---
name: "Dave Harding"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dave-harding"
fi1m_id: "dave-harding"
imdb_id: "nm0362296"
tmdb_id: 229453
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-27T08:15:32.879978+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dave Harding

## Identity

Dave Harding

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dave-harding
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dave-harding
- **IMDb ID:** nm0362296
- **TMDB ID:** 229453
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362296/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/229453

Producer. Born in Chicagoland area.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2005–2010
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 85 (1), 2010s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362296/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/229453

## Biography

Dave Harding is a film and television producer and production executive. Originally from the Chicagoland area, he earned a B.S. in Radio/TV/Film and an M.S.J. from Northwestern University. He began his career as a congressional correspondent before moving into production, working with Bob Banner Associates on variety programming and television movies, and later joining Termite Art Productions and Creative Differences.

Harding has worked extensively with Werner Herzog on documentaries including *Grizzly Man* (2005), *Encounters at the End of the World* (2007), *Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (2010) and *Into the Abyss* (2011). Other credits include *Chasing Trane* (2017), *A Gray State* (2017), *Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia* (2013) and *What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?* (2023). He has received one Emmy win and two nominations.

*Sources: televisionacademy.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (2010), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/cave-of-forgotten-dreams.md)
- *Grizzly Man* (2005), Fi1m 85, Executive In Charge Of Production — [page](https://film.one/film/grizzly-man.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Starring Dick Van Dyke* (2025), Producer
- *Daytime Revolution* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback* (2023), Producer
- *What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?* (2023), Producer
- *The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's "American Pie"* (2022), Producer
- *Mixtape Trilogy: Stories of the Power of Music* (2022), Producer
- *Herb Alpert Is...* (2020), Producer
- *Apocalypse '45* (2020), Executive Producer
- *The Happy Days of Garry Marshall* (2020), Producer
- *Into the Cold Blue: Restoration and Reinvention* (2019), Producer
- *A Gray State* (2017), as Other · Executive In Charge Of Production
- *Chasing Trane* (2017), Producer, First Assistant Camera
- *Dick Cavett's Watergate* (2014), Producer
- *JFK: The Final Hours* (2013), Executive Producer
- *On Death Row* (2012), series, Executive Producer
- *Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (2010), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/cave-of-forgotten-dreams.md)
- *9/11: Science and Conspiracy* (2009), Co-Executive Producer
- *Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man* (2006), Executive In Charge Of Production
- *Grizzly Man* (2005), Executive In Charge Of Production — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/grizzly-man.md)
- *Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal* (2003), Supervising Producer
- *UFO Over Illinois* (2000), Supervising Producer
- *Murderous Intent* (1995), Co-Producer

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