A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Hennie Smit was born in Malmesbury on 19 May. He matriculated at Jongens High School in Paarl where he started with music and stage work. In 1962 he studied in Pretoria at 'Landbou Tegniese Voorligter' and in 1965 he studied at the 'Goudstadse Onderwys Kollege' specialising in Drama. In 1967 he starred in his first films: Pretoria O Pretoria and Die Rebel. Thereafter followed 32 other films and TV series like Nommer Asseblief, Willem, Die Swartkat and many more. Hennie also did children's records like Sprokiesland, Hendrik die Hoenderhaan and Swartkat. He has performed with famous artists like Sonja Heroldt, Bles Bridges and André Schwartz. In 1992 he appeared in Egoli as Bertie - a part which was created for him! After 32 years in the entertainment industry, his CD, 'Uiteindelik' was launched. He loves cooking, watching sport on TV and playing chess. [http://www.tvsa.co.za]
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.