Harvey Hart

Harvey Hart (March 19, 1928 – November 22, 1989) was a Canadian television and film director and a television producer.

Hart studied at the University of Toronto before being hired by the CBC in 1952. For them he created over 30 television productions, among them several episodes of an anthology series, ''Festival'', like ''Home of the Brave'' (1961) and ''The Luck of Ginger Coffey'' (1961), adaptations of a 1946 play and 1960 novel.

In 1963 he left the CBC and moved to the United States, where, in the following years, he directed episodes for 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 moved back 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. 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 splitting his time between film work in Canada and television work in Los Angeles throughout the 1980s. He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film for the mini-series ''East of Eden'' (1981) and a Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for the television crime-drama film ''Passion and Paradise'' (1989).

Harvey Hart died of a heart attack in 1989. Provided by Wikipedia