A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Al Benjamin
Production Design:
1990 Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders
1994 Double Cross
1994 Samurai Cowboy
1996 Bounty Hunters
1997 Wounded
Special Effects:
1987 American Gothic
1990 Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders
1994 Double Cross
1994 Samurai Cowboy
1995 Rumble in the Bronx
1996 Bounty Hunters
1997 Wounded
1999 A Twist of Faith
2004 Going the Distance
2004 Monster Island
2004 Snakehead Terror
2005 FBI: Negotiator
2006 Past Sins
Special Effects Coordinator:
1987 American Gothic
1990 Empire of Ash III
1990 Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders
1990 Look Who's Talking Too
1994 Double Cross
1994 Killer
1994 Samurai Cowboy
1995 Rumble in the Bronx
1996 Bounty Hunters
1996 Fall Into Darkness
1996 The Halfback of Notre Dame
1997 The Invader
1997 Wounded
1998 American Dragons
1999 A Twist of Faith
1999 Silver Wolf
1999 Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
2000 Christina's House
2000 The Wednesday Woman
2001 Children of the Corn: Revelation
2001 Lunch with Charles
2001 Strange Frequency
2001 Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2002 Liberty Stands Still
2002 Stark Raving Mad
2003 Heart of America
2003 The Lizzie McGuire Movie
2004 A Very Cool Christmas
2004 Going the Distance
2004 Monster Island
2004 Snakehead Terror
2004 The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess
2004 The Thing Below
2005 Blood Angels
2005 Bloodsuckers
2005 Criminal Intent
2005 Deck the Halls
2005 FBI: Negotiator
2005 Neverwas
2005 Stranger in My Bed
2005 The Sandlot 2
2005 Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery
2006 Civic Duty
2006 Past Sins
2006 The Accidental Witness
2006 The Suspect
2007 Beneath
2007 Destination: Infestation
2008 The Boy Next Door
2009 Ice Twisters
2010 Mother's Day
2011 Snowmageddon
2012 The Philadelphia Experiment
Special Effects Supervisor:
1987 American Gothic
1990 Empire of Ash III
1990 Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders
1990 Look Who's Talking Too
1994 Double Cross
1994 Killer
1994 Samurai Cowboy
1995 Rumble in the Bronx
1996 Bounty Hunters
1996 Fall Into Darkness
1996 The Halfback of Notre Dame
1997 The Invader
1997 Wounded
1998 American Dragons
1999 A Twist of Faith
1999 Silver Wolf
1999 Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
2000 Christina's House
2000 The Wednesday Woman
2001 Children of the Corn: Revelation
2001 Lunch with Charles
2001 Strange Frequency
2001 Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2002 Liberty Stands Still
2002 Stark Raving Mad
2003 Heart of America
2003 The Lizzie McGuire Movie
2004 A Very Cool Christmas
2004 Going the Distance
2004 Monster Island
2004 Snakehead Terror
2004 The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess
2004 The Thing Below
2005 Blood Angels
2005 Bloodsuckers
2005 Criminal Intent
2005 Deck the Halls
2005 FBI: Negotiator
2005 Neverwas
2005 Stranger in My Bed
2005 The Sandlot 2
2005 Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery
2006 Civic Duty
2006 Past Sins
2006 The Accidental Witness
2006 The Suspect
2007 Beneath
2007 Destination: Infestation
2008 The Boy Next Door
2009 Ice Twisters
2010 Mother's Day
2011 Snowmageddon
2012 The Philadelphia Experiment
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.