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John Kent Harrison
London, Ontario, Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Kent Harrison is a television producer, director and writer. Harrison was educated at Columbia University and at Appleby College in C…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Kent Harrison is a television producer, director and writer. Harrison was educated at Columbia University and at Appleby College in Canada. Harrison is best known for his work in the international miniseries format. Various credits include The Water is Wide (2006), Pope John Paul II (2005) with Jon Voight who was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as Pope John Paul II. Two other popular films are A Bear Named Winnie (2004), Emmy Award winning Helen of Troy (2003), and A Wrinkle in Time (mini-series) which won the International Children's Film Festival in 2003. With a 34 share, his 1996 TV movie, What The Deaf Man Heard, has been the highest-rated stand-alone 2-hour TV movie since 1991. It was also nominated for an Emmy Award as Best TV movie of the year. The following year his Hallmark Hall of Fame production, William Faulkner's Old Man with Arliss Howard and Jeanne Tripplehorn won two Emmy Awards, the Humanitas Prize and the Columbus Gold Medal. In 2009 Harrison was nominated by the DGA as best TV movie director of the year for his Hallmark Hall of Fame production of "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler" with Anna Paquin who was also nominated for a Golden Globe in her role as Irena Sendler, a Polish hero of the Holocaust. Also that year, Harrison directed Winona Ryder and Barry Pepper in another Hallmark Hall of Fame Production, "The Lois Wilson Story" about Lois and Bill Wilson who respectively founded Al-Anon and AA. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Kent Harrison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2017
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
Movie Director
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2017
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
Movie Director
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2016
Anne of Green Gables
Movie Director
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2013
Christmas in Conway
Movie Director
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2011
Game of Your Life
Movie Director
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2011
Change of Plans
Movie Director
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2010
A Walk in My Shoes
Movie Director
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2010
When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
Movie Director
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2009
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Movie Director
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2007
Crossroads - A Story of Forgiveness
Movie Director
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2006
The Water Is Wide
Movie Director
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2005
Pope John Paul II
TV show Director
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2004
A Bear Named Winnie
Movie Director
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2004
The Winning Season
Movie Director
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2003
A Wrinkle in Time
Movie Director
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2003
Helen of Troy
TV show Director
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2001
In Love and War
Movie Director
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2000
A House Divided
Movie Director
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1999
You Know My Name
Movie Director
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1997
What the Deaf Man Heard
Movie Director
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1997
Old Man
Movie Director
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1996
Calm at Sunset
Movie Teleplay
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1995
The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky
Movie Director
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1995
Johnny's Girl
Movie Director
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1994
City Boy
Movie Director
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1994
For the Love of Aaron
Movie Director
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1993
Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica
Movie Director
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1993
The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
Movie Director
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1990
Beautiful Dreamers
Movie Director
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1983
Thanks for the Ride
Movie Director
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1982
Murder by Phone
Movie Screenplay
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1980
Coming Out Alive
Movie Writer
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1980
Bravery in the Field
Movie Writer
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1977
Shock Waves
Movie Screenplay
