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Jed Harris (born Jacob Hirsch Horowitz; February 25, 1900 – November 15, 1979) was an Austrian-born American theatrical producer and director. His many successful Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s include Broadway (1926), Coquette (1927), The Royal Family (1927), The Front Page (1928), Uncle Vanya (1930), The Green Bay Tree (1933 ...
Jed Harris (1900-1979) was an Austrian-born American producer and writer who worked on Broadway and Hollywood. He was known for His Girl Friday, Night People and Operation Mad Ball, and was nominated for an Oscar for The Light Touch.
Jed Harris was born on 25 February 1900 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a producer and writer, known for His Girl Friday (1939), Night People (1954) and Operation Mad Ball (1957). He was previously married to Bebe Allen, Louise Platt and Anita Green.
Nov 16, 1979 · Jed Harris, the brash Yale dropout who produced and directed some of the most notable Broadway plays of the 1920's and 30's and had a reputation as a theater genius before his...
Jed Harris was an American theatrical producer and director. He directed some of the most successful productions on the Broadway stage in the 1920s and 1930s, including Broadway and The Royal Family, and the original Broadway productions of The Heiress and The Crucible.
HARRIS, JED ( Jacob Horowitz ; 1900–1979), U.S. theatrical producer. Born in Vienna, Harris was taken to the U.S. as a child. His first big success, Broadway (1926), had a three-year run.
While the play sprung completely from Wilder’s creative imagination and aesthetic beliefs, “Our Town’s” creation was aided immeasurably by the catalytic involvement of Jed Harris, a hotshot Broadway producer and director of the era.
