Bob L. Harris, a member of the famed Ray Charles Singers choral group and the father of four-time Oscar-nominated actor Ed Harris, died Friday at his home in Evanston, Ill., after an extended illness. He was 91. In 1985, while working in the bookstore at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bob Harris sent Jeffrey Potter’s To a Violent Grave, a biography of Jackson Pollock, to his son and suggested he make a film about the painter. "Maybe there's a picture in it," he said in a note. More than a decade later, Ed directed and received an
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- 2/16/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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