1. Darin Morgan was born on 1966 and is an American screenwriter best known for several offbeat, darkly humorous episodes of the television series The X-Files and Millennium.
17 Facts About Darin Morgan
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In 2015, Morgan wrote and directed one episode for The X-Files season ten, and returned again in 2017 to write and direct another episode for season eleven.
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Darin Morgan is the younger brother of writer and director Glen Morgan.
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Darin Morgan was born in Syracuse, New York, and studied in the film program at Loyola Marymount University, where he co-wrote a six-minute short film that led to a three-picture deal with TriStar Pictures.
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Darin Morgan subsequently wrote a number of unproduced screenplays and appeared in two small guest roles on The Commish and 21 Jump Street, where his brother Glen was a writer.
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Joel Silver hired Darin Morgan to write the second intended Tales From The Crypt film after Demon Knight, called Dead Easy a New Orleans zombie romp.
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In 1994, Darin Morgan was cast as the Flukeman, a mutated flukeworm the size of a human being, in "The Host", a second-season episode of The X-Files, where his brother, Glen, worked as a writer and producer.
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At the suggestion of producer Howard Gordon shortly thereafter, Darin Morgan became a full-time staff writer for The X-Files, where he wrote his first episode, "Humbug".
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Darin Morgan wrote two additional episodes of The X-Files in the 1990s: the absurdist cockroach invasion story "War of the Coprophages" and "Jose Chung's From Outer Space".
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Darin Morgan contributed to a rewrite of the episode "Quagmire", although he was uncredited for his contributions at the time.
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Darin Morgan left the show after its third season, but joined the writing staff of Millennium, writing and directing two episodes with layered plots and humorous dialogue: "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" and "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me".
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Darin Morgan worked on the show's eleventh season, contributing the script for the episode "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat".
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Darin Morgan worked on the second episode of former X-Files producer Frank Spotnitz's Kolchak: The Night Stalker remake, as consulting producer, though the show was canceled before any of Darin Morgan's scripts were produced.
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The only script that Darin Morgan wrote before the show was canceled was called "The M Word".
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Darin Morgan worked as a consulting producer on the short-lived TV reboot of Bionic Woman and Fringe.
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Darin Morgan subsequently joined his brother Glen's productions of Tower Prep and Intruders as a supervising producer, writing multiple episodes of each show.
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In 2015, Darin Morgan wrote and directed one episode for The X-Files season ten titled "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster", and then returned again in 2017 to write and direct "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" for season eleven.