Garris, Mick

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GARRIS, Mick

GARRIS, Mick. American. Genres: Plays/Screenplays. Career: Screen-writer, director, and producer for feature films and television. Worked in a film production company; was hired as scriptwriter and story editor for Amazing Stories (NBC television series). Director of feature films, television series, episodes for television series, and television movies. Co-producer of films. Publications: SCREENPLAYS: Batteries Not Included, 1987; The Fly II, 1989; Hocus Pocus, 1993. TELEPLAYS. AMAZING STORIES EPISODES: Sitter, 1985; Amazing Falsworth, 1985; (with B. Bird) The Main Attraction, 1985; No Day at the Beach, 1985; The Greibble, 1986; (with T. McLoughlin) Go to the Head of the Class, 1986; (with T. McLoughlin and M. McDowell) Such Interesting Neighbors (adaptation), 1987; Without Diana, 1987. OTHER: She-Wolf of London (series); Quicksilver Highway (television movie), 1997; Michael Jackson's Ghosts, 1997. Author of unproduced screenplays and teleplays. Contributor of short stories and essays to magazines and anthologies. Address: c/o John Levan, Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212, U.S.A.

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