Jack McCoy

Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA

Masterful surf film and video-maker from Australia; winner of the Surfer Magazine Video of the Year Award in 1996 and 1999, and widely regarded as the sport's premier cinematographer of the 1990s and early 2000s.  McCoy was born (1948) in Los Angeles, the son of a radio and TV show host, spent his early childhood in Hollywood, and moved with his family in 1954 to Hawaii, where he soon began surfing.

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Director:
1976  Tubular Swells
1980  Storm Riders
1983  Kong's Island
1990  Bunyip Dreaming
1990  Pump!
1992  The Green Iguana
1993  Sons of Fun
1995  Billabong Challenge: Jeffrey's Bay
1995  Billabong Challenge: The Mystery Left
1996  Billabong Challenge: Psychedelic Desert Groove
1997  Billabong Challenge: Alley Oop & Wide Open
1999  Billabong Challenge: Nine 9 Lives
2001  TO' Day of Days: Laird Hamilton & Friends Epic Trip to Tahiti
2003  TO' day of days
2004  Blue Horizon
2006  Free as a Dog
2011  A Deeper Shade of Blue
????  Solid: The Two Days That Teahupoo Blew Minds
????  Trade Wind: The Wavesailing FIlm

Producer:
1976  Tubular Swells
1980  Storm Riders
1983  Kong's Island
1990  Bunyip Dreaming
1990  Pump!
1992  The Green Iguana
1993  Sons of Fun
1995  Billabong Challenge: Jeffrey's Bay
1995  Billabong Challenge: The Mystery Left
1996  Billabong Challenge: Psychedelic Desert Groove
1997  Billabong Challenge: Alley Oop & Wide Open
1999  Billabong Challenge: Nine 9 Lives
2001  TO' Day of Days: Laird Hamilton & Friends Epic Trip to Tahiti
2003  TO' day of days
2004  Blue Horizon
2006  Free as a Dog
2011  A Deeper Shade of Blue
2022  The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez
????  Solid: The Two Days That Teahupoo Blew Minds
????  Trade Wind: The Wavesailing FIlm

Writer:
1976  Tubular Swells
1980  Storm Riders
1983  Kong's Island
1990  Bunyip Dreaming
1990  Pump!
1992  The Green Iguana
1993  Sons of Fun
1995  Billabong Challenge: Jeffrey's Bay
1995  Billabong Challenge: The Mystery Left
1996  Billabong Challenge: Psychedelic Desert Groove
1997  Billabong Challenge: Alley Oop & Wide Open
1999  Billabong Challenge: Nine 9 Lives
2001  TO' Day of Days: Laird Hamilton & Friends Epic Trip to Tahiti
2003  TO' day of days
2004  Blue Horizon
2006  Free as a Dog
2011  A Deeper Shade of Blue
2022  The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez
????  Solid: The Two Days That Teahupoo Blew Minds
????  Trade Wind: The Wavesailing FIlm

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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:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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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.