Harvey Hart Biography
Harvey Hart (1928 – 1989) was a Canadian film and television director and television producer. He studied at the University of Toronto before being hired by the CBC in 1952. For this he created over 30 television productions, including several episodes of an anthology series, Festival, such as Home of the Brave (1961) and The Luck of Ginger Coffey ( 1961), adaptations of a 1946 play and a 1960 novel. In 1963 he left the CBC and moved to the United States, where, in the following years, he directed episodes of TV series such as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Star Trek, as well as theatrical features, including Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965) and The Sweet Ride (1968). He returned to Toronto in 1970 where he directed several feature films, including Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971), The Pyx (1973), Shoot (1976) and Goldenrod (1976), for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Director .[3] In the mid-1970s Hart directed four episodes of Columbo: By Dawn's Early Light (1974), A Deadly State of Mind (1975), Forgotten Lady (1975), and Now You See Him (1976). He continued to split his time between film work in Canada and television work in Los Angeles throughout the 1980s. He received a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries or Television Film for the miniseries East of Eden (1981) and a Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Drama Program or Miniseries for the television drama film Passion and Paradise (1989). Harvey Hart died of a heart attack in 1989.
