John Harrison

Known for DirectingBorn 1948-01-01 (age 78)

John Harrison began his career directing rock videos and working as 1st Asst. Director for famed horror director,George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead (1968)/Creepshow (1982)). Harrison wrote and directed multiple episodes of Romero's classic TV series,Tales from the Darkside (1983)m], before helming Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990), for Paramount Pictures, which won Harrison the Grand Prix du Festival at Avoriaz, France. Harrison co-wrote the animated feature,Dinosaur (2000), for Disney. He also wrote the adaptation of Clive Barker's fantasy novels, "Abarat", also for Disney. In the Fall of '06, Harrison reunited with mentor George Romero to produce Romero's film, Diary of the Dead (2007). His action suspense thriller, Blank Slate (2008), for producer Dean Devlin, which Harrison wrote and directed, aired as a twenty-episode micro-series on TNT in the Fall of 2008. Clive Barker's Book of Blood (2009), which he wrote and directed, was released in the Fall 2009. His 6-hour miniseries adaptation of Frank Herbert's monumental bestseller, Dune (2000), which he directed, was an Emmy Award-winning success in the U.S., then internationally, both in its broadcast premieres and subsequently in home video. Harrison's Children of Dune (2003), another 6-hour miniseries encompassing the next two novels of Frank Herbert's mythic adventure series which he wrote and co-produced, was also an Emmy winner for the Sci-Fi Channel.Read more

Movies & web series

The Late Show

Night Rose: Akhbar's Daughter

Dune: Part Two

Dune

Scary Tales: Night Elevator

Tales from the Crypt

Leverage

Creepshow

After Effects: Memories of Pittsburgh Filmmaking

Donor Unknown

Upstairs, Downstairs

The Librarians

Dawn of the Dead

King on Screen

Tales from the Darkside

Kindred: The Embraced

Monsters

Profiler

Blank Slate

Frank Herbert's Children of Dune

Day of the Dead

Frank Herbert's Dune

Earth 2

Creepshow

Memories of Murder

Dinosaur

Simon & Simon

Nightmare Cafe

Tales from the Darkside

Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'

Superstition

The World’s End: The Legacy of 'Day of the Dead'

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

Knightriders

Mental

Diary of the Dead

The Assassination File

Book of Blood

Residue

Residue

Jack's Back

Painkiller Jane

Effects

Supernova

Supernova

Dune: Part Three

Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables

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