Frank Morriss(1927-2013)
- Editor
- Actor
- Producer
Frank Morriss was born in 1927 in Texas. At a young age he and his
mother and sisters moved to California. He attended the San Jose State
University and played football for them. He began his editing career in
the 1960s and 1970s in television. He took an Emmy for his work on 'The
Execution of Private Slovik' and the suspense on Spielberg's masterly
'Duel' is heightened by Morriss's cutting. In the 1980s he became
associated with the films of John Badham, his Oscar-nominated work,
with Edward Abroms, on 'Blue Thunder' being particularly outstanding,
Since the mid-1990s he has returned to almost exclusively television
work.
