Harris web-site |publisher=Rolfharrisentertainer.com |access-date=25 May 2012}}</ref> Harris invented a character called Oliver Polip the Octopus, which he drew on the back of his hand and animated. Harris then illustrated the character's adventures with cartoons on huge sheets of card.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tntdownunder.com/entertainment/celebrities/interview-rolf-harris-still-going-strong|title=Interview: Rolf Harris – Can you tell what it is yet?|work=TNT Down Under|date=26 May 2012|access-date=19 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522071547/http://www.tntdownunder.com/entertainment/celebrities/interview-rolf-harris-still-going-strong|archive-date=22 May 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Harris returned to [[Perth]] in Australia when television was introduced there in 1959 after he was [[Executive search|headhunted]]. He subsequently produced and starred in five episodes of a half-hour weekly children's show, as well as his own weekly evening variety show.<ref name="BBC-2">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-22216075|title=Rolf Harris: Profile|work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=19 February 2017}}</ref> From 1959, he worked on [[TVW-7]]'s first locally produced show, ''Spotlight'', and during this time he recorded "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" on a single microphone placed above him in the television studio.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Brown|first1=Sarah|last2=Balnaves|first2=Mark|date=20 January 2011|title=Rolf Harris Transcript 2011|url=https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b4177921_2.pdf|access-date=26 May 2021|publisher=State Library of Western Australia}}</ref>

The song was sent to [[EMI]] in Sydney, and was released shortly afterwards as a record, becoming both his first recording and his first number one single. The song was successful in the UK. Harris offered four local backing musicians to split 10% of the royalties from the song, but they decided to take a recording fee of £7 each ({{Inflation|AU|7|1960|r=0|fmt=eq|cursign=[[A$]]}}), because they did not think the song would be successful.<ref>Did you know&nbsp;... page 18 "''Westside News''", 20 February 2008&nbsp;– Brisbane, Queensland, Australia</ref> The novelty song was originally titled "Kangalypso"<ref>{{cite web|title=Where Did They Get That Song?|url=http://www.poparchives.com.au/1164/rolf-harris/kangalypso|website=Pop Archives|access-date=7 June 2014|year=2014}}</ref> and featured the distinctive sound of the "[[wobble board]]".<ref name="State Library of WA-2011" />

The fourth verse – "[[Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport#Deleted verse|Let me abos go loose, Lou/Let me abos go loose/They're of no further use, Lou/So let me abos go loose]]" – became increasingly controversial, because of the use of what later became regarded as a [[List of ethnic slurs|racial slur]], and was removed in later versions of the song. In 2006, four decades after the song's release, Harris expressed his regret about the original lyric.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/rolf-sorry-he-let-racist-lyrics-loose/2006/12/05/1165080950179.html|title=Rolf's lyrics 'a sign of the times'|author=Renee Switzer|work=[[The Age]]|date=6 December 2006|access-date=3 December 2007}}</ref>

===1960s to 1980s===
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At the end of 1960, he toured Australia sponsored by [[Dulux]] paints and singing his hit song whilst doing huge paintings on stage with Dulux emulsion paint. While painting on stage, one of his catchphrases was, "Can you tell what it is yet?"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rolfharrisentertainer.com/faq.htm#5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828083116/http://www.rolfharrisentertainer.com/faq.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 August 2010 |title=Rolf Harris profile |publisher=Rolfharrisentertainer.com |date=30 March 1930 |access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref> After Harris and his wife returned to England, they visited Perth to meet family and for tours of Australia, where he spent around four months travelling with his band.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1438410.htm|title=ENOUGH ROPE with Andrew Denton – episode 90: Rolf Harris|date=15 August 2005|publisher=Abc.net.au|access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref>

After returning to the UK in 1962, he was introduced to [[George Martin]], who re-recorded all of his songs the following year, including a remake of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" which became a huge hit in the US, and "[[Sun Arise]]", an Aboriginal-inspired song Harris had written with Perth naturalist [[Harry Butler]]. The song reached number two in the UK charts. Harris met and worked with [[the Beatles]] after they started recording with Martin, and he [[wikt:compère|compèred]] their 16-night season of Christmas shows at London's [[Rainbow Theatre|Finsbury Park Astoria Theatre]] (later the Rainbow Theatre) in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/12/24/the-beatles-christmas-show|title=24 December 1963: The Beatles' Christmas Show begins|publisher=The Beatles Bible|date=24 December 1963|access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref> Harris sang "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport", with the Beatles singing backing vocals, for the first edition of the ''From Us to You'' BBC radio show in December 1963. Harris changed the original lyrics to create a version that was specially written for the Beatles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/07/12/rolf-harris-the-5th-beatle|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717023506/http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/07/12/rolf-harris-the-5th-beatle|archive-date=17 July 2011|title=Rolf Harris, the 5th Beatle|publisher=Gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com|date=27 October 2010|access-date=17 January 2011}}</ref>

Harris was the presenter of ''Hi There'' and ''Hey Presto it's Rolf'' in 1964.<ref name="BBC">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/rolf-harris/ |title=Rolf Harris |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 August 2014}}</ref> By the time ''The Rolf Harris Show'' was broadcast in 1967, lasting until 1974, on [[BBC1]], he had gained a high profile on British television.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dugan|first=Emily|title=Rolf Harris: He isn't just for Christmas, he's for life|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/rolf-harris-he-isnt-just-for-christmas-hes-for-life-2164317.html|work=[[The Independent]]|date=19 December 2010|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris in the Midlands|url=https://www.itv.com/news/central/2012-10-11/fact-file-the-life-of-rolf-harris/|publisher=ITV News|date=11 October 2012|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref> He was the commentator for the [[United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest|United Kingdom]] in the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1967|1967 Eurovision Song Contest]].<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC One – Eurovision Song Contest – Grand Final: 1967|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007vgk0|publisher=BBC|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref>

In March 1967, [[David Blanasi]], an [[Aboriginal Australian]] virtuoso player and maker of the [[didgeridoo]], travelled to London with Harris, appearing live on ''The Rolf Harris Show'' on Saturday 1 April for the first time.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107034135 |title=NT Aborigine for London TV |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=41 |issue=11,649 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=29 March 1967 |accessdate=18 March 2025 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> Blanasi taught Harris how to play the didgeridoo while on tour with him, which began an ongoing professional association.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://ia800103.us.archive.org/11/items/oapen-20.500.12657-58838/9781501362958.pdf|first= Amanda| last= Harris| date= 2020| title= Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930–1970 |page=118,121| publisher=Bloomsbury}} </ref>

Harris created one of his best known characters in the 1960s, [[Jake the Peg]], but his biggest success in terms of record sales was in 1969, with his rendering of the American Civil War song "[[Two Little Boys]]", originally written in 1902. Harris later discovered a personal poignancy to the song, as the story bears such a resemblance to the [[World War I]] experiences of his father Crom, and Crom's beloved younger brother Carl, who died aged 19 after being wounded in battle in France two weeks before the [[Armistice of 11 November 1918|Armistice]] of November 1918.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4969451.ece|first=Richard|last=Brooks|title=Rolf Harris unearths own family's tale of 'two little boys' in Somme cemetery|work=The Sunday Times |date=19 October 2008|access-date=4 February 2010}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> "Two Little Boys" was the [[List of Christmas number one singles (UK)|Christmas Number One song]] in the UK charts for six weeks in 1969. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a [[music recording sales certification|gold disc]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Joseph|last=Murrells|year=1978|title=The Book of Golden Discs|edition=2nd|publisher=Barrie and Jenkins Ltd|location=London, UK|page=[https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/260 260]|isbn=0-214-20512-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/260}}</ref>

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, his BBC TV programmes remained a light-entertainment staple, with the last show, ''Rolf on Saturday OK?'', broadcast on Saturday evenings.<ref name="BBC-2"/> On many of his television appearances, Harris painted pictures on large boards in an apparently slapdash manner, with the odd nonsense song thrown in, asking "Can you tell what is it yet?" as he painted. Only at the end of the song would a fully formed picture emerge, sometimes only after the board was turned through 90 or 180 degrees. Such appearances led to several television series based on his artistic ability, such as ''[[Rolf's Cartoon Time]]'', broadcast on BBC One from 1979 to 1989, and ''[[Rolf's Cartoon Club]]'', on [[CITV]] between 1989 and 1993.<ref name="BBC-2" /> 

