John Harrison began his career directing rock videos and working as 1st Asst. Director for famed horror director,George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead (1968)/Creepshow (1982)). Harrison wrote and directed multiple episodes of Romero's classic TV series,Tales from the Darkside (1983)m], before helming Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990), for Paramount Pictures, which won Harrison the Grand Prix du Festival at Avoriaz, France. Harrison co-wrote the animated feature,Dinosaur (2000), for Disney. He also wrote the adaptation of Clive Barker's fantasy novels, "Abarat", also for Disney. In the Fall of '06, Harrison reunited with mentor George Romero to produce Romero's film, Diary of the Dead (2007). His action suspense thriller, Blank Slate (2008), for producer Dean Devlin, which Harrison wrote and directed, aired as a twenty-episode micro-series on TNT in the Fall of 2008. Clive Barker's Book of Blood (2009), which he wrote and directed, was released in the Fall 2009. His 6-hour miniseries adaptation of Frank Herbert's monumental bestseller, Dune (2000), which he directed, was an Emmy Award-winning success in the U.S., then internationally, both in its broadcast premieres and subsequently in home video. Harrison's Children of Dune (2003), another 6-hour miniseries encompassing the next two novels of Frank Herbert's mythic adventure series which he wrote and co-produced, was also an Emmy winner for the Sci-Fi Channel.

Filmography

• 2026Dune: Part Three — Executive Producer
• 2024Dune: Part Two — Executive Producer
• 2021Dune — Executive Producer
• Creepshow — Director, Story, Teleplay, Writer
• Superstition — Director
• 2015Residue — Writer
• Residue — Executive Producer, Creator
• The Librarians — Director
• 2009Book of Blood — Director
• Mental — Director
• 2008Blank Slate — Thomas Hale, Writer, Director
• Leverage — Director
• 2007Diary of the Dead — Executive Producer
• 2005Painkiller Jane — Writer
• 2005Supernova — Director
• Supernova — Director
• Frank Herbert's Children of Dune — Writer, Creator
• 2000Dinosaur — Story, Screenplay
• Frank Herbert's Dune — Director, Producer, Writer, Creator
• 1996Book of Evil: Solid Tales From the Darkside — Director
• Kindred: The Embraced — Director
• Profiler — Director
• 1996The Assassination File — Director
• 1995Donor Unknown — Director, Teleplay
• Earth 2 — Writer, Director
• Nightmare Cafe — Director
• The Late Show
• 1990Memories of Murder — Screenplay
• 1990Tales from the Darkside — Director, Writer
• 1990Tales from the Darkside: The Movie — Director, Original Music Composer
• Tales from the Crypt — Director, Screenplay
• 1988Jack's Back — Chooch
• Monsters — Writer
• 1987Night Rose: Akhbar's Daughter — Director, Writer
• 1986Scary Tales: Night Elevator — Director, Teleplay, Music
• 1985Day of the Dead — Music
• Tales from the Darkside — Writer, Director, Story
• 1982Creepshow — Original Music Composer
• 1981Knightriders — Pellinore
• Simon & Simon
• 1979Effects — Lacey Bickel, Producer
• 1978Dawn of the Dead — Screwdriver Zombie
• 1973Ubu — Director
• 1973Ubu — Director
• Upstairs, Downstairs — Writer
• Blackmail — Director

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2023King on Screen — Self
• 2020Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables — Himself
• 2013The World's End: The Legacy of 'Day of the Dead' — Self
• 2007Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' — Self
• 2005After Effects: Memories of Pittsburgh Filmmaking — Self