A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Two time Golden Globe winner, Mel was chosen as the first Gilliland Chair of Telecommunications at San Jose State University. He has received four Emmy Award nominations, one Humanitas Prize nomination, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and two MPSE Golden Reel Awards. As a Producer and Executive he has supervised hundreds of productions in the USA and around the world. From summer stock Musicals, to Comedy and Drama, Mel has shepherded 'story telling' from his beginnings in theatre to the world of television, as we know it today.
Associate Producer:
1976 Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
Executive In Charge Of Production:
1976 Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
1989 Final Notice
1989 Sorry, Wrong Number
1989 Spy
1989 The Forgotten
1989 The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
1990 Dangerous Pursuit
1990 Fire and Rain
1990 Hitler's Daughter
1990 Nightmare on the 13th Floor
1990 Snow Kill
1990 The Kissing Place
1990 Web of Deceit
1991 Child of Darkness, Child of Light
1991 Deadly Desire
1991 Deadly Game
1991 Fatal Exposure
1991 Love Kills
1991 Murderous Vision
1991 The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
1991 The Lightning Incident
1991 Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story
1991 Writer's Block
1992 Are You Lonesome Tonight?
1992 Blind Man's Bluff
1992 Body Language
1992 Chrome Soldiers
1992 Homewrecker
1992 Sunstroke
1992 The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
1992 Treacherous Crossing
1993 Deadly Relations
1993 Dying to Remember
1993 Fade to Black
1993 Jericho Fever
1993 Linda
1993 Official Denial
1993 Praying Mantis
1993 Rubdown
1993 Tainted Blood
1993 The Cover Girl Murders
1993 The Substitute
1994 Accidental Meeting
1994 Dancing with Danger
1994 The Spider and the Fly
1994 Trapped in Space
1997 12 Angry Men
1998 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1999 Inherit the Wind
1999 That Championship Season
Producer:
1976 Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
1979 Pleasure Cove
1980 The Night the City Screamed
1985 The Eagle and The Bear
1987 If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium
1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
1989 Final Notice
1989 Sorry, Wrong Number
1989 Spy
1989 The Forgotten
1989 The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
1990 Dangerous Pursuit
1990 Fire and Rain
1990 Hitler's Daughter
1990 Nightmare on the 13th Floor
1990 Snow Kill
1990 The Kissing Place
1990 Web of Deceit
1991 Child of Darkness, Child of Light
1991 Deadly Desire
1991 Deadly Game
1991 Fatal Exposure
1991 Love Kills
1991 Murderous Vision
1991 The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
1991 The Lightning Incident
1991 Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story
1991 Writer's Block
1992 Are You Lonesome Tonight?
1992 Blind Man's Bluff
1992 Body Language
1992 Chrome Soldiers
1992 Homewrecker
1992 Sunstroke
1992 The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
1992 Treacherous Crossing
1993 Deadly Relations
1993 Dying to Remember
1993 Fade to Black
1993 Jericho Fever
1993 Linda
1993 Official Denial
1993 Praying Mantis
1993 Rubdown
1993 Tainted Blood
1993 The Cover Girl Murders
1993 The Substitute
1994 Accidental Meeting
1994 Dancing with Danger
1994 The Spider and the Fly
1994 Trapped in Space
1997 12 Angry Men
1998 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1999 Inherit the Wind
1999 That Championship Season
Second Unit Director:
1976 Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
1979 Pleasure Cove
1980 The Night the City Screamed
1985 The Eagle and The Bear
1987 If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium
1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
1989 Final Notice
1989 Sorry, Wrong Number
1989 Spy
1989 The Forgotten
1989 The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
1990 Dangerous Pursuit
1990 Fire and Rain
1990 Hitler's Daughter
1990 Nightmare on the 13th Floor
1990 Snow Kill
1990 The Kissing Place
1990 Web of Deceit
1991 Child of Darkness, Child of Light
1991 Deadly Desire
1991 Deadly Game
1991 Fatal Exposure
1991 Love Kills
1991 Murderous Vision
1991 The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
1991 The Lightning Incident
1991 Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story
1991 Writer's Block
1992 Are You Lonesome Tonight?
1992 Blind Man's Bluff
1992 Body Language
1992 Chrome Soldiers
1992 Homewrecker
1992 Sunstroke
1992 The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
1992 Treacherous Crossing
1993 Deadly Relations
1993 Dying to Remember
1993 Fade to Black
1993 Jericho Fever
1993 Linda
1993 Official Denial
1993 Praying Mantis
1993 Rubdown
1993 Tainted Blood
1993 The Cover Girl Murders
1993 The Substitute
1994 Accidental Meeting
1994 Dancing with Danger
1994 The Spider and the Fly
1994 Trapped in Space
1997 12 Angry Men
1998 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1999 Inherit the Wind
1999 That Championship Season
Director:
1976 Good Heavens
1982 Fame
Producer:
1973 Police Story
1976 Good Heavens
1982 Fame
1984 Miami Vice
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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.