- He was Mark Ruffalo's stand-in for the poster of the film "In the Cut" also starring Meg Ryan and was the fit model for the serial murderer costumes designed for the new thriller "Zodiac".
- The trumpet that Harrison uses in the movie First Daughter (2004) is the same one used by his friend Penny McGuiggan when she was a band member in Billy Wilder's classic, Some Like It Hot.
- Once played "grapes" in a trade show presentation for Fruit of the Loom.
- Harrison was once a host on an internet site that specialized in red carpet streaming video interviews at premiers and film festivals. The celebrities he interviewed include Shirley MacLaine, Garry Marshall, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Mantagne, Robert Forster and Patricia Heaton to name a few. He hosted and produced a TV show called "Happy Birthday Marilyn" that appeared on Southern California Cable and was also screened in an aclaimed Marilyn Monroe exhibit at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum.
- Hosted the Miss Los Angeles County USA 2004 Pageant.
- Once lived in the apartment formerly occupied by Hank Mann, the silent movie actor who has a star at the southwest corner of Hollywood and Vine.
- He was once a contributing writer/editor for the "NOHO>L.A." newspaper and for Janie Bradford's "Entertainment Connection Magazine".
- A fluke job as a security guard on the John Ritter film "Terror Tract" led to a small credited role in the movie.
- While interning in the Columbia Records A&R department Harrison screened songs for Barbra Streisand albums.
- Was Steve Carell's back up chest double for "The 40 Year Old Virgin". 22 months later in a last minute casting change Held was cast as a bar patron who gets an exotic lap dance from actress Stormy Daniels in the new Courtney Cox/David Arquette series "Dirt". Stormy is also the Adult Actress Carell's character in "The 40 Year Old Virgin" fantasizes about....
- Has a "hoffice" (home/office) in Los Angeles but prefers to live on a ranch outside Santa Barbara. Once wrote an article about silent film genius Harold Lloyd and was surprised to find Lloyd's star right outside the entrance to the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show - close to the ladder he was on in the X-Mas skit he was in on JKL... Harrison also appears in a movie short called "The Gold Necklace"... recently while walking by Lloyd's star he looked down and was very surprised to find a gold necklace close by. In 2000 Harrison used to sit next to a very aged brilliant Billy Wilder while getting his hair cut in Los Angeles... "I guess I got some good ideas for funny lines & film making by osmosis" he jokes.
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