Tribute has been paid to the late Michael Owen Morris by the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.

The graphic reads "In loving memory" and shares an image of the man himself, who has gone down in history as one of EastEnders' most prolific directors and lived from 1947 until he died in 2026.

Who is Michael Owen Morris in EastEnders?

Michael Owen Morris was a television director and one of the .

Morris regularly directed episodes on the soap starting in 2003 all the way until 2019, meaning he worked with multiple executive producers, including Louise Berridge, Kate Harwood, Diederick Santer, Bryan Kirkwood, Lorraine Newman, Dominic Treadwell-Collins, Sean O'Connor, John Yorke, and Kate Oates.

During this time, he also produced several episodes and also helmed the spin-off special Pat & Mo in 2004, which centred on the backstory of Pat Evans (Pat St. Clement) and Mo Harris (Laila Morse) in their youth.

Morris made one final return to helm an episode of the soap in 2023 under executive producer Chris Clenshaw for the special episode set in France that revealed how Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) had been alive despite her presumed death in 1998 and was now living with Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) and son Peter (Thomas Law). The episode also featured a return for Lauren Branning (Jacqueline Jossa). So, this was an episode of returns for those in front of and behind the camera!

Outside of EastEnders, Morris worked on BBC productions such as The Onedin Line, Doctor Who, Vanity Fair (1987), Tenko, Holby City and Casualty.

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