James B. Harris

James B. Harris (born August 3, 1928) is an American filmmaker best known for his collaborations with Stanley Kubrick. Born in Manhattan, Harris studied music at the Juilliard School for a year before he dropped out. He later worked for his father's insurance firm. In 1949, Harris co-founded Flamingo Films with David L. Wolper and Sy Weintraub, which acquired the television licensing rights of shorts and documentaries. He was later drafted into the United States Army Signal Corps (USASC) where he met Alexander Singer. While they filmed a detective short film, Singer introduced Harris to Stanley Kubrick, then a fledging young filmmaker. In 1955, Harris and Kubrick co-founded their namesake production company, whereby Harris produced The Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), and Lolita (1962). Harris made his directorial debut with the Cold War thriller The Bedford Incident (1965). He also directed the actor James Woods in two films: the prison-guard drama Fast-Walking (1982) and the thriller Cop (1988), based on a James Ellroy novel, which Woods co-produced. Harris also directed the 1993 thriller Boiling Point.