Harry Harris (director)

American director

Harry Harris
Born	Harry Harris (1922-09-08)September 8, 1922 Kansas City, Missouri, US
Died	March 19, 2009(2009-03-19) (aged 86) Los Angeles, California, US
Resting place	Los Angeles
Other names	Harry Harris Jr.
Height	5' 11'
Children	2

Harry Harris (September 8, 1922 – March 19, 2009) was an American television and film director.^[1]^[2]

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.^[2]

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.^[2]

Death

Harris died March 19, 2009, in Los Angeles of complications of myelodsplasia. He was 86. He was survived by his wife, Patty; daughters, Joanne, a hairstylist and Suzanne; and a stepson, Michael Daruty, an NBC Universal exec. Services were held Wednesday, March 25, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., at Hillside Memorial Park.

References

^ "Passings". Los Angeles Times. March 24, 2009. Retrieved March 24, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c Saperstein, Pat (March 23, 2009). "TV director Harry Harris dies". Variety. Retrieved March 24, 2009.

External links

Harry Harris at IMDb

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series

1950s

Jack Smight for "Eddie" (1959)

1960s

Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (1960)
George Schaefer for Macbeth (1961)
Franklin J. Schaffner for The Defenders (1962)
Stuart Rosenberg for "The Madman" (1963)
Tom Gries for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964)
Paul Bogart for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965)
Sydney Pollack for "The Game" (1966)
Alex Segal for Death of a Salesman (1967)
Paul Bogart for "Dear Friends" (1968)
David Greene for "The People Next Door" (1969)

1970s

Paul Bogart for "Shadow Game" (1970)
Daryl Duke for "The Day the Lion Died" (1971)
Alexander Singer for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" (1972)
Jerry Thorpe for "An Eye for an Eye" (1973)
Robert Butler for "Part III" (1974)
Bill Bain for "A Sudden Storm" (1975)
David Greene for "Part I: Chapters 1 & 2" (Rich Man, Poor Man) (1976)
David Greene for "Part 1" (Roots) (1977)
Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978)
Jackie Cooper for "Pilot" (The White Shadow) (1979)

1980s

Roger Young for "Cop" (1980)
Robert Butler for "Hill Street Station"(1981)
Harry Harris for "To Soar and Never Falter" (1982)
Jeff Bleckner for "Life in the Minors" (1983)
Corey Allen for "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" (1984)
Karen Arthur for "Heat" (1985)
Georg Stanford Brown for "Parting Shots" (1986)
Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot" (L.A. Law) (1987)
Mark Tinker for "Weigh In, Way Out" (1988)
Robert Altman for "The Boiler Room" (1989)

1990s

Thomas Carter for "Promises to Keep" / Scott Winant for "The Go-Between" (1990)
Thomas Carter for "In Confidence" (1991)
Eric Laneuville for "All God's Children" (1992)
Barry Levinson for "Gone for Goode" (1993)
Daniel Sackheim for "Tempest in a C-Cup" (1994)
Mimi Leder for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995)
Jeremy Kagan for "Leave of Absence" (1996)
Mark Tinker for "Where's 'Swaldo?" (1997)
Mark Tinker for "Pilot" (Brooklyn South) / Paris Barclay for "Lost Israel, Part 2" (1998)
Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)