---
name: "Robert A. Harris"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-a-harris"
fi1m_id: "robert-a-harris"
imdb_id: "nm0002643"
tmdb_id: 14368
wikidata_id: "Q3434385"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:44:31.102635+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."
---

# Robert A. Harris

## Identity

Robert A. Harris

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-a-harris
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-a-harris
- **IMDb ID:** nm0002643
- **TMDB ID:** 14368
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3434385
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Harris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3434385, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002643/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14368

Producer. Born 1 January 1945.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1945
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Harris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3434385, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002643/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14368

## Biography

Robert A. Harris is an American film historian, archivist and preservationist. He has worked on the restoration of numerous classic films, often in collaboration with James C. Katz, including *Lawrence of Arabia* (1962), *Vertigo* (1958), *Rear Window* (1954) and *My Fair Lady* (1964).

Harris produced the 1990 film *The Grifters* alongside Martin Scorsese and Jim Painten. He has also appeared as himself in documentaries such as *These Amazing Shadows* (2011). In 2010 he received the Nikola Tesla Award from the International Press Academy for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology. The Academy Film Archive holds the Robert A. Harris Collection of materials related to his restoration work.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Grifters* (1990), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-grifters.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *The Grifters* (1990), Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-grifters.md)

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