In the early 1980s, he starred in his own weekly Australian television series, ''The Rolf Harris Show'', produced by the [[ABC Television (Australian TV network)|ABC Television]]. The series featured numerous guests, including regulars such as [[Jane Scali]]. During the show Harris would also paint Australian bush scenes.{{cn|date=March 2025}}

Harris was the subject of episodes of ''[[This Is Your Life (UK TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1971 and 1995.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sommerlad |first1=Joe |title=Rolf Harris death: The disgraced entertainer's rise and fall |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/rolf-harris-dead-career-timeline-prison-b2344248.html |access-date=26 May 2023 |work=The Independent |date=23 May 2023}}</ref> In 1973, Harris performed the first concert in the Concert Hall of the newly completed [[Sydney Opera House]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22216075|title=BBC News – Profile: Rolf Harris – musician, artist and presenter|work=[[BBC News]] |date=19 April 2013 |access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref> In 1974, he released the single "Papillon" on EMI.<ref>{{cite web |title=Papillon |url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-1093287?rCH=2 |publisher=Offizielle Deutsche Charts |access-date=26 May 2023 |language=German}}</ref> He played the didgeridoo on two albums by English pop singer [[Kate Bush]], entitled ''[[The Dreaming (album)|The Dreaming]]'' (1982) and ''[[Aerial (album)|Aerial]]'' (2005); he also contributed vocals to the songs "An Architect's Dream" and "The Painter's Link" on ''Aerial''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pop CD of the week: Kate Bush, Aerial|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/oct/30/popandrock.shopping1|access-date=29 October 2005|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=18 February 2017}}</ref>

In 1985, Harris presented a twenty-minute child abuse prevention video called ''[[Kids Can Say No!]]''<ref>{{OCLC|221022364}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris in 'no to child abuse' video|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/rolf-harris-in-no-to-child-abuse-video/story-fni0fee2-1226810860369|access-date=29 January 2014|newspaper=[[Herald Sun]]|date=26 January 2014}}</ref>

===Later career===
In the late 1980s, Harris was touring in Australia and was asked to sing his own version of [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "[[Stairway to Heaven]]" for the television programme ''[[The Money or the Gun]]'' performing with his own small group; a version was released as a single in the UK in February 1993. This cover version reached number seven in the charts, which led to his appearance at the [[Glastonbury Festival]] in 1993. Harris appeared at six subsequent Glastonbury festivals—1998, 2000, 2002, 2009, 2010 and 2013—and a wobble board Harris used to perform "Stairway to Heaven" on ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' is an exhibit at the [[National Museum of Australia]]. In 2000, Harris, along with Steve Lima, released a dance track called "Fine Day", which entered the "top 30" in the UK charts at that time. A "[[Kilmarnock F.C.|Killie-themed]]" version of the song was scheduled for release in March 2007, to coincide with the Scottish football club Kilmarnock's appearance in the [[Scottish League Cup]] final after the song was adopted by the club's fans in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fineday.co.uk|title=Fine Day|access-date=17 January 2011}}</ref> One of the adapted lyrics referred to a hypothetical situation, in which Kilmarnock could be losing the match 5–0, and the club coincidentally lost 5–1. Harris performed "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" in 2000 with the Australian children's group [[the Wiggles]]; he was subsequently digitally removed from DVD releases after his conviction.<ref>{{cite web|title= Rolf Harris stripped of his ARIA Hall of Fame induction|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/rolf-harris-stripped-of-his-aria-hall-of-fame-induction-20140701-zss4t.html/|work=Sydney Morning Herald|last=Cooper|first=Mex|date=1 June 2014|access-date=15 February 2017}}</ref>

From 1994 to 2003, Harris was the host of the reality television programme ''[[Animal Hospital]]'', a chronicle of a British [[veterinary medicine|veterinary practice]]. During his time hosting the series, he adopted an abandoned [[English Bull Terrier]] from the practice named "Dolly".<ref>{{cite web|title=Can you tell what it is yet? 10 reasons to love Rolf Harris|url=http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2013/02/01/can-you-tell-what-it-is-yet-10-reasons-to-love-rolf-harris/|work=Time Out London|access-date=7 June 2014|author=Oliver Keens|date=1 February 2013}}</ref> Harris presented 19 series of ''Animal Hospital'' for BBC One and the show won the ''Most Popular Factual Entertainment Show'' award at the [[National TV Awards]] on five occasions.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Julie Miller|title=Rolf's Animal Clinic|url=http://about.channel5.com/node/1701|website=Channel 5|publisher=Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd|access-date=7 June 2014|date=13 September 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714195011/http://about.channel5.com/node/1701|archive-date=14 July 2014}}</ref> Harris eventually announced that it was "time to move on" at the completion of the series, which broke "the hearts of thousands of fans across the country", according to the ''[[Radio Times]]''.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Ellie Walker-Arnott|title=Rolf Harris to present new animal show on Channel 5|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-09-13/rolf-harris-to-present-new-animal-show-on-channel-5|website=Radio Times|access-date=7 June 2014|date=13 September 2012}}</ref>

In 2001 and 2004, Harris presented ''[[Rolf on Art]]'', a television series that highlighted the work of a selection of his favourite artists, including [[Vincent van Gogh|van Gogh]], [[Edgar Degas|Degas]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]] and [[Paul Gauguin|Gauguin]]. In November and December 2002, under the direction of [[Charles Saumarez Smith]], London's [[National Gallery]] exhibited a collection of Harris's art.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2348843.stm|title=National to display Rolf's art|work=[[BBC News]] |date=22 October 2002|access-date=3 December 2007}}</ref>

On 26 September 2004, Harris oversaw a project to recreate [[John Constable]]'s ''[[The Hay Wain]]'' painting on a large scale, with 150 people each contributing a small section. On live BBC television, each individual canvas was assembled into the full picture as part of the episode ''Rolf on Art: The Big Event''. Also in 2004, as a part of the ''Rolf on Art'' series, Harris travelled to [[Lapland (Finland)|Lapland]] to design and paint a Christmas card for the "Children in Need" charity organisation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rolf on Art|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dwc63|website=BBC One|access-date=7 June 2014|date=12 December 2004}}</ref>

Harris presented three series of the BBC art programme ''[[Star Portraits with Rolf Harris]]'', with the first and second series airing in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Following the first series, a touring exhibition—featuring portraits of [[Cilla Black]], [[Michael Parkinson]] and [[Adrian Edmondson]]—was organised with County Hall Gallery.<ref>{{cite web|title=Touring Exhibition of Star Portraits with Rolf Harris|url=http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=13889&int_modo=2#.U5O88hb5lg0|website=ArtDaily|access-date=8 June 2014|year=2004}}</ref> In 2001, Harris had said he always imagined he would eventually become a portrait painter as his grandfather, [[George Frederick Harris (painter)|George Frederick Harris]], had been.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4100718.stm|title=Sale of Rolf's grandfather's art |work=[[BBC News]] |date=17 June 2005|access-date=26 April 2015}}</ref>

