Background
Harris, Harry H. was born on September 8, 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Harry Howard Senior and Jennie Harris.
Harris, Harry H. was born on September 8, 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Harry Howard Senior and Jennie Harris.
Student, University of California at Los Angeles, 1940-1941.
Harris moved to Los Angeles in 1937 and got a mailroom job at Columbia Studios. After attending University of California, Los Angeles, he became an apprentice sound cutter, assistant sound effects editor, and then an assistant film editor at Columbia Pictures. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces at the start of World World War II, and as part of the First Motion Picture Unit, reported to Hal Roach Studios in Culver City.
His supervisor there was Ronald Reagan, who hired him as sound effects editor for training and combat films.
At the end of World World War II, Harris became an assistant film editor and then an editor for Desilu, the studio of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Balliol Over the next five decades, he directed hundreds to television episodes, with significant contributions to Gunsmoke, Eight is Enough, The Waltons, and Falcon Crest.
2nd Lieutenant United States Air Force, 1944. Member Directors Guild American, Motion Picture Film Editors (life).
Married Patricia A. Pulici, August 18, 1939. Children: Susanne and Joanne.