Robert A. Harris (born 1945) is an American
film historian, archivist, and
film preservationist.
Life
Robert A. Harris was born in 1945.
Harris is often working with
James C. Katz and has restored such films as ''
Lawrence of Arabia'', ''
Vertigo'', ''Rear Window'', and ''
My Fair Lady
''My Fair Lady'' is a musical theatre, musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play ''Pygmalion (play), Pygmalion'' and on the Pygmalion (1938 film), 1938 film ...
''.
He was also a producer of two films: ''
The Grifters'' (1990) and ''Space Avenger'' (1990).
Restorations
* ''
Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962), restored 1989
* ''
Spartacus
Spartacus (; ) was a Thracians, Thracian gladiator (Thraex) who was one of the Slavery in ancient Rome, escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major Slave rebellion, slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
Historical accounts o ...
'' (1960), restored 1991
* ''
My Fair Lady
''My Fair Lady'' is a musical theatre, musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play ''Pygmalion (play), Pygmalion'' and on the Pygmalion (1938 film), 1938 film ...
'' (1964), restored 1994
* ''
Vertigo'' (1958), restored 1996
* ''
Rear Window
''Rear Window'' is a 1954 American mystery film, mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "After-Dinner Story, It Had to Be Murder". Originally released ...
'' (1954), restored 2000
* ''
Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot'' (1956), restored 2004
* ''
The Godfather'' (1972), restored 2008
* ''
The Godfather Part II
''The Godfather Part II'' is a 1974 American epic film, epic crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, loosely based on the 1969 novel ''The Godfather (novel), The Godfather'' by Mario Puzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with Cop ...
'' (1974), restored 2008
* ''
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' (1963), restored 2013
* ''
Triumph of the Will'' (1935), restored 2015
Published works
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Awards and legacy
Harris and James C. Katz received the
King Vidor Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2000
San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.
In 2010, Harris was honored by the
International Press Academy with its Nikola Tesla Award for Visionary Achievement in Filmmaking Technology.
The
Academy Film Archive of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of adva ...
is home to the Robert A. Harris Collection, which consists of film, video tape, and audio material related to Harris' restoration work; it includes over 1,100 items.
References
External links
*
Yellow Layer Failure, Vinegar Syndrome and Miscellaneous Musings: Harris' column at The Digital Bits (2002–2009)Note, this is a site archive, and its hyperlinks have to be manually modified to allow viewing.
American film producers
1945 births
Living people
American film historians
Place of birth missing (living people)
American male non-fiction writers
Film preservation
American archivists
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