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Garris, Mick

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Personal name headingGarris, Mick
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LocatedLos Angeles (Calif.) Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Birth date19511204
Place of birthSanta Monica (Calif.)
Field of activityHorror films -- Production and direction Motion picture authorship
Profession or occupationNovelists Screenwriters Television producers and directors Motion picture producers and directors
Found inSleepwalkers [MP] 1992: credits (directed by Mick Garris)
Garris, Mick. Salome, 2015: title page (Mick Garris), jacket (Mick Garris is Creator and Executive Producer of Showtime's Masters of Horror series, as well as creator of the NBC series, Fear Itself, both anthology series of one-hour horror films written and directed by the most famous names in the fear-film genre ... Garris also is a writer and director on both series. Garris was also Executive Producer and Director of Stephen King's Bag of Bones miniseries for A&E. He is currently developing three series. A Life In the Cinema, his first book, was a collection of short stories and a screenplay based on one of the included stories, published by Gauntlet Press. Garris' first novel, Development Hell, was published by Cemetery Dance ... Garris lives in Los Angeles, with his wife, Cynthia...)
Wikipedia, April 22, 2015: Mick Garris (Mick Garris (born December 4, 1951) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California ... He is best known for his adaptations of Stephen King stories, such as directing the horror film Sleepwalkers ... and is the creator of the Showtime series Masters of Horror and the NBC series Fear Itself... Garris is an atheist)
   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Garris>
IMDb, WWW site, April 22, 2015: Mick Garris, biography (Date of birth: 4 December 1951, Santa Monica, California, USA ; birth name: Michael Alan Garris; ... Mick Garris grew up with his mother in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Van Nuys from age 12 ... For eight years he was the lead singer in a band called The Horsefeathers Quintet, which disbanded in 1976. ... began making a name for himself with photographing and directing "making-of..." features for such films as Scanners (1981) ... Garris was hired by Steven Spielberg to be one of the writers and story editors for Spielberg's sci-fi anthology series Amazing Stories ... wrote screenplays for more horror anthology TV shows ... In 1992 Garris directed an original screenplay by Stephen King ... In 2005 Garris was able to assemble a group of his fellow horror film directors in the anthology horror series Masters of Horror (2005), which he created and executive-produced)
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