Glen Morgan (born July 12, 1961) is an American television producer,

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and director. He is best known for co-writing episodes of the Fox science fiction supernatural drama series ''

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'' with his partner, James Wong. He served as an executive producer on the show's eleventh season. He also executive produced ''

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'' reboot by

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Early life

Morgan resided in

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, before moving to

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at the age of 14. While attending

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, he met James Wong, who would become his friend and professional partner. Both enrolled at

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, graduating from the School of Film and Television in 1983.

Career

Morgan did not want to work in television at first, but wound up accepting a job on ''

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'' with James Wong as his writing partner. This would later earn him and Wong a steady job at Stephen J. Cannell Productions. As both men were about to leave the company following writing for '' The Commish'' in 1992, their former boss at Cannell, Peter Roth, invited them to work on a new show being developed at

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''. Morgan and Wong left ''The X-Files'' after

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to create their own show, '' Space: Above and Beyond'', which was canceled after one season. They returned to ''The X-Files'' for season four, after which, Chris Carter hired the duo as

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s for season two of ''

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''. Both Morgan and Wong would eventually jump to film, creating the ''Final Destination'' series, '' The One'', the 2003 remake of '' Willard'', and the 2006 remake of '' Black Christmas'', as well as work on American television shows '' The Others'' and ''The X-Files'' spinoff, ''

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''. Afterwards, Morgan and Wong developed different interests and started working separately. In May 2007, ''

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'' reported that Morgan had joined the production team of

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's '' Bionic Woman'' as an executive producer, however in September 2007 it was reported that Morgan left the show due to "creative differences". In 2010, Morgan served as executive producer on

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's ''

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'' alongside

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. Morgan was a co-ep on '' The River in 2012,'' before writing and serving as executive producer on ''

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'' for A&E in 2014. Later in 2014, Morgan was hired on as the writer and executive producer of '' Intruders'', which premiered on

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on August 23, 2014. In 2015, Morgan was once again called in by ''The X-Files'' creator and show runner Chris Carter to executive produce ''The X-Files'' season ten event series, which aired in 2016 on Fox. Morgan wrote and directed one episode titled " Home Again" that was met with positive reviews from critics. In 2017, Morgan was executive producer and writer of Amazon's '' Lore,'' before leaving the series to serve as executive producer on ''The X-Files'' season eleven. Morgan wrote and directed one episode, "

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Personal life

Morgan has been married since 1998 to actress

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, whom he met while working on ''Space: Above & Beyond''. At the time, Morgan was divorcing from his first wife, Cindy,''The X-Files'' first season episode's "Eve" character of Cindy Reardon/Eve 10, was named after her. with whom he had a daughter. Cloke has appeared in several of his other projects, including ''Space: Above and Beyond'', ''Millennium'', ''Willard'', ''Final Destination'', ''The X-Files'', and ''Black Christmas''. They have four children. He is the older brother of fellow ''X-Files'' writer

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Filmography (actor)

* ''

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Filmography (writer)

* '' The Boys Next Door'' (1985) (with James Wong) * ''

'' (1986) (uncredited) * '' Space: Above and Beyond'' (1995) (co-creator and writer, with James Wong) * '' Final Destination'' (2000) (with James Wong and Jeffrey Reddick) * '' The One'' (2001) (with James Wong) * '' Final Destination 3'' (2006) (with James Wong) * ''

'' (2016) and (2018), 3 chapters.

Filmography (director)

* '' Willard'' (2003) * '' Black Christmas'' (2006) * '' Final Destination 3'' (2006) (

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) * ''

'' (2016) and (2018), 3 chapters.

References

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