Harris had previously worked with Star Trek: The Motion Picture director Robert Wise as an illustrator on the Academy Award-winning musicals West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965, starring Christopher Plummer). Harris later worked as an illustrator on the films Taps (1981, featuring Billy Van Zandt), Two of a Kind (1983, featuring Robert Costanzo, with set decoration by Marvin March), The Pentient (1988), Mobsters (1991, featuring F. Murray Abraham, Seymour Cassel, Willie Garson, Chuck Picerni, Jr., Christian Slater, and Titus Welliver, with art direction by Peter Landsdown Smith), and Frankie and Johnny (1991, featuring K Callan and Dey Young).