- Jonathan Morrill was Theater Manager of The Director's Guild of America, in Hollywood, California, when HBO's "The Young and The Dead"(2001), a film that he is featured painting an original Valentino portrait in, made it's premier at the very theater that he was managing.
- Jonathan Morrill holds the world record, as producer, for the longest continually broadcast original cable programming for "Johnny in Monsterland". The feature monster movie has been broadcast at least twice a year since 1990, first on Cape Cod Continental Cable (1990- 2008), Orleans, Massachusetts, and then on PTV (2008 - Present), Provincetown, Massachusetts).
- Jonathan Morrill was the Assistant Curator of The Hollywood Wax Museum from 1997 - 2002. His appearance in "Mysteries & Scandals: Bela Lugosi" was shot on location in The Chamber of Horrors at The Hollywood Wax Museum.
- Is probably best remembered for playing Johnny Talbot in both Johnnyin Monsterland (1990), and it's sequel, The Brides of Johnny in Monsterland (1992).
- Was the personal assistant to Kirk Douglas, at The Director's Guild of America's special event screening of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), with a question and answer session, moderated by Tim Allen, in 2001.
- Jonathan Morrill began his appointment with the UCLA Film & Television Archive on February 1st, 2018. Among the many newsreels, short subjects, television shows, and feature films he has helped to preserve, one of his early assignments was the restoration of many "Poverty Row" titles. These titles including "The Vampire Bat" (1932). "The Sin of Nora Moran" (1933) , "False faces (1932)", "Damaged Lives" (1933), "Mamba" (1930), and "Strange Illusion" (1945). These "Poverty Row" titles all had consecutive Hollywood Gala Premiers, of their restoration, at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, from October through December, of 2018.
- American Motion Picture Unions, including The Screen Actor's Guild, and the Director's Guild of America, joined in support to keep the "Spirit of America" strong in the days, weeks, and months that followed in the aftermath of 9/11. In a private screening held in Theatre Three of The Director's Guild of America, in November of 2001, Theatre Manager, Jonathan Morrill, previewed for then Screen Actor's Guild President, Melissa Gilbert, the completed production of "The Spirit of America" for her approval. Ironically, Jonathan Morrill had documented Melissa's then husband, Bruce Boxleitner, 16 years earlier, in St. Petersburg, Florida, when Bruce was the male representative for Lancôme for Men.
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