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Harry Winer Biography

Birth Name:Harry Stuart Winer

Birth Place:Detroit, Michigan, United States

Profession Director, Producer, Writer, Camera department

Fast Facts

  • Graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in History and earned his master's in cinema from the University of Southern California
  • Directed his first film, "There Is a Season," in 1973, and later wrote and directed the documentary "The Legend of Big Foot" in 1976
  • Best known as the director of "Space Camp" and "House Arrest․"
  • Head of the direction track of the Motion Picture and Television department at the Academy of Art in San Francisco
  • President of the production company Smash Media since 2004

Awards

  • 2002OFTA Television Award-Best Direction in a Drama Series: nominated