A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born and raised in Iowa. He was a stand-up comedian in the late 80s and 90s. Settled in Los Angeles in the early 90s and landed several television guest spots, as well as numerous national commercials. He studied improv comedy with Second City LA, Acme and The Empty Stage Theater, where he worked with SNL's Kristen Wiig in the Perks Comedy Group.
Co-Executive Producer:
2004 June
Director:
2004 June
2006 Butcher House
2006 Dark Reality
2009 Bled
2010 Ashley's Ashes
Producer:
2004 June
2006 Butcher House
2006 Dark Reality
2008 A Darker Reality
2009 Bled
2010 Ashley's Ashes
Scenario Writer:
2004 June
2006 Butcher House
2006 Dark Reality
2008 A Darker Reality
2009 Bled
2010 Ashley's Ashes
Story:
2004 June
2006 Butcher House
2006 Dark Reality
2008 A Darker Reality
2009 Bled
2010 Ashley's Ashes
Writer:
2004 June
2006 Butcher House
2006 Dark Reality
2008 A Darker Reality
2009 Bled
2010 Ashley's Ashes
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.