A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Forest Hill, London, England
Born:
April 20, 1961
Chris is a multi-talented performer who made his professional acting debut in 1979 with Mustapha Matura’s Welcome home Jacko at The Factory in London. He was a founder member of the Black Theatre Co-operative producing plays about the Black experience. He has since worked extensively in Theatre, TV, and film throughout the years along with being a singer and musician. Credits include: Soul Sister (Savoy Theatre/UK and world tour); The Harder They Come (Playhouse Theatre/UK and World tour) and The Big Life (Apollo Theatre). TV credits include lead performer in No Problem (LWT), Desmond’s and comedy sketch show Get Up Stand Up (Ch4). He has recently been seen in The Widow (Amazon prime) and Stay Close (Netflix) and can currently be seen in The Bezonians in selected cinemas and streaming platforms.
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.