Frank E. Morriss is a film and television editor with more than fifty film and television program credits dating from 1968.[1] Morriss was honored at the 1974 Primetime Emmy Awards as "film editor of the year" for the television film The Execution of Private Slovik. Morriss has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Film Editing: for Blue Thunder (1983, with Edward M. Abroms) and for Romancing the Stone (1984, with Donn Cambern). He has had a longstanding, notable collaboration with the director John Badham extending from 1981 – 2004.
Morriss is a 1946 graduate of Beverly Hills High School, where he was a three sport varsity letterman. He attended the University of Oregon for two quarters. In 1948, Morriss enrolled at Santa Monica College.
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