John Kent Harrison

John Kent Harrison is a television producer, director and writer. Harrison was educated at Columbia University and at Appleby College in Canada. Harrison is best known for his work in the international miniseries format. Recent credits include The Water is Wide (2006), Pope John Paul II (2005), A Bear Named Winnie (2004), Helen of Troy (2003), and A Wrinkle in Time (2003). With a 34 share, his TV movie, What The Deaf Man Heard, has been the highe... more

John Kent Harrison is a television producer, director and writer. Harrison was educated at Columbia University and at Appleby College in Canada. Harrison is best known for his work in the international miniseries format. Recent credits include The Water is Wide (2006), Pope John Paul II (2005), A Bear Named Winnie (2004), Helen of Troy (2003), and A Wrinkle in Time (2003). With a 34 share, his TV movie, What The Deaf Man Heard, has been the highest-rated stand-alone 2-hour TV movie since 1991. A film by him about the Holocaust resister Irena Sendler, The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, is to air on 19 April 2009 on the American CBS television network. The movie was filmed on location in Riga, Latvia. Sendler is played by the New Zealand actress Anna Paquin. less