A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Bill Tannen
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Born:
August 31, 1942
Born and raised in New York City, William "Bill" Tannen graduated from Boston University and pursued a career in advertising. He created the famous "Girl Watchers" campaign for Diet Pepsi in 1967, which won four Clio Awards, and then created his own company, Sunday Productions, to produce TV commercials. Tannen moved to Los Angeles in 1972 and continued to direct commercials all over the world, garnering five more Clios in the process. Tannen directed his first feature film, "Flashpoint," in 1984, and went on to direct numerous films, TV series and music videos, the latter including the Commodore's "Night Shift" in 1985, which won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Video. Tannen has also taught director's workshops at the EICAR International Film School in Paris, France.
Director:
1984 Flashpoint
1987 Deadly Illusion
1988 Hero and the Terror
1993 Inside Edge
1994 The Goodbye Bird
1994 WindRunner
1999 Love Lies Bleeding
2004 Nobody Knows Anything!
2005 The Cutter
2006 Night Of Terror
2006 Ozzie
Executive Producer:
1984 Flashpoint
1987 Deadly Illusion
1988 Hero and the Terror
1993 Inside Edge
1994 The Goodbye Bird
1994 WindRunner
1999 Love Lies Bleeding
2004 Nobody Knows Anything!
2005 The Cutter
2006 Night Of Terror
2006 Ozzie
Writer:
1984 Flashpoint
1987 Deadly Illusion
1988 Hero and the Terror
1991 Cover-Up
1993 Inside Edge
1994 The Goodbye Bird
1994 WindRunner
1999 Love Lies Bleeding
2004 Nobody Knows Anything!
2005 The Cutter
2006 Night Of Terror
2006 Ozzie
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.