Claim: This Sporting Life was Richard Harris's first starring role in 2009.
Evidence: The film was Richard Harris 's first starring role , and won him a Best Actor Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
This Sporting Life is a 1963 British feature film based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey , which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award.