John Kent Harrison
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John Kent Harrison is a television producer, director and writer. He is mostly known for his work in the International miniseries format. Recent credits include The Water is Wide (2006), Pope John Paul II (2005), A Bear Named Winnie ( 2004), Helen of Troy (2003), and A Wrinkle in Time(2003). With a 34 share, his TV movie, What The Deaf Man Heard, has been the highest-rated stand alone 2-hour TV movie since 1991. In the summer of 1969 Harrison and John R.B. Tamblyn paddled a canoe from London, Ontario, Canada to New Orleans where they were given the keys to the city and Honorary Citizenship. In the summer of 1996, Harrison and Tamblyn were made Honorary Lt. Govenors of the State of Louisiana.
Harrison was educated at Columbia University and at Appleby College in Canada.
