Robert Harmon Explained

Robert Harmon
Birth Place:White Plains, New York, U.S.[1]
Occupation:Film director, television director

Robert Harmon (born 1953) is an American film and television director. He is best known for the 1986 horror film The Hitcher, starring Rutger Hauer,[2] 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 (also starring Selleck) and Gotti, starring Armand Assante. He has directed a few episodes of the TV show Blue Bloods, which also stars Tom Selleck.

Awards and nominations

Harmon has been nominated twice for a Directors Guild of America Award in 1997 and 2004.

Selected credits

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20170915212739/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba4c9b541 Robert Harmon
  2. Web site: The New York Times. SCREEN: 'THE HITCHER,' TERROR ON THE HIGHWAYS. Janet Maslin. Maslin, Janet. February 21, 1986.