Daniel Edward Morgan Turner, professionally known as Dan Turner, is a UK-based

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

. Born in

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

, Turner excelled at

English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...

and participated in local theatre. It was not until 2004, after many

short films A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

, that Dan first made the feature film ''Experiment'' in 2005. He has since directed the 2008 film ''Look at Me'', and the 2009 release ''Big Mistake''. In 2010 Turner made the horror feature film ''

Stormhouse ''Stormhouse'' is a 2011 British independent horror film directed by Dan Turner and starring Grant Masters and Katie Flynn. Plot Four months before the war in Iraq, a supernatural creature is caught by the United States army and locked in a Bri ...

'', which was selected for the

Edinburgh Film Festival The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is a film festival that runs for two weeks in June each year. Established in 1947, it is the world's oldest continually running film festival. EIFF presents both UK and international films (all ti ...

and Frightfest in London, and in 2011 Dan directed a feature film of his semi-biographical screenplay '' The Man Inside''The Man Inside – review - Dan Turner has managed to get inside the head of the typical geezer thriller to create something more intelligent (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, Thursday 26 July 2012
/ref> starring Peter Mullan, David Harewood, Ashley "Bashy" Thomas,

Michelle Ryan Michelle Claire Ryan (born 22 April 1984) is an English actress. She played Zoe Slater on the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' (2000–2005). In 2007, she starred in the short-lived American television series ''Bionic Woman''. She appeared as the ...

and Jason Maza. Turner currently works from Elstree

Film studio A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company or motion picture company that has its own privately owned studio facility or facilities that are used to make films, which is handled by the production ...

s, on a variety of film and theatre projects.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Dan English film directors 1968 births Living people People from Colchester