Harris was commissioned to [[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – An 80th Birthday Portrait|paint a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II for her 80th birthday]]. The painting was conducted at [[Buckingham Palace]] and was unveiled there by Harris on 19 December 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/12_december/19/portrait.shtml|title=Rolf Harris and BBC unveil new official portrait of The Queen|publisher=BBC press office|date=19 December 2005|access-date=3 December 2007}}</ref> The painting also became the subject of a special episode of ''Rolf on Art''. Harris explained to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' the following year: "I was as nervous as anything. I was in a panic". The portrait was later voted as the second most-favoured portrait of the Queen by the British public.<ref name="Lom-2008">{{cite news|author1=Alec Lom|title=Rolf Harris tells how he nearly lost his nerve during Queen portrait|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3140817/Rolf-Harris-tells-how-he-nearly-lost-his-nerve-during-Queen-portrait.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3140817/Rolf-Harris-tells-how-he-nearly-lost-his-nerve-during-Queen-portrait.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=7 June 2014|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=5 October 2008}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In September 2006, the [[Royal Australian Mint]] launched the first of the new 2007 Silver Kangaroo Collector's Coin series and Harris was commissioned to design the first coin of the series.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris designs new-look $1 coin|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-09-05/rolf-harris-designs-new-look-1-coin/1256114|access-date=9 April 2016|publisher=ABC News|date=5 September 2006}}</ref> In January 2007, a one-hour documentary titled ''A Lifetime in Paint'', about Harris's work as an artist—from his early years in Australia to the present day—was screened on BBC One.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rolf Harris: A Lifetime in Paint|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007cjy8|website=BBC One|access-date=8 June 2014|date=14 January 2007}}</ref>
[[File:Rolf Harris drawing a self-portrait.jpg|right|thumb|Harris sketches a "Rolfaroo" self-portrait in 2008]]
In 2007, Harris participated in the [[BBC Wales]] programme ''[[Coming Home (UK TV series)|Coming Home]]'', in which he discussed his Welsh family history.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007d2yw |title=BBC One – Coming Home, Series 2, Rolf Harris |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=9 February 2011 |access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref> In December 2007 a new DVD, titled ''Rolf Live!'', was released through his website,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rolfharrisentertainer.com/shop.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218203630/http://www.rolfharrisentertainer.com/shop.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 February 2011 |title=Rolf Harris |publisher=Rolfharrisentertainer.com |access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref> while ''Rolf on Art: Beatrix Potter'' was screened on BBC One during the same month.<ref>{{cite web|title=Beatrix Potter|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008l1v9|website=BBC One|access-date=7 June 2014|date=30 December 2007}}</ref> Harris appeared with a wobble board in a [[Churchill Insurance]] advertisement in 2009,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA8122|title=Churchill 'Rolf Harris' TV ad – 30 sec advert|publisher=Tellyads.com|date=26 September 2007|access-date=4 February 2010|archive-date=23 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823042028/http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA8122|url-status=dead}}</ref> and hosted the satirical quiz show ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' in May 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/04_april/23/rolf.shtml|title=Press Office – Rolf Harris to host Have I Got News For You|publisher=BBC|access-date=4 February 2010}}</ref>
Harris was narrator of the 2010 Australian documentary series ''[[Penguin Island (TV series)|Penguin Island]]'', a six-part natural history documentary about the life of the [[little penguin]].<ref>{{cite web|title=ABOUT THE SERIES|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/penguinisland/series/rolf.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714174233/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/penguinisland/series/rolf.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 July 2014|website=ABC|access-date=7 June 2014|year=2014}}</ref> From September 2010 to October 2010, he took part in ''Jamie's Dream School'', teaching art to a class of 20 students,<ref>{{cite web|title=Jamie's Dream School {{!}} Rolf Harris on Impressionism|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xBWed2Bd88|website=Jamie's Dream School on YouTube|publisher=Google Inc|access-date=7 June 2014|type=Video upload|date=2 March 2011}}</ref> followed by an appearance as himself on the Christmas special of ''[[My Family]]'', which aired on 24 December 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=My Family Christmas Success|url=http://www.myfamilyontv.com/news|website=My Family|publisher=DLT Entertainment|access-date=7 June 2014|year=2000–2010|archive-date=19 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219221804/http://myfamilyontv.com/news|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Harris performed on the Pyramid Stage at the [[Glastonbury Festival]] on 25 June 2010, during the festival's 40th birthday, followed by an appearance at the [[Bestival]] Festival on the Isle of Wight in September 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/pyramid-stage-openers-announced|title=Pyramid Stage openers announced|date=11 May 2010|publisher=Glastonbury Festival|access-date=11 May 2010}}</ref> On 5 August 2011, Harris played at Wickham Festival in [[Wickham, Hampshire]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/story.asp?nid=5538|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714185205/http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/story.asp?nid=5538|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 July 2014|title=Jools Holland & Rolf Harris at Wickham Festival|publisher=SpiralEarth|access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref> and also appeared on the Wiggles' 2011 DVD release ''Ukulele Baby'', singing and performing the song "Good Ship Fabulous Flea" with his wobble board. In 2011 Harris made a guest appearance on BBC One's ''[[The Magicians (UK TV series)|The Magicians]]'', hosted by [[Lenny Henry]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Allie and Rolf Harris!|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAm-7ARy3Ks|website=Allie Ho Chee on YouTube|publisher=youtube.com|access-date=7 June 2014|format=video upload|date=21 February 2011}}</ref> On 5 November 2011, Harris appeared in an episode of ''[[Piers Morgan's Life Stories]]'', in which he wept as he spoke about a period in which he felt his "life was over": "I didn't know what to do with myself. I didn't know what to think. I now know what people mean when they say, 'I've got clinical depression.' I'd never felt so low. There's no way to come out of the blackness. I felt out of control". Harris also stated that he regrets missing so much of his daughter's childhood.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/rolf-harris-breaks-down-on-tv-20111010-1lh2t.html|title=Rolf Harris breaks down on TV|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref>

In December 2011, Harris's portrait of [[Bonnie Tyler]] was valued at an estimated £50,000 on BBC's ''[[The Antiques Roadshow]]''.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8933154/Bonnie-Tyler-by-Rolf-Harris-a-50000-painting-is-found.html Bonnie Tyler by Rolf Harris – a £50,000 painting is found], The Telegraph newspaper, 3 December 2011</ref> From 19 May to 12 August 2012, a major retrospective of Harris's paintings, titled "Rolf Harris: Can You Tell What It Is Yet?", was exhibited at the [[Walker Art Gallery]] in Liverpool.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris Walker Art Gallery exhibition a 'thrill'|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-18117067|access-date=8 June 2014|work=[[BBC News]] |date=18 May 2012}}</ref> The opening day yielded the busiest Saturday on record, with visitor figures peaking at 3,632.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-culture/liverpool-arts/2012/05/24/rolf-harris-gives-walker-art-gallery-its-busiest-saturday-on-record-99623-31033317/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525171052/http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-culture/liverpool-arts/2012/05/24/rolf-harris-gives-walker-art-gallery-its-busiest-saturday-on-record-99623-31033317/|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 May 2013|title=Rolf Harris gives Walker Art Gallery its busiest Saturday on record|work=[[Liverpool Daily Post]]|date=24 May 2012|access-date=24 May 2012}}</ref>

On 2 May 2012, Harris appeared on ''[[The One Show]]'', in which he described his artistic style as being "impressionistic".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/artists/Rolf-Harris/biography/page8.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714232700/http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/artists/Rolf-Harris/biography/page8.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 July 2014|title=Rolf Harris Biography – Page 8|publisher=Absolute Radio|access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref> On 4 June 2012, he performed at the Queen's [[Diamond Jubilee Concert]] outside [[Buckingham Palace]].<ref>{{cite news|author1=Jacquelin Magnay|title=Jubilee final straw for Rolf Harris accuser|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/jubilee-final-straw-for-rolf-harris-accuser/story-e6frg6so-1226915438244|access-date=7 June 2014|work=The Australian|date=13 May 2014}}</ref>

In October 2012, Harris started presenting a series on [[Channel 5 (UK)|Channel 5]], based at [[University of Liverpool School of Veterinary Science|Liverpool University's Veterinary School]], called ''Rolf's Animal Clinic''. At the time of his arrest by British police on suspicion of sexual offences, the show was broadcasting a repeat run and was consequently ceased without any details of its future. In 2013, Channel 5 replaced Harris with former BBC host [[Ben Fogle]] and recommissioned the show under the title 'Ben Fogle's Animal Clinic'.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris replaced on Animal Clinic|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23613496|access-date=9 August 2013|newspaper=BBC|date=8 August 2013}}</ref>

===Musical recordings and experimentation===
{{further|Rolf Harris discography}}
[[File:Rolf Harris playing the accordion.jpg|thumb|upright|Harris playing the [[accordion]] in 2008]]
Harris released 30 studio albums, two live albums and 48 singles.<ref>{{cite news|last=Edgar|first=James|title=Rolf Harris: A household name for 50 years|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/rolf-harris-a-household-name-for-50-years-8580035.html|work=The Independent|date=19 April 2013|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref> In 1960 his single "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" reached number 1 in Australia, and in 1969 "Two Little Boys" reached number 1 on both the Irish and UK charts.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hawke Bryant|first=Lyndall|title=Rolf Harris guilty: Verdict marks fall from grace for once-beloved Australian entertainer|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-01/rolf-harris-timeline-australian-entertainer-falls-from-grace/5518248|publisher=ABC News|date=4 July 2014|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref> His 1992 ''Rolf Rules OK?'' album was nominated for the [[ARIA Music Awards|ARIA Music Award]] for Best Comedy Release.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stickler|first=Jon|title=Rolf Harris Re-Arrested By Operation Yewtree Police Over New Sex Offence Allegations|url=https://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/180594/9|publisher=Stereoboard|date=5 August 2013|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref>

