Nationality US Citizenship US | Occupation Film producer Name Bob Harper | |
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Full Name Robert Everett Harper Born March 24, 1955 (age 69) ( 1955-03-24 ) Washington, D.C. Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University | ||
Bob Harper (born March 24, 1955) is an American film producer. In a Hollywood career spanning 30 years, he has marketed over 400 films including Titanic, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Planet of the Apes, X-Men, the Star Wars trilogy and Home Alone, and collaborated with some of the most influential directors of the past twenty-five years, including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Tim Burton.
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Career
Robert Everett Harper was born and raised in Washington D.C. and has worked in the entertainment business for his whole career. He served as general manager at Kaleidoscope Films from 1980 to 1985, then joined 20th Century Fox in 1986 holding a range of executive positions. He began in the Fox trailer department and moved later to creative advertising, as well as production, serving as a vice president in each division before becoming president of domestic marketing in 1989. He later served as a producer for Fox, developing and producing the 1993 hit comedy Rookie of the Year. Returning to the Fox executive fold in 1995, Harper became president of the worldwide marketing division until 1998, then served as vice chairman of 20th Century Fox and executive vice president of parent company, Fox Filmed Entertainment, and later as vice chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment where he had global strategic, creative and managerial responsibilities for the film company.
In 2007, Harper was named chairman and chief executive officer of New Regency Productions (a Fox-based film and television production and distribution company) where he oversaw New Regency's film and television units until 2011. He then served as executive producer on the Fox releases What's Your Number?, In Time and the Summit/Fox release The Darkest Hour. Harper is currently located at Fox and is an executive producer on the TV show Beat the Reaper based on the best-selling novel, which is in development at HBO in association with New Regency, as well as working as a producer on several films in varying stages of development.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1977, Carnegie Mellon University.