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 19522 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 Rileys 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 Mens 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 Dawns 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 miniseries East of Eden 1981 and a Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or MiniSeries for the television crimedrama film Passion and Paradise 1989