Philip Gary Morris (born February 1968)[1] is an English former oil rig worker and media recovery specialist.
He is best known for being held hostage in 2006 by Nigerian kidnappers, and for founding Television International Enterprises Archive (TIEA).
Prior to being taken hostage, Philip Morris worked on rigs for twenty years all over the world including Africa and the Americas.
[2] While working on the rig Bulford Dolphin in 2006 as a crane operator, Morris was taken hostage along with eight others (six British, one American, one Canadian).
[6][9] In 2018, Morris recovered two lost episodes of The Morecambe & Wise Show from an abandoned theater in Freetown, Sierra Leone.