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[citation needed]. In the summer of 1996, Harrison and Tamblyn were made Honorary Lt. Governors of the State of Louisiana[citation needed].
Harrison was educated at Columbia University and at Appleby College in Canada.