Frank Morriss

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.