Bob Harper (producer)

Bob Harper aka Robert Harper aka Robert E. Harper, Film Executive, Producer, Executive Producer

Bob Harper was born and raised in Washington D.C. and has spent his entire career in the entertainment business. He was at Kaleidoscope Films from 1980 to 1985, where he served as general manager. Bob has been at 20th Century Fox since 1986 in a wide range of executive positions. He began in the trailer department and moved on to creative advertising as well as production, serving as vice president in each department before becoming president of domestic marketing in 1989. He later served as a producer for Fox, developing and producing the 1993 comedy hit Rookie of the Year. Returning to the Fox executive fold in 1995, Bob became president of worldwide marketing until 1999, 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 he became 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 executive produced the Fox releases What’s Your Number?, In Time and the Summit/Fox release The Darkest Hour. Bob is currently located at Fox and is an executive producer on the TV show based on the best-selling novel Beat the Reaper, which is in development at HBO in association with New Regency, as well as a producer on several films in varying stages of development.

Education Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1977, Carnegie Mellon University.

Community Service and Board Memberships

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Governance Committee

UCLA Department of Neurosurgery, Advisory Board Member

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, member since 1989, serving on Executive Branch Committee