---
name: "Timothy Harris"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/timothy-harris"
fi1m_id: "timothy-harris"
imdb_id: "nm0365390"
tmdb_id: 14711
wikidata_id: "Q7807241"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 July 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T21:15:59.116426+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."
---

# Timothy Harris

## Identity

Timothy Harris

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/timothy-harris
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** timothy-harris
- **IMDb ID:** nm0365390
- **TMDB ID:** 14711
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7807241
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Harris_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7807241, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365390/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14711

Writer. Born 21 July 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 July 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 1983–1996
- **Also known as:** Timothy Hyde Harris
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 3 writing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Herschel Weingrod](https://film.one/person/herschel-weingrod.md), [Ivan Reitman](https://film.one/person/ivan-reitman.md), [Arnold Schwarzenegger](https://film.one/person/arnold-schwarzenegger.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 72 (2), 1990s 68 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 59 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $509m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Harris_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7807241, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365390/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14711

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Trading Places*](https://film.one/film/trading-places.md) (80)
- **Apple TV:** [*Kindergarten Cop*](https://film.one/film/kindergarten-cop.md) (65)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Timothy Harris, also credited as Timothy Hyde Harris, is an American screenwriter, author and producer. Born on 21 July 1946 in Los Angeles, California, he began publishing fiction in the late 1960s before moving into film in the early 1980s.

He collaborated extensively with Herschel Weingrod on screenplays including *Trading Places* (1983), *Brewster's Millions* (1985), *Twins* (1988), *Kindergarten Cop* (1990) and *Space Jam* (1996). The pair also produced Joel Schumacher's *Falling Down* (1993). Harris later wrote the screenplay for *Astro Boy* (2009). He received a BAFTA nomination for Best Original Screenplay for *Trading Places*.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

### Wrote (3) — the average rests on these

- *Kindergarten Cop* (1990), Fi1m 65, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/kindergarten-cop.md)
- *Twins* (1988), Fi1m 64, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/twins.md)
- *Trading Places* (1983), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/trading-places.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Falling Down* (1993), Fi1m 71, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/falling-down.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Space Jam: A New Legacy* (2021), Original Film Writer
- *Astro Boy* (2009), Screenplay
- *Space Jam* (1996), Writer
- *Falling Down* (1993), Producer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/falling-down.md)
- *Pure Luck* (1991), Writer
- *Kindergarten Cop* (1990), Screenplay — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/kindergarten-cop.md)
- *Twins* (1988), Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/twins.md)
- *My Stepmother Is an Alien* (1988), Writer
- *Street of Dreams* (1988), Writer
- *Brewster's Millions* (1985), Screenplay
- *Trading Places* (1983), Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/trading-places.md)
- *Cheaper to Keep Her* (1981), Writer

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