Michael Morrison(V)
- Actor
Michael Morrison developed a love for movies at an early age, living in
Tennessee and watching them, mostly on television but occasionally -
especially when a new John Wayne film was exhibited - in first-run
theaters. When chance took him back to California and eventually to Los
Angeles, he attended Los Angeles Valley College, in Van Nuys, and
enrolled in a course called Motion Picture Production Technician. He
took "lots" of film history classes, also later at Los Angeles Pierce
College (made famous in Joseph Wambaugh's "The Onion Field"), and
"lots" of theater classes. He was a regular in attendance at the Silent
Movie Theater (which theater itself figured in several movies, notably
Dick Van Dyke's "The Comic"). At a Western film series shown at UCLA,
he met a young film enthusiast from Ohio, Wendell Wethington, who
actually found jobs working in the industry they both loved. Wendell
asked Michael, and others, to be atmosphere or production assistant
(knowing they'd work cheap), particularly in "Johnny Firecloud,"
Michael's only completed-film credit to date. He has continued to
express his love of movies, though, by writing reviews, on Internet
sites and for newspapers, and working on so-far-unproduced screenplays
(a condition known to probably tens of thousands of other movie
lovers). He has also long been a practicing journalist and in that
capacity has interviewed such movie greats as (the now late) Elmer
Bernstein, Robert Wise, Bo Svenson, Geoffrey Lewis, and many others. He
also displays his scholarship by writing biographies and trivia
notations at, especially, Internet Movie DataBase, his favorite
Internet site, he says frequently.