Harris is credited with inventing a simple homemade instrument called the wobble board.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Peter Walker|title=Rolf Harris tells court: I betrayed everybody|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/27/rolf-harris-relationship-with-daughters-friend?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2|access-date=7 June 2014|work=[[The Guardian]] |agency=Guardian News and Media Limited|date=27 May 2014}}</ref> As well as his [[beatboxing]], similar to [[eefing]], Harris went on to use an array of unusual instruments in his music, including the didgeridoo (the sound of which was imitated on "[[Sun Arise]]" by four double basses), the [[Jew's harp]] and later, the [[Stylophone]] (for which he also lent his name and likeness for advertising).<ref>{{cite web|last=McNamee|first=David|title= Hey, what's that sound: Stylophone |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jul/06/whats-that-sound-stylophone|work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=9 April 2016 |date=6 July 2009}}</ref>

His version of [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "[[Stairway to Heaven]]", featuring didgeridoo and wobble board, reached the UK top ten in 1993.<ref>{{cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 2006| title= British Hit Singles & Albums| edition= 19th| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London| isbn= 1-904994-10-5| page= 244}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=White|first=Jim|title= Led Zeppelin done with a didgeridoo: A surprised Rolf Harris talks... |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/led-zeppelin-done-with-a-didgeridoo-a-surprised-rolf-harris-talks-to-jim-white-about-his-hit-remake-1470601.html|work=The Independent|access-date=20 November 2017 |date=3 February 1993}}</ref> Harris also recorded a version of [[Queen (band)|Queen]]'s "[[Bohemian Rhapsody]]" and performed [[the Divinyls]]' "[[I Touch Myself]]", accompanied only by his wobble board, for "Denton's Musical Challenge" on [[Triple M Sydney]]'s ''[[Andrew Denton]] Breakfast Show''<ref>{{cite web|title=Triple M Archive: Rolf Harris Sings 'I Touch Myself'.|url=http://www.triplem.com.au/adelaide/shows/the-one-percenters/blog/triple-m-archive-rolf-harris-sings-i-touch-myself/|website=[[Triple M Sydney]]|access-date=8 June 2014|date=28 May 2014|archive-date=8 June 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140608014552/http://www.triplem.com.au/adelaide/shows/the-one-percenters/blog/triple-m-archive-rolf-harris-sings-i-touch-myself/|url-status=dead}}</ref> (the recording was released on the first Musical Challenge compilation album in 2000).<ref>{{cite web|title=Various – The Andrew Denton Breakfast Show Musical Challenge|url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Andrew-Denton-Breakfast-Show-Musical-Challenge/release/702841|website=Various on Discogs|publisher=Discogs|year=2014}}</ref> Harris also recorded an Australian Christmas song called "Six White Boomers", about a joey kangaroo trying to find his mother during the Christmas period. The song describes how Santa Claus used six large male [[kangaroo]]s ("boomers"), instead of [[reindeer]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Aussie News |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PSAEAAAAMBAJ |last=Collins |first=John T. |pages=9, 50|newspaper=Billboard |date=31 October 1960}}</ref> In October 2008 Harris announced he would re-record his popular 1969 song "Two Little Boys", backed by North Wales' [[Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir]], to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7669707.stm|title=Rolf remakes Two Little Boys hit|date=15 October 2008|publisher=BBC News: Wales|access-date=15 October 2008}}</ref> Proceeds from the release were donated to the [[Poppy Appeal]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rolf Harris to re-release Two Little Boys|url=http://metro.co.uk/2008/11/11/rolf-harris-to-re-release-two-little-boys-124002/|website=Metro|access-date=8 June 2014|date=11 November 2008}}</ref> Harris was inspired to make the recording after participating in ''My Family at War'', a short series of programmes that aired during the BBC's "Remembrance" season, broadcast in November 2008. He discovered that the experiences of his father and uncle during the Great War mirrored the lyrics of the song.<ref>{{cite web|last=Adams|first=Stephen|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/3416040/Rolf-Harris-re-records-Two-Little-Boys-to-mark-90th-anniversary-of-end-of-WWI.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/3416040/Rolf-Harris-re-records-Two-Little-Boys-to-mark-90th-anniversary-of-end-of-WWI.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Rolf Harris re-records Two Little Boys to mark 90th anniversary of end of WWI |work=Telegraph.co.uk |date=10 November 2008|access-date=17 January 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

=={{anchor|Operation Yewtree arrest}}Sexual offences==
In March 2013, Harris was one of twelve people arrested in England during [[Operation Yewtree]], for questioning regarding historical allegations of sexual offences.<ref name="BBC-2013">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22212131|title=Rolf Harris questioned in Yewtree sex offence probe|work=[[BBC News]]|date=19 April 2013|access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/latest_news/operation_yewtree_-_rolf_harris_charged_with_13_offences|title=Operation Yewtree: Rolf Harris charged with 13 offences|work=CPS.gov|date=29 August 2013|access-date=5 July 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707101651/http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/latest_news/operation_yewtree_-_rolf_harris_charged_with_13_offences/|archive-date=7 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="Halliday-2013">{{cite news|author=Halliday, Josh|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/29/rolf-harris-charged-operation-yewtree|title=Rolf Harris charged with 13 child sex offences|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=29 August 2013|access-date=30 August 2013}}</ref><ref name="BBC-2013a">{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris facing three further sexual assault charges|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25489501|access-date=23 December 2013|work=[[BBC News]]|date=23 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris arrested by police investigating sexual abuse allegations|url=http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/rolf-harris-arrested-by-police-investigating-sexual-abuse-allegations-29207695.html|access-date=19 April 2013|work=[[Irish Independent]]|date=19 April 2013}}</ref> The allegations were not linked to the sexual misconduct revelations surrounding [[Jimmy Savile]], who died in 2011, and Harris denied any wrongdoing.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/rolf-harris-on-underage-sex-assault-charges/story-e6frg6so-1226706975382|title=Rolf Harris on underage sex assault charges|work=[[The Australian]]|date=30 August 2013|access-date=30 August 2013}}</ref><ref name="News.com.au-2013">{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris denies sex offence claims|url=http://www.news.com.au/national-news/rolf-harris-named-by-uk-newspaper-in-sex-inquiry/story-fncynjr2-1226624466404|access-date=19 April 2013|newspaper=[[News.com.au]]|date=19 April 2013|archive-date=19 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419061336/http://www.news.com.au/national-news/rolf-harris-named-by-uk-newspaper-in-sex-inquiry/story-fncynjr2-1226624466404|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was bailed without charge, did not comment publicly on the allegations,<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris arrested by Operation Yewtree police|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/19/rolf-harris-arrested-operation-yewtree-police|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=19 April 2013}}</ref> and was understood to have denied them strongly.<ref name="News.com.au-2013"/> When returning to the stage in May 2013 for the first time since his arrest, he thanked the audience for their support.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris plays first live show since arrest|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22594336|access-date=21 May 2013|work=[[BBC News]]|date=20 May 2013}}</ref>

===Charges===
In August 2013, Harris was again arrested by Operation Yewtree officers and charged with nine counts of indecent assault dating to the 1980s, involving two girls between 14 and 16 years old, and four counts alleging production of indecent child images in 2012.<ref name="Halliday-2013"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris faces new allegations|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23581847|access-date=5 August 2013|work=BBC News Online|date=5 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23880768|title=Assault charges for Rolf Harris|publisher=BBC|date=29 August 2013|access-date=30 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0829/470994-rolf-harris-charged-with-13-sex-offences|title=Rolf Harris Charged With 13 Sex Offences|publisher=Rte.ie|date=19 February 2013|access-date=30 August 2013}}</ref> The [[Crown Prosecution Service]]'s [[Alison Saunders]] explained to the media:
<blockquote style=font-size:100%>Having completed our review, we have concluded there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest for Mr Harris to be charged&nbsp;... The decision has been taken in accordance with the code for crown prosecutors and the [[Director of Public Prosecutions]]'s interim guidelines on prosecuting cases of child sexual abuse. We have determined that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest.<ref name="Halliday-2013" /></blockquote>

