A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Rich Helmer
Richard Helmer
Richie Helmer
Pyrotechnician:
1996 Daylight
2003 The Core
Special Effects:
1972 Garden of the Dead
1972 Silent Running
1975 Race with the Devil
1975 The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1977 Rolling Thunder
1977 Stunts
1978 Shoot the Sun Down
1979 Tourist Trap
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1986 Jackals
1988 Necessity
1990 Chattahoochee
1996 Daylight
2003 The Core
2024 Smoke Out
Special Effects Assistant:
1972 Garden of the Dead
1972 Silent Running
1975 Race with the Devil
1975 The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1977 Rolling Thunder
1977 Stunts
1978 Shoot the Sun Down
1979 Over the Edge
1979 Tourist Trap
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1986 Jackals
1988 Necessity
1990 Chattahoochee
1996 Daylight
2003 The Core
2024 Smoke Out
Special Effects Coordinator:
1972 Garden of the Dead
1972 Silent Running
1975 Race with the Devil
1975 The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1977 Rolling Thunder
1977 Stunts
1978 Shoot the Sun Down
1979 Over the Edge
1979 Tourist Trap
1980 Alligator
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1986 Jackals
1988 Necessity
1990 Chattahoochee
1996 Daylight
1998 Sphere
2002 Clockstoppers
2003 The Core
2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2010 Burlesque
2024 Smoke Out
Special Effects Supervisor:
1972 Garden of the Dead
1972 Silent Running
1975 Race with the Devil
1975 The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1977 Rolling Thunder
1977 Stunts
1978 Shoot the Sun Down
1979 Over the Edge
1979 Tourist Trap
1980 Alligator
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1986 Jackals
1988 Necessity
1990 Chattahoochee
1991 What About Bob?
1996 Daylight
1997 Asteroid
1998 Sphere
2000 U-571
2002 Clockstoppers
2003 Path to War
2003 The Core
2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2010 Burlesque
2024 Smoke Out
Special Effects Technician:
1972 Garden of the Dead
1972 Silent Running
1975 Race with the Devil
1975 The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1977 Rolling Thunder
1977 Stunts
1978 Shoot the Sun Down
1979 Over the Edge
1979 Tourist Trap
1980 Alligator
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1986 Jackals
1988 Necessity
1990 Chattahoochee
1991 What About Bob?
1996 Daylight
1997 Asteroid
1998 Sphere
2000 U-571
2002 Clockstoppers
2003 Path to War
2003 The Core
2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2005 Zathura: A Space Adventure
2010 Burlesque
2024 Smoke Out
Visual Effects Supervisor:
1972 Garden of the Dead
1972 Silent Running
1975 Race with the Devil
1975 The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1977 Rolling Thunder
1977 Stunts
1978 Shoot the Sun Down
1979 Over the Edge
1979 Tourist Trap
1980 Alligator
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1986 Jackals
1988 Necessity
1990 Chattahoochee
1991 What About Bob?
1996 Daylight
1997 Asteroid
1998 Sphere
2000 U-571
2002 Clockstoppers
2003 Path to War
2003 The Core
2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2005 Zathura: A Space Adventure
2010 Burlesque
2024 Smoke Out
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.