A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Michael Cipiti hails from The Land, Cleveland, and got his start professionally at the historic Cleveland Play House. He is of Italian descent, with roots in the boot. Open to portraying a variety of roles, Cipiti still enjoys using his olive oil voice and guinea charm, which he has displayed in Gotti (Carlo Gambino) with John Travolta and Stacy Keach, Chicago Overcoat (Freddy Falzone) with Frank Vincent, The Sugar Wars, a documentary based on Cleveland mob boss Angelo Lonardo, among others. Michael has also had the pleasure of working on some national commercial spots with LeBron James. In his spare time Michael is passionate about fitness, and spends a lot of time on the water kayaking.
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.