A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
The Iron Eagle
Birthplace:
Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Born:
December 3, 1977
Chris Baldyga (born Christopher Joseph Baldyga on December 3rd 1977) grew up in Fairfield, CT. Growing up, Chris wanted to be a professional wrestler and be on the radio. After graduating high school, Chris briefly went to college for mass communications before deciding to drop out and work full time. Shortly after, he discovered a professional wrestling school near his hometown and decided to sign up. It was there he developed a wrestling persona known as The Iron Eagle. The premise of the character was based off his last name sounding like bald eagle and the 80's movie Iron Eagle. The Iron Eagle's wrestling attire consisted of a flight suit, aviator glasses, and a world war like leather hat with his wrestling gear underneath. During his 12 year career as an independent professional wrestler, Chris decided to attend the CT School of Broadcasting where he learned about radio broadcasting. For 3 years, following graduation, he was a radio personality for a soft and contemporary radio station and a Board Operator for a rock station while also working for a local gym and wrestling on the independent circuit. In 2011, he was approached by a film producer about doing a documentary on his wrestling career. The short documentary was called Wrestling Dreams. In the documentary, Chris detailed his journey in professional wrestling along with his personal approach to his craft. Around this time, he befriended a young fan named Joey Ambrosini. Shortly after retiring from professional wrestling, Joey (now an actor) would ask Chris to be part of a mini series where Chris played a Major League Baseball Talent Scout. It was during this time, he discovered acting. Chris today has been part of projects ranging from, independent films to Lifetime and Hollywood movies.
Stunts:
2020 Massacre Manor
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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:
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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.