A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Long Beach, California
The son of a Costa Rican mother and an Oregon lumberjack, Steve was born in Long Beach, California. His family moved to Cocoa Beach where he often watched the missile launches from the cape. When Universal Studios Florida opened in 1990 Steve was chosen to be one of the opening cast members: "Who ya gonna call?". Television production in Florida was busy in the early 90s and Steve guest-starred in multiple episodes of SeaQuest 2032 (1993), Pointman (1995) and Unsolved Mysteries (1987) as well as Tom Hanks' HBO award- winning mini-series From the Earth to the Moon (1998) and the USA original movie Perfect Crime (1997) with Mitzi Kapture. With the slow down of production in Florida in the late 90s, Steve became an art auctioneer, traveling around the world on cruise ships. Having quenched his wanderlust, he is acting again and now based in Los Angeles.
Art Department Manager:
1997 The People
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.