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Harvey Crossland

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  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Producer
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Harvey Crossland is a director, writer and executive producer, known for Hudson & Rex (2020 - 2023) Murdoch Mysteries (2009 - 2021) and Ruby And The Well (2022 - 2023).

Harvey's work has crossed genres, from the dark edge of THE LISTENER to the romance of HALLMARK Christmas movies; from the period drama of MURDOCH MYSTERIES to the contemporary adventure of HUDSON & REX; from the award-winning Nat Geo martial arts series DEADLY ARTS, to the epic historical scope of FOR KING AND EMPIRE.

He's directed nominated and award-winning television series, documentaries, docudramas, television movies and a feature film. Shoots have taken Harvey across Canada, into the Arctic and around the world to Brazil, Thailand, Okinawa, South Africa, Japan, India, France, England, United States, Holland, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Belgium, Turkey, Cuba, Hong Kong, Argentina, Russia, Estonia and Ukraine. His work has been featured on CBC, CTV, CITY, Hallmark, A&E, PBS, BBC, ALIBI, W, ITV, Vision, Biography, TLC, Family Channel, Noggin, Disney, Nickelodeon, Discovery Health, Fox Kids, Fox U.S., Fox Int'l, YTV, Canal Plus, Canal J, ZDF, France 3, ABC Australia, National Geographic, History, Discovery and many more networks.

He holds dual Canadian and Irish citizenship and is able to travel and work with both a Canadian and an EU passport.

Harvey began his film and television career in Vancouver, Canada where he co-founded two production companies - Hy Perspectives Media Group and Siren Films. His production of the feature docudrama CLOSE TO HOME, about the continuum of sexual abuse, runaways and juvenile prostitution, became a nationally acclaimed MOW. His documentary SOMEWHERE BETWEEN helped end legislative discrimination of Indigenous women under The Indian Act.
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    • Awards
      • 3 nominations total

    Known for

    The Burning Season
    6.8
    • Director
    • 1993
    Radio Free Roscoe (2003)
    Radio Free Roscoe
    7.6
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 2003
    Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science (1997)
    Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science
    8.2
    TV Series
    • Director
    The Blobheads (2003)
    The Blobheads
    5.7
    TV Series
    • Director

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    • Diesel vom Burgimwald and John Reardon in Hudson & Rex (2019)
      Hudson & Rex
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2020–2025
    • Ruby and the Well (2022)
      Ruby and the Well
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2022–2024
    • Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Helene Joy, Jonny Harris, and Georgina Reilly in Murdoch Mysteries (2008)
      Murdoch Mysteries
      8.2
      TV Series
      • excerpts directed by
      • excerpt directed by
      • 2009–2021
    • Lauren Lee Smith, Sharron Matthews, Rebecca Liddiard, and Chantel Riley in Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017)
      Frankie Drake Mysteries
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Joseph Cannata, Harmon Walsh, and Sara Mitich in Christmas Wedding Runaway (2019)
      Christmas Wedding Runaway
      5.7
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2019
    • We Are Canada
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Terrific Trucks (2016)
      Terrific Trucks
      6.3
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2016
    • Lindy Booth, Robin Dunne, and Micah Kalisch in Sound of Christmas (2016)
      Sound of Christmas
      6.5
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2016
    • Robin Dunne and Brooke Nevin in On the Twelfth Day of Christmas (2015)
      On the Twelfth Day of Christmas
      6.8
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2015
    • Craig Olejnik and Lauren Lee Smith in The Listener (2009)
      The Listener
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2013–2014
    • Mark Lutz, Tricia Helfer, Cristina Rosato, and J.T. Hodges in Finding Christmas (2013)
      Finding Christmas
      6.4
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2013
    • The Chef's Domain (2008)
      The Chef's Domain
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2013
    • Robert Nolan in Outlaw Bikers (2007)
      Outlaw Bikers
      6.6
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2008–2011
    • Greatest Tank Battles (2010)
      Greatest Tank Battles
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2011
    • Ghostly Encounters (2005)
      Ghostly Encounters
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2005–2011

    Second Unit or Assistant Director



    • Ruby and the Well (2022)
      Ruby and the Well
      7.9
      TV Series
      • excerpts directed by
      • 2022
    • Recipe to Riches (2011)
      Recipe to Riches
      5.6
      TV Series
      • bio-pack director
      • 2011
    • Greatest Tank Battles (2010)
      Greatest Tank Battles
      7.5
      TV Series
      • field director
      • 2011
    • External Affairs (1999)
      External Affairs
      7.2
      • second unit director
      • 1999
    • Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1999)
      Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
      4.3
      • second unit director
      • 1999

    Producer



    • Ruby and the Well (2022)
      Ruby and the Well
      7.9
      TV Series
      • co-executive producer
      • 2022
    • Urban Angels of Medicine
      TV Series
      • field producer
      • 1999

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    • Born
      • 1950
      • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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