Frank Morriss

Frank E. Morriss 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 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 and for Romancing the Stone.
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

Shorts

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

Year	Film	Director	Credit
2006	Daydreams of Rudolph Valentino		Co-producer

TV movies

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

TV series