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| Harrod | |
| Aliases: | Doctor Harrod |
| Continuity: | Re-Animator |
| Notability: | Minor character |
| Type: | Physician |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | Arkham, Essex County, Massachusetts |
| Associations: | Miskatonic Medical School |
| Status: | Alive |
| Born: | 1947 [1] |
| First: | Re-Animator |
| Actor: | Carolyn Purdy-Gordon |
Harrod, first name unknown, is a fictional doctor and a minor character featured in the 1985 sci-fi/horror film Re-Animator. She was played by actress Carolyn Purdy-Gordon and appeared in the first act of the film.
Biography[]
Doctor Harrod was a general medical physician who worked at the Miskatonic Medical School facility of Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts in the mid 1980s.
In 1985, Doctor Harrod and a third-year student named Dan Cain, as well as three nurses tried to resuscitate a dying woman. Doctor Harrod applied defibrilators to the patient, but could not regain a heartbeat. Doctor Cain tried administering additional CPR techniques until Harrod told him to stop, indicating that the patient had flatlined. Although Doctor Harrod admired the young student's optimism, she reminded him that a good doctor always knows when it is time to give up. [2]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Harrod was created by director Stuart Gordon and screenwriters Dennis Paoli and William J. Norris based on concepts originally developed by author H. P. Lovecraft.
- Actress Carolyn Purdy-Gordon received seventh billing in the opening credits for Re-Animator.
- Playing the role of Doctor Harrod is the first horror film work for actress Carolyn Purdy-Gordon. She is also known for playing Doctor Bloch in From Beyond in 1986, Rosemary Bower in Dolls in 1987, and Contessa D'Alba Molina in the 1991 film adaptation of The Pit and the Pendulum.
- Doctor Harrod also appeared in issue #1 of the first Re-Animator comic book series by Malibu Graphics.
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- ↑ Date approximated based upon the age of actress Carolyn Purdy-Gordon.
- ↑ Re-Animator (1985); Chapter 2, "Miskatonic Medical School"