Harris’s €500,000 parking bill

RICHARD HARRIS landed his widow with a €500,000 parking bill for a car he put in a garage and forgot about.

The Limerick actor was given a Rolls Royce Phantom as part of a deal for appearing with Kirk Douglas in the 1965 film The Heroes of Telemark.

The World War Two drama, which was filmed in Norway, was moderately successful but Mr Harris obviously forgot about the car. It lay in a New York car park for a quarter of a century at a cost of €350 a week.