Harris appeared at [[Westminster Magistrates' Court]] on 23 September 2013, charged with nine counts of indecent assault and four counts of making indecent images of children. His lawyer indicated that Harris would plead not guilty and he was subsequently bailed.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris to stand trial over assault charges in April|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24428587|access-date=7 October 2013|work=[[BBC News]] |date=7 October 2013}}</ref> In December 2013, the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that Harris was facing three further counts of sexual assault. The CPS said that the new charges were of alleged assault against females aged nineteen in 1984, aged seven or eight in 1968 or 1969, and aged fourteen in 1975.<ref name="BBC-2013a"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris facing three fresh sex assault charges|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-23/rolf-harris-facing-new-sex-assault-charges/5172432|access-date=23 December 2013|work=[[ABC News (Australia)]]|date=23 December 2013}}</ref> At a further hearing at [[Southwark Crown Court]] on 14 January 2014, Harris pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris pleads not guilty to a string of sexual assaults against four girls|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rolf-harris-pleads-not-guilty-to-a-string-of-sexual-assaults-against-four-girls-9059432.html|work=The Independent|date=15 January 2014}}</ref>

The four counts of making indecent images were related to the [[Protection of Children Act 1978]], which interprets viewing images on a computer as making images. The charges were brought after detectives examined Harris's computer and found 33 images of possibly underage models among thousands of adult pornographic images. Harris never entered a plea on the charges, as his lawyers argued successfully that the charges should be [[Motion (legal)|severed]] from the 12 sexual assault charges and tried separately. In the aftermath of Harris's conviction, it was reported that his legal team had obtained the identity documents of the models involved, confirming they were adults over 18.<ref name="Drape">{{Cite news| last = Drape| first = Julian| title = Harris won't be tried over 'teen' porn| work = GoldCoastBulletin| access-date = 7 July 2014| url = http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/breaking-news/harris-wont-be-tried-over-teen-porn/story-fnjbnxok-1226978539484| archive-date = 14 July 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140714193056/http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/breaking-news/harris-wont-be-tried-over-teen-porn/story-fnjbnxok-1226978539484| url-status = dead}}</ref> The websites Harris had visited, according to the [[Internet Watch Foundation]], are not known for illegal images of children. The prosecution informed the court that they would not be proceeding with the indecent images charges.<ref name="Drape"/>

===Trial===
The trial of Harris began on 6 May 2014 at Southwark Crown Court.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris trial set to start on May 6|url=http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/News/Areas/Bray-Holyport-Fifield/Rolf-Harris-trial-to-start-on-Tuesday-April-6-24042014.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425062059/http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/News/Areas/Bray-Holyport-Fifield/Rolf-Harris-trial-to-start-on-Tuesday-April-6-24042014.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 April 2014|access-date=25 April 2014|work=Maidenhead Advertiser|date=24 April 2014}}</ref> Seven of the twelve charges involved allegations of a sexual relationship between Harris and one of his daughter's friends. Six charges related to when she was between the ages of 13 and 15, and one when she was 19. Harris denied that he had entered into a sexual relationship with the girl until she was 18. During the trial, a letter Harris had written to the girl's father in 1997 after the end of the relationship was shown in court, saying: "I fondly imagined that everything that had taken place had progressed from a feeling of love and friendship—there was no rape, no physical forcing, brutality or beating that took place."<ref name="BBC-2014">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27907511|title=Rolf Harris: The charges against him|work=[[BBC News]] |date=30 June 2014|access-date=6 July 2014}}</ref>

Three charges related to the assault of a 15-year-old Australian girl visiting the UK in 1986.<ref name="BBC-2014"/> One charge was that he sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl who asked for his autograph at a community centre in Hampshire in 1968 or 1969. When questioned by police about this allegation, Harris replied "I would simply never touch a child inappropriately."<ref name="BBC-2014"/> Harris was also accused of groping the bottom of a 14-year-old girl at a celebrity ''[[It's a Knockout]]'' event in [[Cambridge]] in 1975.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/23/rolf-harris-trial-scene-alleged-assaults|title='No evidence' Rolf Harris was at scene of alleged assaults|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=23 May 2014|access-date=7 July 2014}}</ref> He denied that he had visited Cambridge until four years before the trial, but television archive material was produced in court showing that he had taken part in an episode of the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] show ''Star Games'', which had been filmed in Cambridge in 1978. Harris denied that he had told a deliberate lie and said that his failure to remember the show was "a lapse of memory."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/02/rolf-harris-trial-game-show-footage-defence-cambridge|title=Rolf Harris trial: gameshow footage emerges undermining defence|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=2 June 2014|access-date=7 July 2014}}</ref> Additional witnesses who claimed to have been assaulted in Malta, New Zealand, and Australia were called to testify against Harris, although these charges could not be pursued in the British courts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/world/rolf-harris-guilty-the-victims-of-the-12-counts-of-indecent-assault-20140701-zsrip.html|title=Rolf Harris guilty: The victims of the 12 counts of indecent assault|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=1 June 2014|access-date=7 July 2014}}</ref>

===Conviction and imprisonment===
After several delays in the trial, in which the judge's summarising took three days, the jury retired to consider its verdict on 19 June 2014. On 30 June, Harris was found guilty of all 12 counts of indecent assault.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-28/harris-jurors-ask-for-letters-to-be-sent-to-employers/5556982|title=Rolf Harris trial: Jurors ask for letters to be sent to employers as trial continues|publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|author=Miller, Barbara|date=28 June 2014|access-date=29 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/world/rolf-harris-jury-seeks-clarification-from-judge-20140627-zsno7.html|title=Rolf Harris jury seeks clarification from judge|work=[[The Age]]|date=27 June 2014|access-date=29 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=30 June 2014 |title=Rolf Harris guilty of indecent assault |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0630/627533-rolf-harris-verdict/ |newspaper=RTÉ News |access-date=30 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rolf-harris-guilty-12-indecent-assaults-135722126.html?vp=1#ScqBQ5R|title=Rolf Harris guilty of 12 indecent assaults|work=Sky News|date=30 June 2014}}</ref>

At Southwark Crown Court on 4 July 2014, [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|Mr Justice]] [[Nigel Sweeney|Sweeney]] sentenced Harris to a total of five years and nine months in prison.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/04/rolf-harris-jailed-indecent-assault-young-girls|title=Rolf Harris jailed for five years nine months for indecently assaulting girls|first=Peter|last=Walker|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 July 2014|access-date=4 July 2014}}</ref> When passing sentence, the judge said to Harris: "You have shown no remorse for your crimes at all. Your reputation now lies in ruins, you have been stripped of your honours but you have no one to blame but yourself."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sentencing-remarks-mr-j-sweeney-r-v-harris1.pdf|title=Sentencing remarks of Mr Justice Sweeney|website=Judiciary.gov|date=4 July 2014|access-date=18 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28140334|title=Rolf Harris has shown no remorse, judge says|work=[[BBC News]]|date=4 July 2014|access-date=4 July 2014}}</ref> Some sentences were expected to run consecutively, and Harris was expected to serve half of his sentence in prison. He was told to pay [[Criminal costs|prosecution costs]], though not compensation to the victims.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28163593|title=Rolf Harris jailed for five years and nine months|work=[[BBC News]]|date=4 July 2014|access-date=4 July 2014}}</ref> The sentence was referred to the [[Attorney General for England and Wales|Attorney General]] [[Dominic Grieve]] after complaints that it was too [[Criminal Justice Act 1988#Unduly lenient sentenceslenient|lenient]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Evans|first1=Martin|title=Rolf Harris latest: 'unduly lenient' sentence referred to Attorney General|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10944530/Rolf-Harris-jailed-for-five-years-and-nine-months.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10944530/Rolf-Harris-jailed-for-five-years-and-nine-months.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=4 July 2014|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=4 July 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On 30 July 2014, the new Attorney General, [[Jeremy Wright]], announced that he would not be referring the sentence to the [[Court of Appeal (England and Wales)|Court of Appeal]] for review "as he did not think they would find it to be unduly lenient and increase it. The sentencing judge was bound by the maximum sentence in force at the time of the offending."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bowcott|first1=Owen|title=Rolf Harris's prison sentence will not be increased despite complaints|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/30/rolf-harris-prison-sentence-not-increased|access-date=30 July 2014|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=30 July 2014}}</ref>

