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Robert Harmon

Highest Rated: 64% The Hitcher (1986)

Lowest Rated: 13% Highwaymen (2004)

Birthday: Not Available

Birthplace: Not Available

Robert Harmon worked his way up the ladder in Hollywood, starting out as a still photographer, and eventually working as a second unit director before making his feature directorial debut with the controversial thriller, "The Hitcher." Written by Eric Red, the film stars C. Thomas Howell as a young man on a road trip who encounters a disturbingly calm serial killer (Rutger Hauer). The film was a cult hit, but its brutality earned it the condemnation of several prominent critics, including Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. Despite his evident talent, Harmon never had quite that level of success in feature films again. He directed "Eyes of an Angel," starring John Travolta as a man fleeing mobsters with his young daughter, and the modest hit Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle "Nowhere to Run." He directed some television movies, and two episodes of "Homicide: Life on the Street," before returning to cinemas with the horror flick "They," about a grad student whose childhood nightmares seem to be coming to life, and "Highwaymen," a gritty revenge drama that took him back to the existential road-bound thrills of his debut. Neither of those films did particularly well at the box office, and Harmon returned to television. In 2004, he directed Tom Selleck as Dwight Eisenhower in "Ike: Countdown to D-Day," and he has since done several made-for-television movies starring Selleck as Robert B. Parker's alcoholic small town police chief, Jesse Stone. He also directed Selleck on several episodes of the police family drama series "Blue Bloods."

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Highest rated movies

64% 74% The Hitcher
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60% 83% Gotti
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38% 24% Wes Craven Presents: They
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36% 33% Nowhere to Run Watchlist
13% 38% Highwaymen
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68% Jesse Stone: Sea Change
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56% Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
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59% Jesse Stone: No Remorse
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60% The Crossing
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55% Eyes of an Angel
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet 56% Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise Director - 2015
No Score Yet 56% Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt Director,
Producer
- 2012
No Score Yet 78% November Christmas Director - 2010
No Score Yet 59% Jesse Stone: No Remorse Director,
Co-Producer
- 2010
No Score Yet 60% Jesse Stone: Thin Ice Director - 2009
No Score Yet 68% Jesse Stone: Sea Change Director - 2007
No Score Yet 66% Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise Director - 2006
No Score Yet 67% Jesse Stone: Night Passage Director - 2006
No Score Yet 67% Stone Cold Director - 2005
No Score Yet 71% Ike: Countdown to D-Day Director - 2004
13% 38% Highwaymen Director $367.0K 2004
38% 24% Wes Craven Presents: They Director $12.7M 2002
No Score Yet 60% The Crossing Director - 2000
60% 83% Gotti Director - 1996
No Score Yet 55% Eyes of an Angel Director - 1994
36% 33% Nowhere to Run Director $21.9M 1993
64% 74% The Hitcher Director $2.1M 1986

TV

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No Score Yet 81% Blue Bloods Director 2011-2021 2024
45% No Score Yet Level 9 Director 2000