Philip Morton
Writing
Biography
A pro screenwriter for 20 years, and nominated for several awards, Morton started his career at Saturday Night Live and has written on numerous Hollywood studio assignments writing for Paramount, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema and DreamWorks Animation. He has written on studio features from 'Fantastic Four' to 'Jack Frost' (starring Micheal Keaton) and has been hired on studio projects as far ranging as science fiction, action-adventure and suspense films to family pictures. The writer of Fire Down Below starring Steven Seagal, he wrote the movies 12:01 PM starring Martin Landau which won the Brussels Film Festival Audience Award for best picture and an Honorary Edgar Award for best mystery writing. He has written for talent from Schwarzenegger to Eddie Murphy. His current project 'Amortals' is at Warner Brothers for producer Andrew Lazar (Academy Award winning producer of 'American Sniper'). He just finished co-producing the indie feature 'The Unwilling', (released by Vision Films). The Unwilling has won multiple awards on the festival circuit, including best horror picture at the Houston Film Festival. Morton was the head writer on the ABC sketch comedy TV show On the Air, staff writer last year for the mini-series 'One Question For God', the co-creator and writer of the sit-com 'Malibu Dan: Family Man'. Philip Morton is an award nominated Hollywood screen writer as well as a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. Previous work includes a daytime Emmy nomination on the writing staff of 'Unusual Phenomena', a comedy pilot for NBC, he has also written family entertainment and was part of the TV animation staff for the Emmy award winning 'Tutenstein'.
Known For
When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack Taggart is sent in—posing as a handyman working with a Christian relief agency—to determine what happened.
Fire Down Below
Real Gangsters tells the story of the Lo Giacamo family, one of the most successful crime syndicates in New York City. Run by cousins Vincent Lo Giacamo and Jack Lo Giacamo, Real Gangsters shows how these two men maintain control of their dangerous extended family and volatile business ventures by very different means.
Real Gangsters
Kenny the Shark is an animated television series produced by Discovery Kids. The show premiered on NBC's Discovery Kids on NBC from November 1, 2003 and ended February 18, 2006 with two seasons and 26 episodes having been shown. The series continued to run on Discovery Kids until the network changed into The Hub on October 10, 2010. Discovery Kids closed with a 4 hour marathon of Kenny the Shark episodes. Despite the closure, it still aired on The Hub until March 25, 2012. It is about an anthropomorphic tiger shark named Kenny that decides to move out of the ocean. He was the protagonist and main character in the series. This was not Kenny's first appearance, however. In the late-1990s, a series of shorts ran between regular programming. Kenny was not seen, as the camera was from his point of view. A contest was held to guess what kind of shark Kenny was with the result being a tiger shark.
Kenny the Shark
When a dismembered body is found in the Appalachian Mountains, a county Sheriff is shocked to discover that the predator is a six-hundred pound Bengal tiger.
Maneater
After the death of a much despised patriarch, a mysterious box shows up during the reading of the will, forcing the family to reckon with each of their own deadly sins.
The Unwilling
Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the life of beautiful research assistant Lisa Fredericks.
12:01
Sketch comedy loosely organized around parodies of televsion genres.