Rocky Morton

Rocky Morton is an English director. He is co-creator of the television series Max Headroom and co-director of the 1993 Hollywood Pictures film Super Mario Bros.. Several music videos for Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads, Gravity Kills, Orgy, George Harrison and Miles Davis are credited to Morton.

Works

Tellers

An aging detective comes out of retirement when the events around his grandson's suicide suggest foul play.

Release Date2019-06-13

Charactersd Sam Duffield

Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game

A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.

Release Date2014-11-03

Charactersd Self - Co-Director

Vote Count9

Max Headroom

Television networks battle one another in an unrelenting ratings war. Whoever controls the airwaves controls the dystopic world in which they broadcast. So when Network 23's star reporter, Edison Carter, uncovers a deadly secret that could shake up the station's dominion over its viewers, the only option is to eliminate Carter before he can make his story public. After Carter's "accident," his mind is uploaded to create the world's first self-aware, computer-generated TV host — Max Headroom! But will Max bow to his creators? Or will he be the key to his human alter ago bringing down a network superpower?

Release Date1987-03-31

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count67

The Max Headroom Show

The Max Headroom Show started life in the UK in 1985. The show featured actor Matt Frewer playing the role as computer-generated talk-show host Max Headroom.

Release Date1985-04-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count36

Vote Count11

Super Mario Bros.

Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.

Release Date1993-05-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1356

D.O.A.

Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney Fuller.

Release Date1988-03-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count212

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future

While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.

Release Date1985-04-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count46

The Best of Max Headroom

Some of the best bits from 'The Max Headroom Show'.

Release Date1987-03-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Rush: Through the Camera Eye

Through the Camera Eye is a videocassette/laserdisc release by the Canadian band Rush. It was released in 1985 by PolyGram Records. It contains promotional videos issued for the band's albums Moving Pictures (1981), Signals (1982) and Grace Under Pressure (1984).

Release Date1985-07-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Marx for Beginners

In order to understand the works and ideas of Karl Marx, this animation takes an ordinary man through several different periods of history, from the cavemen to the philosophers of the world to better comprehend Marx ideals for the proletarian and why the world is an unfair contradiction of all sorts.

Release Date1979-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Touch Me (All Night Long)

An abstract play of shape, colour and light. Cathy Dennis wears a variety of bright neon bodysuits. Other dancers are covered in paint in varying ways

Release Date1992-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

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