Frank Morriss

Frank E. Morriss (September 10, 1927 – July 3, 2013) was an American film and television editor with more than 50 credits dating from 1968. He had a notable collaboration with the director John Badham extending from 1974 to 2004. Morriss' editing of Charley Varrick (1973) was nominated for the BAFTA Award. He was honored at the 1974 Primetime Emmy Awards as "film editor of the year" for the television film The Execution of Private Slovik. Morriss was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing: for Blue Thunder (1983, with Edward M. Abroms) and for Romancing the Stone (1984, with Donn Cambern).

Frank Morriss
Born	September 10, 1927 Texas, U.S.
Died	July 3, 2013 Northridge, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film editor

Morriss was a 1946 graduate of Beverly Hills High School, where he was a varsity letterman in three sports. In 1948, Morriss enrolled at Santa Monica College.

Selected filmography

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1973	Charley Varrick	Don Siegel
1974	The Midnight Man	Roland Kibbee Burt Lancaster
1976	Ode to Billy Joe	Max Baer Jr.	First collaboration with Max Baer Jr.
1977	First Love	Joan Darling
1978	I Wanna Hold Your Hand	Robert Zemeckis	First collaboration with Robert Zemeckis
	Youngblood	Noel Nosseck
1979	Hometown U.S.A.	Max Baer Jr.	Second collaboration with Max Baer Jr.
1980	The Earthling	Peter Collinson
	Inside Moves	Richard Donner
1981	Whose Life Is It Anyway?	John Badham	First collaboration with John Badham
1983	Blue Thunder		Second collaboration with John Badham
1984	Romancing the Stone	Robert Zemeckis	Second collaboration with Robert Zemeckis
1985	American Flyers	John Badham	Third collaboration with John Badham
1986	Short Circuit		Fourth collaboration with John Badham
1988	Hot to Trot	Michael Dinner
1989	Disorganized Crime	Jim Kouf
1990	Short Time	Gregg Champion
	Bird on a Wire	John Badham	Fifth collaboration with John Badham
1991	The Hard Way		Sixth collaboration with John Badham
1993	Point of No Return		Seventh collaboration with John Badham
	Another Stakeout		Eighth collaboration with John Badham
1994	Drop Zone		Ninth collaboration with John Badham
1995	Nick of Time		Tenth collaboration with John Badham
1997	Incognito		Eleventh collaboration with John Badham
	Cyclops, Baby	D. J. Caruso
2017	Death of the Sheik	Vladislav Alex Kozlov	Second collaboration with Vladislav Alex Kozlov
2023	Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black		Third collaboration with Vladislav Alex Kozlov

Actor

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1983	Blue Thunder	John Badham	F-16 Pilot	Uncredited
1988	Hot to Trot	Michael Dinner	Track Announcer

Shorts

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes
2006	Daydreams of Rudolph Valentino	Vladislav Alex Kozlov Massimiliano Trevis	First collaboration with Vladislav Alex Kozlov

Producer

Year	Film	Director	Credit
2006	Daydreams of Rudolph Valentino	Vladislav Alex Kozlov Massimiliano Trevis	Co-producer

TV movies

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1970	The Movie Murderer	Boris Sagal
	Hauser's Memory
1971	Hitched
	The Harness
	Duel	Steven Spielberg
1972	Cutter	Richard Irving
	The Return of Charlie Chan	Daryl Duke Leslie H. Martinson
1973	Brock's Last Case	David Lowell Rich
	The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War	Russ Mayberry
1974	The Execution of Private Slovik	Lamont Johnson
	The Law	John Badham
	The Gun
	The Godchild
1975	A Cry for Help	Daryl Duke
1977	The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver	Gordon Hessler
1979	Murder by Natural Causes	Robert Day
	Death Car on the Freeway	Hal Needham
	When She Was Bad...	Peter H. Hunt
1980	Escape	Robert Michael Lewis
1992	Secrets	Peter H. Hunt
1998	Floating Away	John Badham
1999	The Jack Bull
2000	The Last Debate
2002	Brother's Keeper
	Obsessed
2003	Footsteps
2004	Evel Knievel

TV series

Editor

Year	Title	Notes
1964	Destry	2 episodes
1966	Laredo
1969	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors	1 episode
1968−69	It Takes a Thief	15 episodes
1970−71	The Name of the Game	3 episodes
1971	Sarge	1 episode
1972	McCloud
1975	Switch
1976	Family

See also

• List of film director and editor collaborations