A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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'.
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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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.