Rocky Morton

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Nationality: British
Birthdate: 00/00/1955
Birthplace: England, United Kingdom

biography

British animation and computer graphics designer turned Hollywood feature director. Morton began directing distinctive commercials and videos with his partner Annabel Jankel. Together they created the once wildly popular Max Headroom. This 1980s video icon was a wisecracking TV-talking head given irreverent life by manic comic actor Matt Frewer. The computer-generated Headroom was featured in a British TV special, a Cinemax interview series, an American TV series, and a slew of Coke ads. Morton and Jankel made their feature directorial debut with a mediocre remake of the 1950 noir classic, Continued

Credits

Director
1993
Director
1981

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
After art school, co-founded Cucumber Studios; a filmmakers and animators collective that produced commercially viable material so as to fund more experimenal projects
 
Co-directed (with Annabel Jankel), innovative music videos for artists including Miles Davis, Elvis Costello, and The Talking Heads
1984 
Co-wrote with Jankel, "Creative Computer Graphics"
 
Designed the original Max Headroom computer-animated character after being solicited, with partner Annabel Jankel, to created a pop video show for Britian's channel 4
1985 
Co-directed with Jankel the one-hour TV pilot, "The Max Headroom Show"; ceased to have involvement with the various series that followed
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