A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Born:
September 22, 1931
Died:
August 31, 2018
Ian Jones (22 September 1931 - 31 August 2018) was an Australian writer, director producer and author specialising in the history of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly and his gang. Jones had a long career in Australian television, and is best remembered for his writing and directing work at Crawford Productions on shows such as Homicide, Matlock Police, The Bluestone Boys and The Sullivans, and for Against the Wind, a highly successful mini-series, created in collaboration with an Australian writer and producer and Jones's wife, Bronwyn Binns, which explored Australia's convict past.
Writer:
1970 Ned Kelly
1987 The Lighthorsemen
Associate Producer:
1980 The Last Outlaw
Creator:
1976 Bluey
1976 The Sullivans
1980 The Last Outlaw
Director:
1964 Homicide
1969 Division 4
1976 Bluey
1976 The Sullivans
1980 The Last Outlaw
Executive Producer:
1964 Homicide
1969 Division 4
1976 Bluey
1976 The Sullivans
1978 Against the Wind
1980 The Last Outlaw
Writer:
1964 Homicide
1969 Division 4
1976 Bluey
1976 The Sullivans
1978 Against the Wind
1980 The Last Outlaw
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.