A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Bill Purcell
Will A. Purcell
Will Purcell
William A. Purcell
William A. Purcell Jr
William Aaron Purcell
William O. Purcell
William Purcell Jr.
Special Effects:
1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II
1987 RoboCop
1988 Young Guns
1994 The Birds II: Land's End
1995 Heavyweights
2006 Two Tickets to Paradise
2007 Dead Heist
2025 Alarum
Special Effects Coordinator:
1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II
1986 Avenging Force
1987 RoboCop
1988 Young Guns
1990 Home Alone
1990 The Exorcist III
1994 The Birds II: Land's End
1995 Heavyweights
2001 Amy & Isabelle
2006 Two Tickets to Paradise
2007 Dead Heist
2008 The Strangers
2009 Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
2009 The Bleeding
2009 The Box
2010 The Last Song
2012 Arthur Newman
2014 The Devil's Hand
2022 Scream
2024 I.S.S.
2025 Alarum
Special Effects Supervisor:
1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II
1986 Avenging Force
1987 RoboCop
1988 Young Guns
1990 Home Alone
1990 The Exorcist III
1994 The Birds II: Land's End
1995 Heavyweights
2001 Amy & Isabelle
2006 Two Tickets to Paradise
2007 Dead Heist
2008 The Strangers
2009 Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
2009 The Bleeding
2009 The Box
2010 The Last Song
2012 Arthur Newman
2014 The Devil's Hand
2020 Words on Bathroom Walls
2022 Scream
2024 I.S.S.
2025 Alarum
Special Effects Technician:
1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II
1986 Avenging Force
1987 RoboCop
1988 Young Guns
1990 Home Alone
1990 The Exorcist III
1994 The Birds II: Land's End
1995 Heavyweights
2001 Amy & Isabelle
2006 Two Tickets to Paradise
2007 Dead Heist
2008 The Strangers
2009 Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
2009 The Bleeding
2009 The Box
2010 The Last Song
2012 Arthur Newman
2012 The Hunger Games
2014 The Devil's Hand
2020 Words on Bathroom Walls
2022 Scream
2024 I.S.S.
2025 Alarum
Stunts:
1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II
1986 Avenging Force
1987 RoboCop
1988 Young Guns
1990 Home Alone
1990 The Exorcist III
1994 The Birds II: Land's End
1995 Heavyweights
2001 Amy & Isabelle
2001 Domestic Disturbance
2006 Two Tickets to Paradise
2007 Dead Heist
2008 The Strangers
2009 Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
2009 The Bleeding
2009 The Box
2010 The Last Song
2012 Arthur Newman
2012 The Hunger Games
2014 The Devil's Hand
2020 Words on Bathroom Walls
2022 Scream
2024 I.S.S.
2025 Alarum
Special Effects Supervisor:
2013 Sleepy Hollow
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.