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RARA-AVIS: Timothy Harris



On February 11th Etienne Borgers asked for biographical info about Timothy 
Harris.  This is taken from Robert A. Baker & Michael T. Nietzel's _Private 
Eyes: 101 Knights_. 
 
"Timothy Hyde Harris was born in LA on July 21, 1946 to Donald & Mary Harris.  
The family left LA when Harris was 6 months old, and he grew up in various 
cities across Europe & Africa.  (He read his first Chandler on a train trip in 
Switzerland)>  Educated at Cambridge where he wrote his first novel, the 
satiric _Kronski/McSmash_ (Doubleday, 1970) featuring McSmash the far-out 
detective for the Monterey Narcotics Squad.  Harris published under the name 
Hyde Harris in England.   
 
In addition to the 2 Kyds & _Kronski/McSmash_, Harris has novelized 3 
screenplays.  _American Gigolo_(Dell 1979) was based on a screenplay by Paul 
Schrader.  It is no worse than the movie which starred Richard Gere and Lauren 
Hutton.  _Steelyard Blues_ (Bantam, 1972) was taken from David Ward's 
screenplay and _Heat Wave_ (Dell, 1979), a great PI story without an official 
PI, is based on a screenplay by Herschel Weingrod.  Weingrod and Harris have 
collaborated on several original screenplays.  _Cheaper to Keep Her_, a 
romantic comedy starring Mac Davis as a PI, Bill Dekker, was released by 
American Cinema in 1980.  Their best-known effort was the screenplay for the 
Eddie Murphy-Dan Ackroyd comedy _Trading Places_ which has a wonderful minor 
role for a cheesey PI played by Paul Gleason. 
 
Harris married Mary Bess Walker in 1980.  He now lives in LA & is 
concentrating on film writing." 
 
Stephen 
 
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