A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
John Sencio is a producer,actor and journalist. He was a popular VJ on MTV for four years during the mid-1990s and interviewed hundreds of celebrities for MTV News. He hosted a number of shows on MTV including Rude Awakening, which aired music videos from 6 am to 7 am. He hosted 5 seasons of Cash in the Attic and was anchor of the NBC Universal program Home Delivery. He also starred in The Army Show, a prime-time network sitcom produced by Castle Rock Entertainment for the Warner Brothers Network. He also had hosting stints on Simplify Your Life for the Fine Living Network, 48 Hour Wedding for PAX television network, and Movie Buzz for the Fox Entertainment Group. According to IMDb, he had bit parts in motion pictures as well. He is a two-time cancer survivor and motivational speaker. He's known for directing the documentary THRYVOR, about cancer survival. He makes frequent national radio appearances covering a unique combination of current events, healthy living, and pop culture.
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.