On 1 August 2014, the Judicial Office said that Harris had applied to appeal against his conviction and that his lawyers had lodged papers at the Court of Appeal.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris challenges indecent assault conviction|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28604456|access-date=1 August 2014|work=[[BBC News]]|date=1 August 2014}}</ref> In October 2014, Harris was refused permission to appeal, and could apply again before three judges.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris loses first conviction appeal bid|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29852227|access-date=2 November 2014|work=[[BBC News]]|date=31 October 2014}}</ref> Harris did not lodge an appeal within the required 28 days, or ask for an extension.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris gives up attempt to overturn sexual assault convictions|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/02/rolf-harris-gives-up-attempt-to-overturn-sexual-assault-convictions|access-date=1 December 2014|agency=Australian Associated Press|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=1 December 2014}}</ref>

Following his conviction, it was reported in July 2014,<ref>{{cite news|author1=Australian Associated Press|title=Rolf Harris: New Zealander makes formal complaint of sexual assault|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/11/rolf-harris-new-zealand-woman-makes-formal-complaint-of-assault?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2|access-date=12 July 2014|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=11 July 2014}}</ref> October 2014<ref>{{cite news|author1=Australian Associated Press|title=Rolf Harris could face fresh charges as 10 new victims reportedly allege abuse|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/13/rolf-harris-could-face-fresh-charges-as-10-new-victims-allege-abuse|access-date=17 October 2014|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=12 October 2014}}</ref> and February 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31156427|title=Rolf Harris 'quizzed over sex offences'|date=5 February 2015|access-date=5 February 2015|work=[[BBC News]] }}</ref> that he was being investigated by police over other alleged sexual offences.

On 14 June 2015, ''[[The Mail on Sunday]]'' published a letter, claimed to have been written by Harris in prison and sent to one of his friends. It contained song lyrics that were highly abusive towards his female accusers. Harris was accused by Liz Dux, lawyer for the women who gave evidence, of [[victim blaming]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/i-represented-rolf-harris-victims-and-have-been-disgusted-by-his-lack-of-remorse-10322482.html|title=I represented Rolf Harris' victims, and have been disgusted by his lack of remorse|work=The Independent}}</ref> In response to the lyrics one of the victims said, "What he did was damage young women's self-worth, their confidence and for some of those women, he affected them deeply for the rest of their lives."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33135532|title=Rolf Harris jail song shows 'he still doesn't care'|work=[[BBC News]] |date=15 June 2015|access-date=16 August 2015}}</ref> The publication of the letter led Dux to question whether Harris should get parole:<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33125545|title=Victims lawyer: Rolf Harris 'woodworm' prison song 'must affect parole'|date=14 June 2015|access-date=14 June 2015|work=[[BBC News]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/child-protection/11673837/Rolf-Harris-cannot-be-denied-parole-despite-mocking-victims-in-prison-song.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/child-protection/11673837/Rolf-Harris-cannot-be-denied-parole-despite-mocking-victims-in-prison-song.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Rolf Harris cannot be denied parole despite mocking victims in prison song|date=14 June 2015 |access-date=8 February 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rolf-harris-revolting-song-calling-victims-moneygrabbing-wenches-should-affect-his-parole-says-victims-lawyer-10318807.html|title=Rolf Harris' 'revolting' song insulting his victims should 'affect his parole' says lawyer|date=14 June 2015|access-date=8 February 2017}}</ref>

{{Blockquote | style=font-size:100% | text=It should certainly affect the way he's treated when he applies for early release – he hasn't understood the severity of his crimes. This letter was clearly written by a man who has contempt for his victims and is utterly unrepentant. Far from being reformed by his time in prison, it seems to have fed his perverse sense of indignation and his arrogance is undiminished. If it is the case that a parole board can't take this into account it is totally wrong. Harris has caused those he abused great harm, and by writing this letter, he continues to cause them harm.}}

In 2014, [[Vanessa Feltz]] alleged that Harris sexually assaulted her while she interviewed him live on the bed during an edition of [[Channel 4]] morning programme ''[[The Big Breakfast]]'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/06/linda-nolan-vanessa-feltz-rolf-harris|title=Vanessa Feltz and Linda Nolan reveal assaults by Rolf Harris|first=Chris|last=Johnston|date=6 July 2014|access-date=16 October 2022|work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> and [[Linda Nolan]] alleged that he groped her in 1975, when she was 15, when [[the Nolan Sisters]] were his support act in South Africa.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28190812|title='Vile' reaction to Vanessa Feltz's Rolf Harris claims|work=[[BBC News]] |date=July 2014}}</ref>
	
Harris served his sentence initially at [[HM Prison Bullingdon]], then [[HM Prison Stafford]], which is specifically for men convicted of sex offences.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/10/13/rolf-harris-now-in-stafford-prison/|title=Rolf Harris now in Stafford Prison|work=expressandstar.com|date=13 October 2014 }}</ref> He was released on 19 May 2017, after serving three years of his sentence.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39973440|title=Rolf Harris released from Stafford Prison|date=19 May 2017|access-date=19 May 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref>

===Further charges===
On 12 February 2016, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that Harris would face seven further indecent assault charges. The offences allegedly occurred between 1971 and 2004 and involve seven complainants who were aged between 12 and 27 at the time.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35561645?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central | title=Harris faces indecent assault charges | work=[[BBC News]] | date=12 February 2016 | access-date=12 February 2016}}</ref> Harris pleaded not guilty to all of the charges via [[videolink]] at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 17 March and was told to appear at Southwark Crown Court on 14 April.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.sky.com/story/1661815/rolf-harris-denies-indecent-assault-charges | title= Rolf Harris Denies Indecent Assault Charges | publisher=Sky News | date=17 March 2016 | access-date=18 March 2016}}</ref> On 14 April, he pleaded not guilty to six charges of indecent assault and one charge of sexual assault.

Harris's trial began on 9 January 2017,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36044681|title=Rolf Harris pleads not guilty to indecent assaults|work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=14 April 2016}}</ref> with him appearing and watching by videolink from Stafford Prison. Harris did not have to attend in person because of his age and poor health.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/15/rolf-harris-will-not-have-to-attend-own-trial-in-person-judge-rules Rolf Harris will not have to attend own trial in person, judge rules] ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref> The prosecution started its case on 11 January; the allegations involved unwanted [[groping]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/09/rolf-harris-watches-on-video-link-as-indecent-assault-trial-begins Rolf Harris watches on videolink as indecent assault trial begins] ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref> Unlike at the previous trial, Harris did not give any evidence. His defence said that the jury in the first trial "got it wrong" and that the ensuing media frenzy "made him vulnerable to people making accusations against him".<ref name="Sky News-2017">{{cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/rolf-harris-cleared-of-three-sex-offences-10760266|title=Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris cleared of three sex offences|date=8 February 2017|publisher=Sky News|access-date=19 February 2017}}</ref> On 8 February, Harris was acquitted of three charges. Judge Alistair McCreath discharged the jury from deliberating on the further four counts of which he was accused.<ref name="Sky News-2017"/>

The prosecution team asked for one week to decide if it would apply for a retrial.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/08/rolf-harris-cleared-new-child-sex-offences-spanning-four-decades/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/08/rolf-harris-cleared-new-child-sex-offences-spanning-four-decades/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Rolf Harris cleared of new child sex charges spanning four decades after second trial|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=8 February 2017|access-date=8 February 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On 15 February, it was announced he would face a retrial for three offences, and one new charge (to which he pleaded not guilty). His retrial began on 15 May.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rolf-harris-sex-offence-rape-paedophile-tv-presenter-acquitted-retrial-a7580961.html|title=Rolf Harris faces retrial on three sex offence charges|date=15 February 2017|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=15 February 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref> On 30 May, the jury were unable to reach verdicts and the prosecution announced that they would not pursue another retrial.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/30/rolf-harris-sexual-abuse-jury-discharged-after-failing-to-reach-verdict|title= Rolf Harris: no retrial on sex abuse charges after jury fails to reach verdict|date=30 May 2017|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=30 May 2017}}</ref>

===One conviction overturned===
On 16 November 2017, Harris's conviction on the charge that he had indecently assaulted an eight-year-old girl at a community centre in Portsmouth in 1969 was overturned on the grounds that it was [[unsafe conviction|unsafe]]. The [[Court of Appeal (England and Wales)|Court of Appeal]] dismissed applications to challenge the other eleven convictions from the 2014 trial.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42012064|title=Rolf Harris indecent assault conviction overturned|work=[[BBC News]] |date=16 November 2017|access-date=16 November 2017}}</ref>

