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American film and television director
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(New York City)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Robert Harmon is an American film and television director. He is best known for the 1986 horror film The Hitcher, starring Rutger Hauer, as well as for films like They and Nowhere to Run.
His television work is distinguished by the series of made-for-TV movies featuring fictional Paradise (Mass.) Police Chief Jesse Stone, which began in 2005 with Stone Cold, starring Tom Selleck, as well as the Emmy-nominated biopics Ike: Countdown to D-Day (also starring Selleck) and Gotti, starring Armand Assante. He has directed a few episodes of the TV show Blue Bloods, which stars Tom Selleck.
Awards and nominations
Harmon has been nominated twice for a Directors Guild of America Award in 1997 and 2004.
Selected credits
- China Lake (1983)
- The Hitcher (1986)
- Eyes of an Angel (1991)
- Nowhere to Run (1993)
- Gotti: Rise and Fall of a Mafia Don (1996) (TV)
- The Crossing (2000) (TV)
- Level 9 (2000) TV series (unknown episodes)
- They (2002)
- Highwaymen (2003)
- Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004) (TV)
- Stone Cold (2005) (TV)
- Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006) (TV)
- Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006) (TV)
- Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007) (TV)
- Jesse Stone: Thin Ice 2009) (TV)
- Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010) (TV)
- November Christmas (2010) (TV)
- Blue Bloods (2011) TV series (unknown episodes)
- Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012) (TV)
- Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise (2015) (TV)