Biography
Harry Harris (September 8, 1922 β March 19, 2009) was an American television and film director.Harris moved to Los Angeles in 1937 and got a mailroom job at Columbia Studios. After attending UCLA, he became an apprentice sound cutter, assistant sound effects editor, and then an assistant film editor at Columbia Pictures. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces at the start of World War II, and as part of the First Motion Picture Unit, reported to Hal Roach Studios in Culver City. His supervisor there was Ronald Reagan, who hired him as sound effects editor for training and combat films.At the end of World War II, Harris became an assistant film editor and then an editor for Desilu, the studio of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Over the next five decades, he directed hundreds of TV episodes, with significant contributions to Gunsmoke, Eight is Enough, The Waltons, and Falcon Crest. He won an Emmy Award for directing a 1982 episode of Fame, and was nominated for two other Emmy Awards and a Directors Guild of America Award.
Filmography
all 77
Director 77
TV Shows 68
Movies 9
The Cape (1996)
7th Heaven (1996)
Savannah (1996)
In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound (1995)
University Hospital (1995)
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993)
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
Bodies of Evidence (1992)
Sisters (1991)
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
Father Dowling Mysteries (1989)
A Fine Romance (1989)
Paradise (1988)
In the Heat of the Night (1988)
Supercarrier (1988)
Eight Is Enough: A Family Reunion (1987)
Jake and the Fatman (1987)
The Oldest Rookie (1987)
Shell Game (1987)
Our House (1986)
MacGyver (1985)
Spenser: For Hire (1985)
Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)
Boone (1983)
The Mississippi (1983)
Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of Your Parents? (1983)
A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain (1982)
Remington Steele (1982)
Hotel (1982)
Cagney & Lacey (1982)
Fame (1982)
Falcon Crest (1981)
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter (1981)
Nurse (1981)
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Mackenzies of Paradise Cove (1979)
Dallas (1978)
The Young Pioneers (1978)
Confessions of the D.A. Man (1978)
Man from Atlantis (1977)
Eight Is Enough (1977)
Hunter (1977)
Spencer's Pilots (1976)
The Swiss Family Robinson (1975)
The Swiss Family Robinson (1975)
The Runaways (1975)
Apple's Way (1974)
Doc Elliot (1973)
Shaft (1973)
Kung Fu (1972)
ABC Afterschool Special (1972)
The Waltons (1972)
Love, American Style (1969)
Land of the Giants (1968)
Adam-12 (1968)
Hawaii Five-O (1968)
The High Chaparral (1967)
Hondo (1967)
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966)
T.H.E. Cat (1966)
The Time Tunnel (1966)
Lost in Space (1965)
The Legend of Jesse James (1965)
Branded (1965)
Daniel Boone (1964)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
The Virginian (1962)
Dante (1960)
The Islanders (1960)
Rawhide (1959)
Naked City (1958)
The Texan (1958)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
Perry Mason (1957)
Gunsmoke (1955)
Death Valley Days (1952)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1922-09-08
Deathday2009-03-19 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceKansas City, Missouri, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsHarry Harris Jr.
AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
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