Harvey Hart

Harvey Hart (born August 30, 1928 in Toronto, Ontario – died November 21, 1989 in Toronto) was a Canadian television director and producer.

Hart studied at the University of Toronto before being hired by the CBC in 1952. For them he created over 30 television productions, among them The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1959) and Home of the Brave (1960).

In 1963 he left the CBC and moved to the United States, where he worked on such TV series as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Star Trek.

He moved back to Toronto in 1970 where he directed several feature films, including Fortune and Men's Eyes, The Pyx, Shoot and Goldenrod, for which he won a Canadian Film Award for Best Director. In the mid 1970s Hart directed 4 episodes of Columbo, including A Deadly State of Mind (1975), Now You See Him (1976), Forgotten Lady (1975), and By Dawn's Early Light (1974). He continued splitting his time between film work in Canada and television work in Los Angeles throughout the 1980s. He received a Golden Globe for the mini-series East of Eden (1981) and a Gemini Award for the mini-series Passion and Paradise (1989). Harvey Hart died of a heart attack in 1989.