Bob Harris - Writing for a better world
Bob Harris is a screenwriter, speaker, author, and has been a quiz show superstar, radio commentator, TV host, and comedian.
As a screenwriter, Bob has written for Bones and CSI, was a consultant for Marvel’s Avengers: The Age of Ultron (the 10th top-grossing film of all time); head of the writers’ room on El Pantera, Mexico’s top action series; and the instructor of the graduate screenwriting program at the International Filmschule in Cologne, Germany.
Bob has written five books, including The International Bank of Bob (Walker/Bloomsbury), whose readers chipped in more than US $10,000,000 to fund businesses in more than 90 developing countries.
He was an Associated Press award-winning radio commentator for five years, and has contributed to dozens of publications ranging from The New York Times to The Intercept to National Lampoon. Bob has also contributed to Star Wars comic books, and as a travel writer for Forbes.
His speaking appearances include Adobe, Google, eBay, Visa, more than 200 US colleges; TEDx; and conferences hosted by the European Parliament and the US Department of State.
Bob has been a TV presenter and Co-host, and has appeared on dozens of talk shows, and was a stand-up comedian whose appearances included opening for Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen, and Paula Poundstone.
And in quizzing, Bob’s US appearances include 14 episodes of Jeopardy!, and giving the fastest phone-a-friend response in the history of the American version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Bob is on the advisory board of the National History Bee and Bowl, the largest academic quizzing organization in the world, and The Pop Culture Hero Coalition, an anti-bullying charity.
Offstage, Bob has kissed the Blarney Stone, rocked the Casbah, performed three marriages (becoming an ordained minister once to do so) including one on the Jeopardy! set itself, and obtained a bachelor’s degree with honours in electrical engineering and applied physics.
Originally from a small factory town in Ohio, Bob now lives gratefully in Sydney.
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