===Documentary===
A documentary, ''Rolf Harris: Hiding in Plain Sight'', featuring interviews with Harris's victims, police investigators and colleagues premiered on [[ITVX]] on 18 May 2023.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/18/rolf-harris-hiding-in-plain-sight-review-the-awful-truth-behind-the-abuse-that-shocked-a-nation|title=Rolf Harris: Hiding in Plain Sight review – the awful truth behind the abuse that shocked a nation| publisher=The Guardian. 18 May 2023 | accessdate=21 May 2023}}</ref> The two 60-minute episodes were made by [[Optomen]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-commissions-rolf-harris-documentary-produced-optomen-television-itv-x|title=ITV commissions Rolf Harris documentary produced by Optomen Television for ITV X | publisher=ITV Press Centre. 4 August 2022 | accessdate=4 August 2022}}</ref>

==Personal life, illness and death==
On 1 March 1958, in London, Harris married Alwen Hughes, a Welsh sculptor and jeweller, while they were both art students.<ref name="BBC" /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110409195148/http://www.rolfharrisentertainer.com/music.html Rolf Harris: Music, Publishing, Recordings], rolfharrisentertainer.com; retrieved 27 June 2014.</ref> In 1964, he and his wife had a daughter.<ref>Sweet, Corinne. (7 February 2003). "[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2003/feb/07/art.artsfeatures1 Interview: Bindi Harris]". ''[[The Guardian]]''; retrieved 19 April 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Miranda, Charles |date=1 July 2014 |url=http://www.news.com.au/world/bindi-nicholls-disillusioned-by-father-rolf-harris-i-had-him-on-a-pedestal-and-now-i-can-see-him-as-a-man/story-fndir2ev-1226973041391 |title=Bindi Nicholls disillusioned by father Rolf Harris: 'I had him on a pedestal and now I can see him as a man' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416022520/http://www.news.com.au/world/bindi-nicholls-disillusioned-by-father-rolf-harris-i-had-him-on-a-pedestal-and-now-i-can-see-him-as-a-man/story-fndir2ev-1226973041391 |archive-date=16 April 2015 |website= News.com.au |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/rolf-harris-death-disgraced-entertainers-health-declined-rapidly-in-his-final-years/5RUQDGJBYFA7FJLT37QTQNPNYY/ |title=Rolf Harris' death: Disgraced entertainer's health declined rapidly in his final years |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=23 May 2023 |access-date=24 May 2023 }}</ref>

In September 2016, it was reported that Harris, who had been serving his prison sentence at the time, had been hospitalised with suspected [[sepsis]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rolf-harris-hospital-blood-poisoning-prison-stafford-latest-news-a7309611.html | title=Rolf Harris 'rushed to hospital with serious illness' | website=[[Independent.co.uk]] | date=15 September 2016 }}</ref>

In October 2022, it was reported that Harris was suffering [[Head and neck cancer|neck cancer]], mostly unable to speak, and was being fed via a tube. He also required 24-hour care.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rolf-harris-neck-cancer-care-b2195916.html|title='Gravely ill' Rolf Harris 'receiving 24-hour care for neck cancer'|first=Zoe|last=Tidman|date=5 October 2022|website=The Independent}}</ref> Harris died at his home in [[Bray, Berkshire]], on 10 May 2023, aged 93.<ref name="BBC-2023">{{cite news |title=Rolf Harris: Serial abuser and ex-entertainer dies aged 93 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=23 May 2023 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60393842 |access-date=23 May 2023}}</ref> His death was not publicly announced until 23 May,<ref>{{cite news |last=Harris |first=Rob |title=Convicted paedophile Rolf Harris dead aged 93 |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/convicted-paedophile-rolf-harris-dead-aged-93-20221006-p5bnmv.html |access-date=24 May 2023 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=23 May 2023 |language=en}}</ref> when it was confirmed to the press by the [[Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead]] [[Register office (United Kingdom)|register office]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Topping |first1=Alexandra |last2=Waterson |first2=Jim |title=Rolf Harris, convicted sex offender and entertainer, dies aged 93 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/23/rolf-harris-entertainer-and-convicted-sex-offender-dies |work=[[The Guardian]] |quotation=Speculation over Harris's health has built in recent weeks and it is unclear at this stage when he died. |date=23 May 2023}}</ref> His [[death certificate]] gave the cause of death as neck cancer and "[[Frailty syndrome|frailty of old age]]". Harris was cremated.<ref name="BBC-2023" />

On 15 August 2024, his widow Alwen Hughes died aged 92.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-12 |title=Rolf Harris's widow Alwen Hughes dies aged 92 |url=https://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/national/24580702.rolf-harriss-widow-alwen-hughes-dies-aged-92/ |access-date=2024-09-12 |website=Keighley News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/12/rolf-harris-widow-dies-year-after-disgraced-entertainer/|title=Rolf Harris's widow dies year after disgraced entertainer|first=Telegraph|last=Reporters|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=12 September 2024|via=www.telegraph.co.uk |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==Honours==
Harris received multiple awards and honours, but following his conviction many of these were rescinded.<ref name="News.com.au-2014">{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/perth-rolf-harris-monument-to-get-the-chop/story-e6frfku9-1226973451185|title=Harris stripped of honours as purge begins|work=news.com.au|date=1 July 2014|access-date=1 July 2014|archive-date=14 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814142825/http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/perth-rolf-harris-monument-to-get-the-chop/story-e6frfku9-1226973451185|url-status=dead}}</ref> Harris was appointed a [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in 1968; he was advanced to Officer (OBE) in 1977, then to Commander (CBE) in 2006,<ref name="GG-2012">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617004657/http://www.gg.gov.au/res/file/2012/honours/qb2012/Media%20Notes%20AO%20%28final%29.pdf |archive-date=17 June 2012 |url=http://www.gg.gov.au/res/file/2012/honours/qb2012/Media%20Notes%20AO%20%28final%29.pdf |title=Media Notes AO |access-date=30 June 2014 |date=6 June 2012 |work=The Australian Honours Secretariat |url-status=dead}}</ref> but these honours were revoked in March 2015.<ref name="BBC-2015"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2295581|date=3 March 2015|access-date=3 March 2015|title=Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood|work=[[London Gazette]]}}</ref>

In 1986, Harris planted a ''[[Cathormion|Cathormion umbellatum]]'' tree at [[Kununurra]]'s celebrity tree park.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Walsh|first1=Rourke|title=Vote on Harris' honour|url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/24437291/vote-on-harris-honour|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814010612/https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/24437291/vote-on-harris-honour/|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 August 2014|access-date=30 July 2014|work=The Kimberley Echo|date=11 July 2014}}</ref> The plaque recording the planting was stolen in July 2014, a week before the local council voted to keep it. The council, however, felt that ongoing vandalism at the park made it unlikely that the plaque would be replaced.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris plaque to be retained despite being stolen|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/30/rolf-harris-plaque-to-be-retained-despite-being-stolen|access-date=7 April 2015|agency=Australian Associated Press|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=30 July 2014}}</ref>

In 1989, he was appointed a Member of the [[Order of Australia]] (AM),<ref name="PMC">[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/869847 Rolf Harris's citation] at the Australian Government's "It's an Honour" website; accessed 13 September 2016.</ref> and was advanced to Officer (AO) in the [[2012 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)|Queen's 2012 Birthday Honours]].<ref name="GG-2012"/> These appointments were rescinded in February 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C2015G00261|title=Termination of appointments – Order of Australia|work=[[ComLaw]]|date=19 February 2015|access-date=23 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-23/rolf-harris-stripped-of-oam/6218022|title=Rolf Harris stripped of Order of Australia honours by the Governor-General|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|author=Giselle Wakatama|date=23 February 2015|access-date=23 February 2015}}</ref>

In 2001, he was awarded the [[Centenary Medal]] "for service to entertainment, charity and the community".<ref name="PMC"/> On 30 July 2014, the board of the [[National Trust of Australia]] (New South Wales) voted to remove Harris from the list of those honoured as "[[Australian National Living Treasures]]" and to withdraw the award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltrust.org.au/nsw/NationalLivingTreasures |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129093613/http://www.nationaltrust.org.au/nsw/NationalLivingTreasures |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 January 2013 |title=National Living Treasures |access-date=2 October 2014}}</ref> Harris had been among the original 100 Australians selected for the Medal in 1997.

