Les Harris (producer)

Les Harris is a Canadian television producer and filmmaker.

For the British motorcycle specialist see Les Harris (businessman)

Harris co-founded Canamedia Productions with Jane Harris in 1979.[1] By the time of its acquisition by Distribution Access in 2010, the production company had built up a factually-based catalog of more than 1500 titles.[1]

Partial filmography
  • Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper (1981)[2]
Documentary about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.
Documentary about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.
  • Hostage in Iran (1986)
PBS Frontline documentary about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.[5][6]

References
  1. Benzine, Adam. "Distribution Access buys Canamedia." C21Media, December 7, 2010. Archived from the original. Accessed on November 5, 2017.
  2. Blau, Eleanor. "Television Week." The New York Times, May 17, 1986.
  3. "Canamedia continues 'caper'." Cinema Canada, No. 99, September 1983, p. 6. Full issue available.
  4. Lerner, Loren R. "Harris, Les." Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature, Vols. 1-7. University of Toronto Press, 1997, p. 1065. ISBN 0802029884. / ISBN 978-0802029881.
    "Les Harris of Canamedia Productions is completing his third documentary on the Canadian Embassy’s involvement in the Iranian Hostage crisis (released as 444 Days to Freedom, 1986)."
  5. "Film claims British threw out Iran hostages." The Vindicator [Youngstown, OH], January 20, 1986, p. 8. Archived from the original.
  6. Corry, John. "Hostage in Iran on Frontline Series." The New York Times, January 21, 1986. Archived from the original.
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