A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Born:
September 14, 1963
Born in Los Angeles, California in 1963, Tony Becker is the son of Pasadena Playhouse alumni Kenneth Becker and Patti Kane . Tony's dad had the first on-screen fight with Elvis Presley in Loving You (1957) and his mom was Sandra Dee's best friend in the original Gidget (1959) . Becker's first TV role as Mark Hamill's little brother on Mary Tyler Moore Production's "The Texas Wheelers" was the beginning of a long list of recurring roles on "Little House on the Prairie," The Waltons," "The Oregon Trail" and others. As an adult, Tony has appeared as a principal actor in the TV series "For Love an Honor" and "Tour of Duty" and guest-starred in several series and Movies of the Week. Tony's love of the outdoors has also put him behind the camera as a producer, writer, and director of a travel and adventure 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.