A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Hayward - California - USA
Born:
March 29, 1966
An actor, writer, and musician from the San Francisco Bay Area, Brian won the UK's Royal Television Society "Best Main Title Theme" Award for his lyrical composition work in "Playing It Straight", the UK's hit musical reality program, for which he wrote and produced 30 songs on location, performing them live on-set. After completing the National Tour of "Les Miserables", he moved to Los Angeles where he created a diverse career including voice overs, TV and Film, music direction, writing and composing. Brian has been seen playing a Broadway Axl Rose in Andy Prieboy's cult favorite "White Trash Wins Lotto" at PS 122 in NYC, the world famous Roxy on The Sunset Strip, and as the featured musical guest on "The Conan O'Brien Show". Other theatre credits include: the West Coast Premiere of "Elegies", "When Pigs Fly", "Pageant", "The Last Hairdresser", "Naked Boys Singing", and the insane 35-character one-man show "Fully Committed". He is shopping his scripted comedy "McCracken Live!", feature film "Rewrite", and his arsenal of reality shows.
Executive Producer:
2016 Acting Dead
Writer:
2016 Acting Dead
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.