'Unpredictable' Dumbledore star Richard Harris seen by son 'with face in pound of cocaine'

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Harry Potter needing to find a new Dumbledore for the franchise.The Hollywood star was infamous for his cocaine and alcohol addictions in his younger years, with the actor's sons exposing all in a new Sky Arts documentary, The Ghost of Richard Harris.In the doc, Richard's three sons, Jared, Jamie and Damian, will give an honest look over their father's acting life, exposing the actor's excessive lifestyle.Speaking to the camera, Jamie recalled one incident that showed him the extent of how "unpredictable" his father was.He said: "I walked into his bedroom and it was like a scene from Scarface."He'd dropped this pound of cocaine on the carpet and it had burst open and his face was just in the middle of it.

He was unpredictable."Richard still used to cause trouble in his seventies at pubs in London as he was known for his brawling.His son, Jared, 61, also an acclaimed actor, recalled how his father once went head to head with a younger man in Covent Garden.He said, as reported by The Times: "Dad hits the guy with a sucker punch.

He pretends to put his Guinness down and then leaps up and knocks the man out."The guy's out cold on the floor and his girlfriend's dancing around, saying 'You killed my boyfriend!'"So Dad throws his Guinness in the guy's face and, when he starts to wake, realises, 'I'm not going to win round two, I have to run out of here quickly'."He leaps into a taxi and takes off.