Harris received two honorary doctorates: from the [[University of East London]] in 2007<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/latest_news/stories/graduation07Rolf.htm|title= Rolf Harris receives Honorary Doctorate of the University of East London|publisher=[[University of East London]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523191409/http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/latest_news/stories/graduation07Rolf.htm|archive-date=23 May 2010|access-date=30 June 2014}}</ref> and [[Liverpool Hope University]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hope.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&id=4824&task=view&Itemid=1690|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722025333/http://www.hope.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&id=4824&task=view&Itemid=1690|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 July 2011|title=Liverpool Hope Honours Rolf Harris – Liverpool Hope University|publisher=Hope.ac.uk|access-date=30 March 2011}}</ref> Both were rescinded following his indecent assault conviction.<ref>{{cite news|first=Tom|last=Belger|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/02/rolf-harris-honorary-doctorate|title=Rolf Harris stripped of honorary doctorate|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=2 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Lorna|last=Hughes|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/rolf-harris-stripped-honorary-degree-7374589|title=Rolf Harris stripped of honorary degree from Liverpool Hope University|work=Liverpool Echo|date=3 July 2014}}</ref>

In 2008, Harris was inducted into the [[ARIA Hall of Fame]]. He was joined onstage by [[the Seekers]] to perform "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" and his "Jake the Peg" routine.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23855523-662,00.html|title=Rolf Harris in the ARIA Hall of Fame, sport|work=[[Herald Sun]]|last=Zonneveldt|first=Mandi|date=13 June 2008|access-date=14 June 2008}}</ref> After his conviction, the [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] removed him from the ARIA Hall of Fame.<ref name="News.com.au-2014"/>

The same year, to coincide with the release of ''Art: The Definitive Visual Guide'', publishers [[Dorling Kindersley]] conducted the "What the British really think about art today" survey and placed Harris above notable English artist [[Damien Hirst]].<ref name="Lom-2008"/>

In 2011, Harris was awarded the title of "Best Selling Published Artist" by the [[Fine Art Trade Guild]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fineart.co.uk/Awards_Meet_Learn_Celebrate.aspx|title=Previous Award Winners|author=Fine Art Trade Guild|publisher=[[Fine Art Trade Guild]]|year=2012|access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/8818746/The-last-laugh-belongs-to-top-selling-artist-Rolf-Harris.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/8818746/The-last-laugh-belongs-to-top-selling-artist-Rolf-Harris.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The last laugh belongs to top-selling artist Rolf Harris|author=Judith Woods|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=11 October 2011|access-date=11 October 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He was made a [[BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award|Fellow of BAFTA]] the following year,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17913020|title=Rolf Harris to receive Bafta Fellowship| access-date=2 May 2012|date=2 May 2012|work=[[BBC News]] }}</ref> but following his conviction, the academy announced that his fellowship would be annulled.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/rolf-harris-will-be-stripped-of-bafta-fellowship-and-could-lose-cbe-from-queen-30395193.html|title=Rolf Harris will be stripped of BAFTA Fellowship and could lose CBE from Queen|access-date=7 April 2015|date=30 June 2014|work=Belfast Telegraph}}</ref> In July 2014, [[Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir]] announced that Harris's honorary vice-presidency had been annulled.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-28197922|title=Froncysyllte Male Choir severs ties with Rolf Harris|work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=7 April 2015}}</ref>

===ARIA Music Awards===
The [[ARIA Music Awards]] is an annual awards ceremony held by the [[Australian Recording Industry Association]]. They commenced in 1987.

{{awards table}}
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 1994|1994]]
| ''Rolf Rules OK''
| [[ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release|Best Comedy Release]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/award/Best-Comedy-Release|title=ARIA Awards Best Comedy Release|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)|access-date=17 April 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2008|2008]]
| Rolf Harris
| [[ARIA Hall of Fame]]
| {{no|Revoked}}
| <ref name="News.com.au-2014"/>
|-
{{end}}

==Books==
* {{cite book |last=Harris |first=Rolf |title= Can You Tell what it is Yet? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PVY9AAAACAAJ |year=2002 |publisher=Corgi |isbn=978-055-21484-43}}

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
!Ref.
|-
|1955
|''[[You Lucky People]]''
|Private Proudfoot
|Film
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=You Lucky People! (1955) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb623e9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918150853/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb623e9 |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 September 2020 |access-date=23 May 2023 |website=[[British Film Institute]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|1956
|''Jim Whittington and His Sealion''
|The Demon King
|TV film
|
|-
|1958–59
|''[[The Vise (1955 TV series)|The Vise]]''
|
|TV series
|
|-
| rowspan="3"|1959
|''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]''
|Unnamed characters
|TV series
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Flight of the Red Shadow (1959) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b81982c5e |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310054625/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b81982c5e |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 March 2018 |access-date=23 May 2023 |website=[[British Film Institute]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Web of Suspicion]]''
|Ben
|Film
|<ref name="TV Guide">{{cite web |title=Rolf Harris List of Movies and TV Shows |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/rolf-harris/credits/3030222983/ |website=TV Guide |access-date=24 May 2023}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Crash Drive]]''
|Bart
|Film
|<ref name="TV Guide" />
|-
|1960
|''[[The Man from Interpol]]''
|Grady
|TV series
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Man from Interpol Season 1 Episodes |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/man-from-interpol/episodes-season-1/1000230822/ |website=TV Guide |access-date=24 May 2023}}</ref>
|-
|1963
|''[[To Tell the Truth]]''
|Contestant
|TV series
|<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_G1YSX4k4U |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/E_G1YSX4k4U| archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=Rolf Harris on 'To Tell the Truth' (December 9, 1963)|work=YouTube|date=28 February 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
|-
|1968
|''[[Christmas Night with the Stars]]''
|Contributor
|TV series
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Christmas Night with the Stars (1968) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b826f0ab0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191005211625/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b826f0ab0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 October 2019 |access-date=23 May 2023 |website=[[British Film Institute]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|1974–75
|''[[The Sooty Show]]''
|Himself
|TV series: 2 episodes
|
|-
|1979
|''[[The Little Convict]]''
|Grandpa
|Film
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Little Convict (1979) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7399304b |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230527152208/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7399304b |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 May 2023 |access-date=23 May 2023 |website=[[British Film Institute]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|1979–1989
|''[[Rolf Harris Cartoon Time]]''
|Himself
|TV series
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|1985
|''[[Highway (TV series)|Highway]]''
|Contributor
|TV series
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Highway Christmas Special (1985) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c39317a |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029203934/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c39317a |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 October 2021 |access-date=23 May 2023 |website=[[British Film Institute]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Kids Can Say No!]]''
|Himself
|Short film
|
|-
|1989–1993
|''[[Rolf's Cartoon Club]]''
|Himself
|TV series
|
|-
|1994–2004
|''[[Animal Hospital]]''
|Himself
|TV series
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00h1lrv | title=BBC One - Animal Hospital }}</ref>
|-
|1998
|''[[Goodnight Sweetheart (TV series)|Goodnight Sweetheart]]''
|Himself
|TV series
|<ref name="TV Guide" />
|-
|2001
|''[[Fetch the Vet]]''
|Ralph Morris
|TV series
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Fetch the Vet |url=https://www.avclub.com/tv/reviews/fetch-the-vet-2000 |website=AV Club |access-date=24 May 2023}}</ref>
|-
|2004–07
|''[[Star Portraits with Rolf Harris]]''
|Himself
|TV series
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|2011
|''Olive the Ostrich''
|Narrator
|TV series
|<ref name="TV Guide" />
|-
|''The Fruit Cases''
|Captain Straw
|TV series
|
|-
|2012
|''[[Run for Your Wife (2012 film)|Run for Your Wife]]''
|Busker
|Film
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Run for Your Wife (2013) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/50cbb2695234c |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105193402/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/50cbb2695234c |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 January 2019 |access-date=23 May 2023 |website=[[British Film Institute]] |language=en}}</ref>
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|0365271|Rolf Harris}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071114021636/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/55463 BFI Database: Rolf Harris]
* {{discogs artist|Rolf Harris}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071219195655/http://whiteimage.com/rolf-harris/archive/146.html Some examples of Rolf Harris's art]
* [http://www.artdesigncafe.com/Rolf-Harris-Celebrity-artist-John-A-Walker-2005 Walker, John A. (February 2005). "Rolf Harris: Celebrity artist"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823105559/https://www.artdesigncafe.com/Rolf-Harris-Celebrity-artist-John-A-Walker-2005 |date=23 August 2018 }}. ''Jamani/artdesigncafe''.

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