A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Dr. Mel White
James Melville White
James White
Rev. Mel White
Reverend Dr. Mel White
the Rev. Mel White
Birthplace:
Santa Clara, California, USA
Born:
June 26, 1940
James Melville "Mel" White (born June 26, 1940) is an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting autobiographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right, he came out as gay in 1994 and devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, also writing extensively on the subject of gay Christians. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mel White, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Author:
1988 David
Book:
1988 David
Creative Consultant:
1980 Super Christian
1988 David
2002 Family Fundamentals
Director:
1968 Charlie Churchman and the Clowns
1968 The Circus
1975 He Restoreth My Soul
1979 Deceived: The Jonestown Tragedy
1980 Super Christian
1988 David
2002 Family Fundamentals
Writer:
1968 Charlie Churchman and the Clowns
1968 The Circus
1975 He Restoreth My Soul
1979 Deceived: The Jonestown Tragedy
1980 Super Christian
1988 David
2002 Family Fundamentals
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.