Harvey Hart was a Canadian film director

Film director

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 and television producer

Television producer

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.

Hart studied at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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, before being hired by the CBC

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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 in 1952. For them he created over 30 television productions, among them The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1959) and Home of the Brave (1960).

In 1963 he left the CBC and moved to the United States

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, where he worked on such TV series as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Star Trek

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.

He moved back to Toronto in 1970 where he directed several feature films, including Fortune and Men's Eyes

Fortune and Men's Eyes

Fortune and Men's Eyes is a 1967 play and 1971 film by John Herbert about a young man's experience in prison, exploring themes of homosexuality and sexual slavery. The title comes from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 which begins with the line "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes". It has...

, The Pyx

The Pyx

The Pyx is a 1973 Canadian supernatural thriller film starring Karen Black and Christopher Plummer...

, Shoot

Shoot (film)

Shoot is a Canadian film directed by Harvey Hart. The screenplay was written by Richard Berg and based on the novel of the same name by Douglas Fairbairn....

and Goldenrod, for which he won a Canadian Film Award

Canadian Film Award

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 for Best Director. Hart continued splitting his time between film work in Canada and television work in Los Angeles

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 throughout the 1980s. He received a Golden Globe for the mini-series East of Eden (1981) and a Gemini Award

Gemini Award

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 for the mini-series Passion and Paradise (1989). Harvey Hart died of a heart attack in 1989.

Selected filmography

• Passion and Paradise (1989) (TV)
• Stone Fox (1987) (TV)
• Utilities
  Utilities (film)
  Utilities is a 1983 film starring Robert Hays and Brooke Adams.One of Bob Hunt's neighbours' electricity is cut off because she cannot pay the bill...
  
  (1983)
• East of Eden (1981) (TV miniseries)
• The High Country (1981)
• Goldenrod (1976)
• Shoot
  Shoot (film)
  Shoot is a Canadian film directed by Harvey Hart. The screenplay was written by Richard Berg and based on the novel of the same name by Douglas Fairbairn....
  
   (1976)
• The Pyx
  The Pyx
  The Pyx is a 1973 Canadian supernatural thriller film starring Karen Black and Christopher Plummer...
  
   (1973)
• Mahoney's Last Stand (1972)
• Fortune and Men's Eyes
  Fortune and Men's Eyes
  Fortune and Men's Eyes is a 1967 play and 1971 film by John Herbert about a young man's experience in prison, exploring themes of homosexuality and sexual slavery. The title comes from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 which begins with the line "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes". It has...
  
   (1971)
• The Sweet Ride
  The Sweet Ride
  The Sweet Ride is an American counter-culture drama with a few surfer/biker exploitation film elements. It stars Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset in an early starring role. The film also features Bob Denver in the role of Choo-Choo, a Beatnik piano-playing draft dodger...
  
   (1968)
• Sullivan's Empire (1967)
• Dark Intruder
  Dark Intruder
  Dark Intruder is a 1965 television movie that was released theatrically. It is a horror film starring Leslie Nielsen, Mark Richman and Judi Meredith set in San Francisco in 1890 concerning playboy sleuth Brett Kingsford...
  
   (1965)
• Bus Riley's Back in Town
  Bus Riley's Back in Town
  Bus Riley's Back in Town is a movie written by William Inge, directed by Harvey Hart, and starring Ann-Margret and Michael Parks.The intense drama depicts a man returning home from three years in the Navy only to find that his girlfriend has married an older man...
  
   (1965)
• The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1959) (TV)

External links

• Complete Harvey Hart Filmography at CITWF