Morgan Beggs

Morgan Beggs is an episode director and first assistant director for ABC's Once Upon a Time.

Biography
Morgan James Beggs hails from Canada. He began his career as a child actor in the Canadian film Skip Tracer from 1977, the only acting credit he has received. He first worked as a second assistant director on the police procedural television series 21 Jump Street, working alongside a young Johnny Depp. He went on to serve as a second assistant director on the 1994 science fiction action film Timecop, and the 1995 adventure drama film Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain. He has served as first assistant director on such series as The Commish, The X-Files, Millennium, Beggars and Choosers, Dark Angel, Tru Calling, Reunion, Men in Trees, The 4400, The Killing, The Secret Circle, Fear the Walking Dead, Dead of Summer and A Series of Unfortunate Events; and on films like Screwed, Head Over Heels, Spooky House, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Elektra, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Ramona and Beezus and Monster Trucks. Beggs' first job as a TV director was an episode the TV series Dark Angel. He has also directed for Kyle XY, The 4400 and Flash Gordon. Beggs' seminal achievements lie with the Superman prequel series Smallville, which ran for 10 seasons; and Once Upon a Time. He served as 1st AD on 35 installments of Smallville, including the 2011 finale, and directed the episodes "Bulletproof", "Pandora" and "Collateral". On Once Upon a Time, Beggs has 1st assistant directed over 40 episodes, while directing the Season Four episode "Rocky Road" and the Season Six edisode "Murder Most Foul".