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name: "Harry Connick Jr."
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-connick-jr"
fi1m_id: "harry-connick-jr"
imdb_id: "nm0001065"
tmdb_id: 18688
wikidata_id: "Q313755"
roles: ["Musician"]
born: "11 September 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:25:34.263760+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."
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# Harry Connick Jr.

## Identity

Harry Connick Jr.

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-connick-jr
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-connick-jr
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001065
- **TMDB ID:** 18688
- **Wikidata ID:** Q313755
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Connick_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313755, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001065/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18688

Musician. Born 11 September 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Musician
- **Born:** 11 September 1967, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- **Active:** 1989–1999
- **Also known as:** Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr., هری کانیک جونیور
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 acting, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 84 (1), 1990s 82 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Connick_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313755, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001065/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18688

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Iron Giant*](https://film.one/film/the-iron-giant.md) (88)

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## Fi1m on Harry Connick Jr.

> Harry Connick Jr.'s relaxed delivery makes warmth sound unforced, particularly in *The Iron Giant*. We rate him as an actor of useful, unshowy charm, and *Copycat* is a reminder that he can make us uncomfortable too.

Listen to Dean McCoppin in *The Iron Giant* (1999): Harry Connick Jr. makes the beatnik junkman sound easy company. His delivery is warm and conversational, with little sense of a performer asking us to notice him. That is where we find him most persuasive as an actor. For someone also established as a singer and pianist, he is notably willing to keep the delivery small. We warmed to Dean because Connick's unforced delivery made his friendliness convincing.

His screen work has not always asked for reassurance. After his acting debut in *Memphis Belle* (1990), *Copycat* (1995) cast him as serial killer Daryll Lee Cullum, opposite Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter. The intensity of that supporting performance is a useful corrective to the idea that he can only be agreeable. *Hope Floats* (1998), alongside Sandra Bullock, then gave him his first major romantic lead. The shift makes sense: his relaxed manner is an obvious asset when affection is the job.

Brad Bird puts that ease to particularly good use in *The Iron Giant*. The boy's friendship with the robot is funny and tender, with enough cause for worry to make the affection matter. Connick's natural delivery suits a film that takes its young audience seriously; he does not need to insist that Dean is someone worth liking. The adults are sometimes too neatly drawn, and an affable voice cannot entirely remove that limitation. Even so, we would start with this supporting part rather than assume that the romantic leads tell us everything worth knowing about him.

Warmth is not a solution to every part. His work in *Basic* (2003) is solid without being especially memorable, while family material such as *Dolphin Tale* (2011) makes more comfortable use of his endearing presence. The risk in the gentler material is that being likeable becomes the whole job. We would welcome another part that asks him to be as unpleasant as he was in *Copycat*.

## Biography

Harry Connick Jr. is an American actor, singer, pianist and composer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he studied at Hunter College and the Manhattan School of Music before releasing his first album at nineteen.

His film acting debut came in *Memphis Belle* (1990). He later appeared in *Copycat* (1995), *Independence Day* (1996), *Hope Floats* (1998) and voiced Dean McCoppin in the animated film *The Iron Giant* (1999). On television he played Leo Markus in *Will & Grace* from 2002 to 2006.

Connick has received Grammy and Emmy awards for his work in music and television.

*Sources: harryconnickjr.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (2)

- *The Iron Giant* (1999), Fi1m 88, as Dean McCoppin (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-iron-giant.md)
- *Independence Day* (1996), Fi1m 75, as Capt. Jimmy Wilder — [page](https://film.one/film/independence-day.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *When Harry Met Sally...* (1989), Fi1m 84, Musician, Music Arranger, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/when-harry-met-sally.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *Find Me Falling* (2024), as John Allman
- *Annie Live!* (2021), as Oliver 'Daddy' Warbucks
- *Fear of Rain* (2021), as John Burroughs
- *Will & Grace* (2017), series, as Leo Markus
- *Kevin Can Wait* (2016), series, as Harry Connick Jr.
- *Dolphin Tale 2* (2014), as Dr. Clay Haskett
- *Angels Sing* (2013), as Michael Walker
- *Dolphin Tale* (2011), as Dr. Clay Haskett
- *New in Town* (2009), as Ted Mitchell
- *Living Proof* (2008), as Dr. Dennis Slamon
- *P.S. I Love You* (2007), as Daniel
- *Bug* (2007), as Jerry Goss
- *The Happy Elf* (2005), as Lil' Farley
- *Mickey* (2004), as Tripp Spence / Glen Ryan
- *Basic* (2003), as Dr. Pete Vilmer
- *Life Without Dick* (2002), as Daniel Gallagher
- *The Simian Line* (2001), as Rick
- *Pistol Pete: The Life and Times of Pete Maravich* (2001), as Narrator
- *South Pacific* (2001), as Lt. Joseph Cable
- *My Dog Skip* (2000), as Narrator
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as David Haden
- *Wayward Son* (1999), as Jesse Banks Rhodes
- *The Iron Giant* (1999), as Dean McCoppin (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-iron-giant.md)
- *Will & Grace* (1998), series, as Leo Markus
- *Hope Floats* (1998), as Justin Matisse
- *Excess Baggage* (1997), as Greg
- *Rock-A-Big Baby* (1997), as Big Baby
- *Independence Day* (1996), as Capt. Jimmy Wilder — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/independence-day.md)
- *Copycat* (1995), as Daryll Lee Cullum
- *Little Man Tate* (1991), as Eddie
- *Memphis Belle* (1990), as Clay Busby
- *When Harry Met Sally...* (1989), as Songs · Music Arranger, Musician — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/when-harry-met-sally.md)
- *Cheers* (1982), series, as Russell Boyd — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/cheers.md)

## Gallery

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## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- Theatre World Award 2006: Theatre World Award (won)
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical 2006: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Original Score 2002: Tony Award for Best Original Score (nominated), for *Thou Shalt Not*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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