Morgan Fallon

Cinematographer and producer, also actor and director

2 Primetime Emmys

Morgan Fallon is a nine-time Emmy nominated Executive Producer, Director and Cinematographer. He was born and raised in New England. He went on to study film at Emerson College in Boston. After graduation, he spent three years working for his mentor, Director Michael Mann. In 2003, he turned his focus to nonfiction production as a Director and Cinematographer, filming and directing hundreds of hours of content and amassing over fifteen thousand hours in the field domestically and in over sixty countries on seven continents. In 2007, he began a long-term working relationship with producers Chris Collins and Lydia Tegnalia and their New York-based production company, Zero Point Zero Productions. Throughout his tenure at ZPZ, Fallon has focused primarily on work with ZPZ creative partner Anthony Bourdain on several episodic series and documentaries produced by Bourdain, including the Emmy winning Mind of a Chef, the theatrically distributed documentary The last Magnificent and the Emmy, Peabody, PGA, TCA and ACE award winning series Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, which Fallon shot, directed and produced throughout the series' one hundred and three episode run. Currently, he is a Director and Executive Producer for the Emmy winning series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. Fallon specializes in empathic, cohesive and comprehensive human connection and storytelling as well as premium cinematography in a wide range of environments. He possesses an extraordinary depth of operational knowledge and grasp of local customs and codes of conduct in a far-reaching spectrum of cultural contexts. Additionally, he has received comprehensive hazardous/hostile environment training and has broad experience in wilderness production. Fallon's other skills include international production logistics, post/story producing, set lighting, Non-fiction television writing and underwater cinematography. Morgan Fallon has received three Daytime and six Primetime Emmy nominations, including Primetime Emmy wins for Nonfiction Cinematography and Nonfiction Directing. He lives in Woodland Hills, California, with his wife and production partner, Gillian Brown, and his two children, August and Iris.

What are Morgan Fallon's films like?

Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Self.

Themes

share of theme weight

Society

41%

Self

28%

Ideas

18%

Bonds

5%

Survival

5%

Morality

4%

Community5 Purpose2 Ambition3 Art2 Tradition vs change3 Identity2

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Contemplative

9

Warm

5

Hopeful

4

Joyful

2

Melancholic

2

Other

6

How their films linger

Thought-provoking6 Hopeful4 Feel-good3 Bittersweet2

How their films end

Bittersweet4
Ambiguous4
Cyclical1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Morgan Fallon's films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

CNN All Access3 titles, show their 3 titles on CNN All Access
discovery+1 title, show their title on discovery+
PBS Documentaries1 title, show their title on PBS Documentaries
PBS Living1 title, show their title on PBS Living

Subscription and free streaming for Morgan Fallon's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

8 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

Craig Ferguson: American on Purpose(2026)
Show 5 episodes · Executive Producer
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever(2026)
Show Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Sneaker Wars: Adidas v Puma(2025)
Show 3 episodes · Executive Producer
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all shows
My Next Guest with David Letterman and Shah Rukh Khan (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Cinematographer
Elvis Goes There(2019)
Show Director · Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent(2016)
Director · Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
United Shades of America(2016)
Show Director · Producer
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all shows
The Mind of a Chef(2012)
Show Director · Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows

Career shape

A full career of 4 titles from 2016 to 2026.

Biggest box office

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)

$5.5M worldwide

Highest rated

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)

Midcredits 98^th

By role

only this rolewith another role

Producing2 of 4Cinematography2 of 4

By decade

2010s2 · crew2020s2 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.

Awards

2 Primetime Emmys from 7 major nominations, 2013–2023.

WinNomination

2023
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special
2021
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special
2019
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program
2018
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Informational Series or Special
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program
2014
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming
2013
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

Who does Morgan Fallon work with?

People who share at least 2 of Morgan Fallon's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Amy Entelis shares the most, 5.

Directors