James B. Harris

Director, Producer

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Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

August 03, 1928

Biography

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Veteran Hollywood industry figure who has served triple duty as a producer, director, and screenwriter. Harris' most notable contribution to American cinema was producing several seminal early films directed by Stanley Kubrick. The Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation turned out such provocative features as "The Killing" (1956), "Paths of Glory" (1957), and "Lolita" (1962). Harris and Kub...

Filmography

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Boiling Point (1993)

Fast-Walking (1982)

Some Call It Loving (1973)

Sleeping Beauty (1973)

The Bedford Incident (1965)

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Fast-Walking (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Summer In The Hole

Fast-Walking (1982) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Buying You Out

Biography

Veteran Hollywood industry figure who has served triple duty as a producer, director, and screenwriter. Harris' most notable contribution to American cinema was producing several seminal early films directed by Stanley Kubrick. The Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation turned out such provocative features as "The Killing" (1956), "Paths of Glory" (1957), and "Lolita" (1962).

Harris and Kubrick went their separate ways after "Lolita" with the producer venturing on to form James B. Harris Productions in 1963. As a producer-director, Harris's subsequent feature credits were relatively sparse: "The Bedford Incident" (1965), a Cold War naval drama starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier; "Some Call It Loving" (1973), which marked his screenwriting debut, an uneven modern retelling of "Sleeping Beauty" set in southern California starring Zalman King, Tisa Farrow, and Richard Pryor; "Fast Walking" (1982), a prison drama starring James Woods; and "Cop" (1988), which he scripted, also starring Woods. He also produced the Don Siegel-directed Charles Bronson vehicle, "Telefon" (1977).

Harris returned to directing and writing with "Boiling Point" (1993), a dark cop drama starring Wesley Snipes, Lolita Davidovich, and Dennis Hopper. This was a surprisingly old-fashioned crime story featuring tough-guy dialogue and morally ambiguous characters.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Boiling Point (1993)

Fast-Walking (1982)

Some Call It Loving (1973)

Sleeping Beauty (1973)

The Bedford Incident (1965)

Cast (Feature Film)

The Christian Licorice Store (1971)

Writer (Feature Film)

Boiling Point (1993)

Some Call It Loving (1973)

Producer (Feature Film)

The Black Dahlia (2006)

Executive Producer

Fast-Walking (1982)

Some Call It Loving (1973)

The Bedford Incident (1965)

Paths of Glory (1958)

The Killing (1956)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

The Bedford Incident (1965)

Cast (Special)

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

Life Events

1947

Worked in US film export business

1948

Worked for Realart Pictures

1949

Formed Flamingo Films, a TV distribution company, with high school friend David Wolper

1953

Produced and directed "TV's Baseball Hall of Fame"

1955

Formed a partnership with director Stanley Kubrick, Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation

1963

Formed James B. Harris Prods. Inc.

1965

Feature directorial debut (also produced), "The Bedford Incident"

1973

First screenplay credit (also produced and directed), "Some Call It Loving"

Videos

Fast-Walking (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Summer In The Hole James Woods as the usually-intoxicated Montana prison guard title character is getting chewed out by his boss (M. Emmet Walsh) for running late, with nasty language, as daily events proceed, with Tim McIntire as trustee Wasco, when an inmate takes a fall, in writer-director James B. Harris’ Fast-Walking, 1982.

Fast-Walking (1982) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Buying You Out Any encounter between these two notorious characters off camera might have been equally interesting, asTim McIntire as Montana inmate Wasco informs Timothy Carey, in his only scene, as Bullet, that he’s taking over his prison black market operations, in writer-director James B. Harris’ Fast-Walking, 1982, starring James Woods.

Killing, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) He Was Totally Disinterested Following credits at the Bay Meadows track in San Mateo, California, director Stanley Kubrick with Art Gilmore’s narration, written by Jim Thompson from the Lionel White novel, introducing conspirators Jay C. Flippen, Joe Sawyer the barkeep, Elisha Cook at the window, in The Killing, 1956.

Killing, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) These Two Other Guys Ex-con Johnny (Sterling Hayden) briefing his cohorts, Joe Sawyer as Mike, Ted de Corsia as cop Randy, Jay C. Flippen as Marvin and Elisha Cook as racetrack employee George, whose wife Sherry (Marie Windsor) turns out to be listening-in, in Stanley Kubrick’s heist drama The Killing, 1956.

Killing, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Meatball With Gravy Sherry (Marie Windsor), having just heard from her milquetoast husband about the plan to rob the racetrack, visits Val (Vince Edwards) whom we learn is her lover, wondering after a fade to black how they might profit, in Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing, 1956, starring Sterling Hayden.

Killing, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Shooting Horses Out Of Season Director Stanley Kubrick introduces the notorious character actor and occasional filmmaker Timothy Carey (who would co-star in Kubrick’s Paths Of Glory, 1962) as gunman Nikki, interviewed by Sterling Hayden as ex-con Johnny, setting up the racetrack robbery in The Killing, 1956.

Lolita (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Other Young Marrieds Charlotte (Shelley Winters) takes a call from her teenage daughter (the title character) during an awkward post-honeymoon snuggle with her irritated lodger-turned-husband, Professor Humbert (James Mason) in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, 1962.

Lolita (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Did I Do That? College town busybody Charlotte (Shelley Winters) can't resist approaching the minor celebrity at the dance, TV writer Clare Quilty (Peter Sellers), who can't recall meeting her, in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, 1962.

Lolita (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Roman Ping Pong Professor Humbert (James Mason) finds writer Quilty (Peter Sellers) in his unkempt rented mansion in what amounts to the prologue to Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, 1962, from the Vladimir Nabokov novel.

Lolita (1962) -- (Movie Clip) What Was The Decisive Factor? Professor Humbert (James Mason) is considering an offer of lodging from Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters) when he meets her daughter (Sue Lyon, title character) in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, 1962, from the Vladimir Nabokov novel.

Lolita (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Two Normal Guys Diabolical Quilty (Peter Sellers) obscures his face and poses as a cop, contriving a chance encounter with Humbert (James Mason), whom we know, some years later, will shoot him, in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, 1962, from Vladimir Nabokov's novel and screenplay.

Lolita (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Acute Observation Lodger professor Humbert (James Mason) is getting academic, masking his lust for Lolita (Sue Lyon), until she's summoned by her mom Charlotte (Shelley Winters), who soon delivers unwelcome news in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, 1962.

Lolita - (Original Trailer) An aging intellectual becomes obsessed with a young teenage girl when he becomes a boarder in her mother's house in Lolita (1962).

Bedford Incident, The - (Original Trailer) A U.S. destroyer has a nuclear showdown with a Russian submarine in The Bedford Incident (1965) starring Sidney Poitier.

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