A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
William Benjamin Switzer
Birthplace:
Walkerton, Ontario, Canada
Born:
January 19, 1880
Died:
May 1, 1933
Director:
1915 Neal of the Navy
1915 The Mender
1916 A Modern Knight
1916 The Comet's Come-Back
1916 The Extra Man and the Milk-Fed Lion
1917 The Little Patriot
1917 The Neglected Wife
1917 Who Is Number One?
1918 A Daughter of the West
1918 Dolly Does Her Bit
1919 The Old Maid's Baby
1919 The Sawdust Doll
1919 The Tryout
1920 Hidden Dangers
1924 Smoking Trails
1925 The Golden Trail
1926 Ace of Action
1926 Detective K-9
1926 Fangs of Vengeance
1926 Hoodoo Ranch
1927 The Phantom Buster
Writer:
1915 Neal of the Navy
1915 The Mender
1916 A Modern Knight
1916 The Comet's Come-Back
1916 The Extra Man and the Milk-Fed Lion
1917 The Little Patriot
1917 The Neglected Wife
1917 Who Is Number One?
1918 A Daughter of the West
1918 Dolly Does Her Bit
1919 The Old Maid's Baby
1919 The Sawdust Doll
1919 The Tryout
1920 Hidden Dangers
1924 Smoking Trails
1925 The Golden Trail
1926 Ace of Action
1926 Detective K-9
1926 Fangs of Vengeance
1926 Hoodoo Ranch
1927 The Phantom Buster
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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.