ROBERT HALMI, JR. (Executive Producer) - Emmy® Award winner Robert Halmi, Jr. currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Hallmark Entertainment Holdings, Inc., a fully-owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, Inc. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Crown Media Holdings, Inc. Halmi's career as a film producer began with “Wilson's Reward,” which garnered numerous awards, including a gold medal at the Houston Film Festival. He has produced more than 100 movies and miniseries for television, such as “Dreamkeeper,” “Dinotopia,” “Arabian Nights,” “The 10th Kingdom,” “Cleopatra,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “The Baby Dance,” “Mr. & Mrs. Bridge” and “Lonesome Dove,” which earned seven Emmy® Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries. Recent Halmi, Jr. “event” productions include “King Solomon’s Mines,” “La Femme Musketeer,” “Frankenstein,” “Frederick Forsyth’s Icon,” “Supernova” and “Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island” (all for the Hallmark Channel). Halmi, Jr. was also an executive producer on Hallmark Channel’s highest-rated original movie ever, “Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus” -- which aired in December 2004 and was the prequel to “Meet the Santas.”
In 1994, Robert Halmi, Jr. became President and CEO of Hallmark Entertainment, Inc. (HEI), the successor of RHI. Since this time HEI has remained the largest supplier of movies and miniseries in the television industry. Under Halmi, Jr.’s guidance, HEI has produced over 1,000 hours of television programming. These shows have received 419 Emmy® nominations and won 99 Emmy® Awards. HEI has received more Emmy® nominations for television movies than any other production company in the history of television.
In 1995, Halmi, Jr. formed Crown Media Holdings, Inc., which currently operates and distributes the Hallmark Channel in the U.S. and more than 122 additional countries in 25 languages. Crown Media is a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq® stock exchange.
Halmi, Jr. is also responsible for the creation and growth of the HEI film library. This valuable film library consists of over 4,000 hours of family programming.
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LARRY LEVINSON (Executive Producer) – Larry Levinson has extensive credits as an executive producer, including the telefilm "Johnson County War" and blockbuster miniseries "Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo" and "Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk." His Hallmark Channel productions include "The Last Cowboy," “Straight From the Heart,” “Love Comes Softly,” “Audrey’s Rain,” "The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay,”
“Hard Ground,” “Mystery Woman,” “A Time to Remember,” “Just Desserts,” “A Place Called Home,” “The Long Shot (Believe in Courage),” “Life on Liberty Street,” “King Solomon’s Mines,” “La Femme Musketeer,” “The Trail to Hope Rose,” “The Hollywood Mom’s Mystery,” “Murder Without Conviction,” “Wedding Daze,” “Frankenstein” and “Love’s Enduring Promise.” He also executive produced "Mark Twain's Roughing It," "Everything That Rises" with Dennis Quaid, "Rough Riders" with Tom Berenger, and a series of "Hard Time" telefilms starring Burt Reynolds as detective Logan McQueen. Previously, Levinson was supervising producer for the Kenny Rogers' telefilms "MacShayne: The Final Roll of the Dice" and "MacShayne: Winner Takes All."
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DEAN HARGROVE (Executive Producer/Creator) – Dean Hargrove is one of television’s most talented, successful and prolific writer/producers. A true entertainment legend, he has been the creative genius behind some of the most notable and successful mystery series and telefilms ever created. Among his countless credits are the Emmy® Award-winning “Columbo,” starring Peter Falk, “Jake and the Fatman,” “Father Dowling Mysteries,” “Matlock,” “Diagnosis Murder,” the “Perry Mason” TV movie franchise, “The Name of the Game,” starring Gene Barry, “McCloud,” starring Dennis Weaver, “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” and so many countless other successes. Mr. Hargrove is enjoying enormous success currently in the international TV markets, creating and writing the enormously popular hit “HEX” for Sky One, “As If” for Channel Four and “Sea of Souls” for the BBC. Mr. Hargrove and his writing partner, Jeff Peters recently wrote and produced the buzz-worthy 14-minute film short “Tap Heat” that is currently in some of the nation’s biggest independent film festivals.
In addition to “Jane Doe,” Mr. Hargrove is also the creator and executive producer and writer for the Hallmark Channel Mystery Movie franchise “McBride.”
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NICK LOMBARDO (Co-Executive Producer) – Nick Lombardo is currently Executive Vice President, Production, Alpine Medien. His television credits include executive producer on “Pirates of Silicon Valley,” which received five Emmy® nominations including Outstanding Movie, and co-producer on the miniseries “Gettysburg.” From 1989 to 1998, Lombardo was vice president, then senior vice president, production, for Turner Network Television. From 1983 - 1989, he was with The Polson Company and produced the network telefilms “Go Toward the Light,” “Baby Girl Scott,” “In the Interest of Tracy” and “Not My Kid.” From 1979 - 1984, he was staff associate producer of “The Barbara Walters Specials.”
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LEA THOMPSON (Director) – Lea Thompson is making her directorial debut in JANE DOE “The Harder They Fall.” She is best known for her role in the Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis “Back to the Future” feature film franchise as well as the title character in the now-syndicated TV comedy “Caroline in the City,” for which she won TV Guide and People’s Choice Awards.
A native of Minnesota, Thompson began her career as a professional ballet dancer and performed in more than 45 ballets with the Minnesota Dance Theatre. After apprenticing with the Pennsylvania Ballet, she moved to New York at the age of 20 to pursue an acting career. She was first featured in a supporting role in the motion picture “Jaws 3-D,” which was followed by a starring role opposite Tom Cruise in “All the Right Moves.”
Additional film credits include “Article 99,” “Casual Sex?,” John Hughes’ “Some Kind of Wonderful” and “Dennis the Menace,” “Red Dawn,” “The Wizard of Loneliness,” “Howard the Duck,” “The Wild Life,” “Space Camp,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “The Little Rascals,” “The Unknown Cyclist,” and “Fish Don’t Blink.”
Thompson’s television credits include a guest-starring role on “Law & Order: SVU,” the series “For the People,” the miniseries “A Will of Their Own,” and the original movies “The Right to Remain Silent,” “The Unspoken Truth,” “The Substitute Wife,” “Montana,” “Stolen Babies” and “Nightbreaker,” for which she received a CableACE nomination.
On stage, Thompson recently finished both the National Tour and the Broadway Studio 54 production of Sam Mendes’ revival of “Cabaret” as well as a Los Angeles production of “The Vagina Monologues.”
Thompson resides in Los Angeles with her husband, film director Howard Deutch, their daughters, Zoey and Madelyn, and a menagerie of dogs, a cat, a parrot, lots of fish, and several horses.
