John Kent Harrison
Biography
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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.
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Directing (27 movies)

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
2009

A Wrinkle in Time
2003

The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky
1995

When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
2010

Change of Plans
2011

A Walk in My Shoes
2010

The Winning Season
2004

For the Love of Aaron
1994

In Love and War
2001

Old Man
1997

Game of Your Life
2011

Christmas in Conway
2013

Johnny's Girl
1995

The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
1993

A Bear Named Winnie
2004

What the Deaf Man Heard
1997

You Know My Name
1999

City Boy
1994

Anne of Green Gables
2016

Crossroads - A Story of Forgiveness
2007

The Water Is Wide
2006
Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica
1993

Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
2017

Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
2017

Beautiful Dreamers
1990

A House Divided
2000

Thanks for the Ride
1983
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Shock Waves | 1977 | Screenplay |
| Bravery in the Field | 1980 | Writer |
| Coming Out Alive | 1980 | Writer |
| Murder by Phone | 1982 | Screenplay |
| Thanks for the Ride | 1983 | Writer |
| Beautiful Dreamers | 1990 | Screenplay |
| The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story | 1993 | Writer |
| Johnny's Girl | 1995 | Writer |
| You Know My Name | 1999 | Writer |
| The Winning Season | 2004 | Writer |
| A Bear Named Winnie | 2004 | Writer |
| The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler | 2009 | Writer |
| Change of Plans | 2011 | Writer |