Robert Harmon is an American film

Film director

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 and television director

Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

. He is best known for the 1986 horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 classic The Hitcher, starring Rutger Hauer, as well as for films like They and Nowhere to Run.

His television work is distinguished by the series of made-for-TV movies featuring fictional Paradise (Mass.) Police Chief Jesse Stone

Jesse Stone novels

Jesse Stone is the lead character in a series of detective novels initially written by Robert B. Parker. They were among his last works, and the first series in which the novelist used the third-person narrative...

, which began with 2005's Stone Cold, starring Tom Selleck

Tom Selleck

Thomas William "Tom" Selleck is an American actor, and film producer. He is best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the 1980s television show Magnum, P.I.. He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on the Robert B....

, as well as the Emmy-nominated biopics Ike: Countdown to D-Day

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

Ike: Countdown to D-Day is a 2004 American television film originally aired on the American television channel A&E and was directed by Robert Harmon and written by Lionel Chetwynd....

 (also starring Selleck) and Gotti, starring Armand Assante

Armand Assante

-Personal life:Assante was born in New York City and raised in Cornwall, New York, the son of Katherine , a music teacher and poet, and Armand Anthony Assante, Sr., a painter and artist. His father was Italian and his mother was Irish, and was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic family...

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Awards and nominations

Harmon has been nominated twice for a Directors Guild of America Award in 1997 & 2004.

Selected credits

• China Lake
  China Lake (film)
  China Lake is a 1983 psychological thriller starring Charles Napier as a deranged police officer, who rides around on a motorbike "targeting" people that have offended him in some way while vacationing near the film's titular location of China Lake....
  
   (1983)
• The Hitcher (1986)
• Eyes of an Angel
  Eyes of an Angel (film)
  Eyes of an Angel is a 1991 drama starring John Travolta and directed by Robert Harmon. It was released in France, Sweden, and on TV in the U.S. as The Tender. It was released straight to video in 1994 under its proper title to coincide with Travolta's bigger name release, Pulp Fiction. According...
  
   (1991)
• Nowhere to Run (1993)
• Gotti: Rise and Fall of a Mafia Don (1996) (TV)
• The Crossing (2000) (TV)
• Level 9
  Level 9 (TV series)
  Level 9 is an American television program broadcast on UPN, first aired in 2000. The plot revolved around a secret agency within the government, staffed by government agents, tech-savvy geeks, and former criminal hackers, which is tasked with solving or preventing cyber crimes.Thirteen episodes...
  
   (2000) TV series (unknown episodes)
• They (2002)
• Highwaymen
  Highwaymen (film)
  Highwaymen is a 2004 action-thriller filmed in Canada.It was directed by Robert Harmon, and stars Jim Caviezel and Rhona Mitra, and features Frankie Faison and Colm Feore...
  
   (2003)
• Ike: Countdown to D-Day
  Ike: Countdown to D-Day
  Ike: Countdown to D-Day is a 2004 American television film originally aired on the American television channel A&E and was directed by Robert Harmon and written by Lionel Chetwynd....
  
   (2004) (TV)
• Stone Cold (2005) (TV)
• Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006) (TV)
• Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006) (TV)
• Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007) (TV)
• Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2009) (TV)
• Jesse Stone: No Remorse (filming in 2009)

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