A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Tucson - Arizona - USA
Gil Grant was born in Tucson, Arizona. After graduating from Rincon High School, he attended the University of Arizona while working full time at KVOA-TV as a camera operator, eventually directing the evening news. He graduated from the U of A with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. Landing a job at KPNX-TV in Phoenix (then KTAR), he wrote and directed commercials during the day, while writing screenplays at night. His break came when he sold a script to a new NBC sitcom, OPERATION PETTICOAT. Based on a Cary Grant, Tony Curtis film about a pink submarine in World War II, the series starred John Astin, as well an 18 year old Jamie Lee Curtis, in one of her first roles.
Writer:
1986 My Town
Co-Executive Producer:
2003 NCIS
Creator:
1987 The Oldest Rookie
1990 Hull High
1992 Covington Cross
1994 McKenna
1999 Relic Hunter
2001 Tracker
2003 NCIS
2007 Painkiller Jane
Producer:
1987 The Oldest Rookie
1990 Hull High
1992 Covington Cross
1994 McKenna
1996 The Cape
1999 Relic Hunter
2001 Tracker
2003 NCIS
2007 Painkiller Jane
Teleplay:
1987 The Oldest Rookie
1990 Hull High
1992 Covington Cross
1994 McKenna
1996 The Cape
1999 Relic Hunter
2001 Tracker
2003 NCIS
2007 Painkiller Jane
Writer:
1977 Eight Is Enough
1977 The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1987 The Oldest Rookie
1990 Hull High
1992 Covington Cross
1994 McKenna
1996 The Cape
1999 Relic Hunter
2001 24
2001 Mutant X
2001 Tracker
2003 NCIS
2007 Army Wives
2007 Painkiller Jane
2009 NCIS: Los Angeles
2011 XIII: The Series
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.