A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Tom Meehan
Birthplace:
Ossining, New York, USA
Born:
August 14, 1929
Died:
August 21, 2017
Musical:
2007 Hairspray
2016 Hairspray Live!
2017 Elf: The Musical
Novel:
1982 Annie
1995 Annie: A Royal Adventure
1999 Annie
2007 Hairspray
2014 Annie
2016 Hairspray Live!
2017 Elf: The Musical
2021 Annie Live!
Screenplay:
1982 Annie
1983 To Be or Not to Be
1987 Spaceballs
1992 A Child's Garden of Verses
1995 Annie: A Royal Adventure
1999 Annie
2005 The Producers
2007 Hairspray
2014 Annie
2016 Hairspray Live!
2017 Elf: The Musical
2021 Annie Live!
Story:
1982 Annie
1983 To Be or Not to Be
1985 One Magic Christmas
1987 Spaceballs
1992 A Child's Garden of Verses
1995 Annie: A Royal Adventure
1999 Annie
2005 The Producers
2007 Hairspray
2014 Annie
2016 Hairspray Live!
2017 Elf: The Musical
2021 Annie Live!
Teleplay:
1982 Annie
1983 To Be or Not to Be
1985 One Magic Christmas
1987 Spaceballs
1992 A Child's Garden of Verses
1995 Annie: A Royal Adventure
1999 Annie
2005 The Producers
2007 Hairspray
2014 Annie
2014 Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
2016 Hairspray Live!
2017 Elf: The Musical
2021 Annie Live!
Writer:
1970 Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
1982 Annie
1983 To Be or Not to Be
1985 One Magic Christmas
1987 Spaceballs
1992 A Child's Garden of Verses
1995 Annie: A Royal Adventure
1999 Annie
2005 The Producers
2007 Hairspray
2008 1984
2014 Annie
2014 Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
2016 Hairspray Live!
2017 Elf: The Musical
2021 Annie Live!
Creator:
2008 Spaceballs: The Animated Series
Writer:
1956 Tony Awards
1976 Ball Four
2008 Spaceballs: The Animated Series
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.