Philip Morton

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A pro screenwriter for 20 years, and nominated for several awards, Morton started his career at Saturday Night Live and has written on numerous Hollywood studio assignments writing for Paramount, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema and DreamWorks Animation. He has written on studio features from 'Fantastic Four' to 'Jack Frost' (starring Micheal Keaton) and has been hired on studio projects as far ranging as science fiction, action-adventure and suspense films to family pictures.  The writer of Fire Down Below starring Steven Seagal, he wrote the movies 12:01 PM starring Martin Landau which won the Brussels Film Festival Audience Award for best picture and an Honorary Edgar Award for best mystery writing. He has written for talent from Schwarzenegger to Eddie Murphy. His current project 'Amortals' is at Warner Brothers for producer Andrew Lazar (Academy Award winning producer of 'American Sniper'). He just finished co-producing the indie feature 'The Unwilling', (released by Vision Films). The Unwilling has won multiple awards on the festival circuit, including best horror picture at the Houston Film Festival.  Morton was the head writer on the ABC sketch comedy TV show On the Air, staff writer last year for the mini-series 'One Question For God', the co-creator and writer of the sit-com 'Malibu Dan: Family Man'. Philip Morton is an award nominated Hollywood screen writer as well as a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. Previous work includes a daytime Emmy nomination on the writing staff of 'Unusual Phenomena', a comedy pilot for NBC, he has also written family entertainment and was part of the TV animation staff for the Emmy award winning 'Tutenstein'.

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Director:
1998  Viewer Discretion Advised

Producer:
1998  Viewer Discretion Advised
2017  The Unwilling

Screenplay:
1997  Fire Down Below
1998  Viewer Discretion Advised
2013  Real Gangsters
2017  The Unwilling

Writer:
1993  12:01
1997  Fire Down Below
1998  Viewer Discretion Advised
2007  Maneater
2013  Real Gangsters
2017  The Unwilling

Writer:
2003  Kenny the Shark

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