--- name: "Darin Morgan" canonical: "https://film.one/person/darin-morgan" fi1m_id: "darin-morgan" imdb_id: "nm0604587" tmdb_id: 141491 wikidata_id: "Q5222782" roles: ["Director"] born: "2 September 1948" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T21:43:02.142346+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Darin Morgan ## Identity Darin Morgan - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/darin-morgan - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** darin-morgan - **IMDb ID:** nm0604587 - **TMDB ID:** 141491 - **Wikidata ID:** Q5222782 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darin_Morgan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5222782, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604587/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/141491 Director. Born 2 September 1948 in Syracuse, New York, U.S. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 2 September 1948, Syracuse, New York, U.S - **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 1 Emmy (1 won) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darin_Morgan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5222782, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604587/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/141491 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*The X-Files*](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md) (84) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Darin Morgan > Darin Morgan makes sombre television stranger by allowing it to be funny. We value the sympathy beneath his absurdity, though his jokes about the programmes themselves work best once we know them well. *The X-Files* (1993) can be sombre company until Darin Morgan starts finding jokes in the unexplained. His episodes make the programme funny without treating its interest in strange people as something to be embarrassed about. We rate that contribution highly, even when the series' wider fondness for secrecy tries our patience. His early distinction was as a writer: *Humbug* (1995), his first solo episode, established his comic approach to its mysteries. We were moved by *Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose* (1995), because its blend of humour and close attention to character makes the person matter as much as the puzzle. That is the Morgan we value most, interested in how peculiar people think and feel even while he is making us laugh. *Jose Chung's From Outer Space* (1996) puts more weight on convoluted storytelling and jokes about the programme itself. There is pleasure in the ingenuity, but those jokes ask rather more of anyone who has not already become a regular viewer. Chris Carter hired Morgan for both *The X-Files* and *Millennium*, where he wrote and directed two episodes in 1997–98. The move also made the limits of his approach apparent. Some viewers found *Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense* (1997) at odds with *Millennium*'s prevailing bleakness, and we can understand the objection. A joke about how a programme tells its stories can interrupt our interest in the people living through them; the writing needs to give us a reason to care beyond recognising the joke. Morgan returned to *The X-Files* as writer-director with *Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster* (2016), continuing his comic approach, and wrote and directed another episode in 2018. We would not treat the comedy as something to skip on the way to the serious episodes. His interest in peculiar people is part of what makes this series worth spending time with. Start with *Humbug* and *Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose*; leave the more self-referential work until the programme's habits are familiar. ## Biography Darin Morgan is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He studied film at Loyola Marymount University and began his association with *The X-Files* (1993) by appearing as the Flukeman in the episode 'The Host' before contributing a story credit to 'Blood'. He went on to write several episodes for the series, including 'Humbug', 'Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose', 'War of the Coprophages' and 'Jose Chung's From Outer Space'. Morgan's teleplay for 'Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose' won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in 1996. He also wrote episodes of *Millennium* (1996) and returned to *The X-Files* for the revival seasons, writing and directing 'Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster' (2016) and 'The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat' (2018). He is the younger brother of writer and director Glen Morgan. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The X-Files* (1993), Fi1m 84, Story, Director, Story Editor, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md) ## Complete filmography (10) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Hawkeye* (2021), series, Second Unit Director of Photography - *Intruders* (2014), series, Writer - *Those Who Kill* (2014), series, Writer - *Tower Prep* (2010), series, Writer - *The One* (2001), as Hugo - *Millennium* (1996), series, Director, Writer - *The X-Files* (1993), series, as Flukeman, Eddie Van Blundht · Writer, Director, Story, Story Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md) - *The Howie Rubin Story* (1990), as Howie Rubin · Adaptation - *Legends of Doo-Wop* (1988), as Young Wayne - *21 Jump Street* (1987), series, as Skid ## Awards ### Primetime Emmy Awards — 1 won - 1996: Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (won), for *The X-Files* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. 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