---
name: "Harry Gittes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-gittes"
fi1m_id: "harry-gittes"
imdb_id: "nm0321228"
tmdb_id: 35509
wikidata_id: "Q110751035"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "6 May 1936"
died: "2 September 2017"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:47:33.041107+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."
---

# Harry Gittes

## Identity

Harry Gittes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-gittes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-gittes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0321228
- **TMDB ID:** 35509
- **Wikidata ID:** Q110751035
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Gittes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110751035, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321228/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35509

Producer. Born 6 May 1936 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Died 2 September 2017.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 6 May 1936, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- **Died:** 2 September 2017
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Gittes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110751035, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321228/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35509

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*About Schmidt*](https://film.one/film/about-schmidt.md) (77)

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## Biography

Harry Gittes (1936–2017) was an American film producer. He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and began his career in New York as an advertising copywriter and photographer before moving into film production.

Gittes collaborated frequently with Jack Nicholson, producing *Drive, He Said* (1971), *Goin' South* (1978) and *About Schmidt* (2002). He also produced *Harry and Walter Go to New York* (1976), *Little Nikita* (1988), *Breaking In* (1989), *The Girl Next Door* (2004) and served as executive producer on *Last Flag Flying* (2017). Nicholson's character in *Chinatown* (1974) was named after him.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, variety.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *About Schmidt* (2002), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/about-schmidt.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Last Flag Flying* (2017), Executive Producer
- *The Girl Next Door* (2004), Producer
- *About Schmidt* (2002), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/about-schmidt.md)
- *Breaking In* (1989), Producer
- *Little Nikita* (1988), Producer
- *Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann* (1982), Producer
- *Dangerous Company* (1982), Executive Producer
- *Goin' South* (1978), Producer
- *Harry and Walter Go to New York* (1976), Producer
- *Drive, He Said* (1971), as Announcer #2 · Co-Producer
- *Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert* (1969), Producer

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