Harry Thomason

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Harry, a native of Hampton, Arkansas, attended Southern Arkansas University and continued graduate studies in education at the University of Arkansas. A college scholarship athlete, Thomason was a football coach and art teacher in secondary schools for six years before he decided to pursue filmmaking as a career.

He has produced award winning television movies including A Shining Season and the mini-series The Blue and the Gray. He produced or directed several popular television series including The Fall Guy

In 1983 he married writer Linda Bloodworth and together they formed Mozark Productions. She created and wrote and he produced and directed television series such as Designing Women, Evening Shade, Hearts A'Fire, and many others.

Thomason has been nominated for numerous awards including the Emmy (Designing Women), the Directors Guild award (Designing Women), the Christopher Award (A Shining Season) and The People's Choice Award (The Blue and The Gray).

He was nominated for the Writer's Guild Best Documentary Screenplay for the critically acclaimed The Hunting of the President. He has also been awarded the National Women's Political Caucus, "Good Guys Award". In addition, he has been named as the Entertainment Publicists' Guild as Man of the Year.

Thomason was Strategic Director of the 1992 and 1996 Democratic Conventions. He and his wife Linda Bloodworth-Thomason were chairman of the 1993 Presidential Inauguration which he directed. It became the first Inauguration in the history of the United States to make a profit. That profit was used to help fund the 1997 Inaugural.

Thomason also produced and directed the Summit of Eight, a gathering of the top world leaders, in Denver Colorado. Harry is currently involved in a series Linda has created for HBO, Twelve Miles of Bad Road.