A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Zale Dalen, AKA David James Scott, started his career in the film business as a script writer (“Another Smith for Paradise” directed by Tom Shandell in 1972) assistant editor, soundman, editor, and sponsored/educational film director. His big break came in 1976 with the funding of his first feature film, “Skip Tracer”. Since then he has directed four more Canadian features – “The Hounds of Notre Dame”, “Terminal City Ricochet”, “Expect No Mercy”, and “Passion” – two of which are considered Canadian classics, one of which was a job of work made for the exploitation market in third world countries, and one of which, “Passion”. is a work of pure genius that remains totally unrecognized. Along the way he directed two made for TV movies – “Anything to Survive” and “On Thin Ice, the Tai Babalonia Story” – and quite a few episodes of television series like Alfred Hitchcock, Wiseguy, Scene of the Crime, Friday’s Curse, Kung Fu the Legend Continues, Beachcombers and For the Record.
Director:
1977 Skip Tracer
1980 Hounds of Notre Dame
1990 Anything to Survive
1990 On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
1990 Terminal City Ricochet
1995 Expect No Mercy
1999 Passion
Editor:
1977 Skip Tracer
1980 Hounds of Notre Dame
1990 Anything to Survive
1990 On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
1990 Terminal City Ricochet
1995 Expect No Mercy
1999 Passion
Screenplay:
1977 Skip Tracer
1980 Hounds of Notre Dame
1990 Anything to Survive
1990 On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
1990 Terminal City Ricochet
1995 Expect No Mercy
1999 Passion
Sound Recordist:
1975 Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
1977 Skip Tracer
1980 Hounds of Notre Dame
1990 Anything to Survive
1990 On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
1990 Terminal City Ricochet
1995 Expect No Mercy
1999 Passion
Director:
1984 Airwolf
1985 Danger Bay
1985 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1987 21 Jump Street
1987 Friday the 13th: The Series
1987 J.J. Starbuck
1987 Wiseguy
1991 Street Justice
1993 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
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.