A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Ireland
Simon taught English in Kent and China before training as an actor. He has been living and working in Ireland for the last thirteen years. Theatre work includes: Pride and Prejudice, An Ideal Husband, The Vortex (Gate Theatre); A Doll’s House, Hamlet, (Second Age); The Picture of Dorian Grey (Winterland); King Lear (C Company); Peter Pan (Pavillion Theatre); Macbeth, Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, A Doll’s House, The Cherry Orchard (Salisbury Playhouse); Outward Bound, Kind Hearts and Coronets (Watford Palace); Wild Honey, Betrayal (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Murder in the Cathedral, Moby Dick, The Tempest (RSC). Film and Television work includes: The Professor and the Madman (Christchurch Prods); The Witness (WFM Film and TV); 37 Days, Line of Duty II, Wodehouse in Exile, Murphy’s Law, Inspector George Gently, Eastenders, Our Friends in the North (BBC); Foyles War VIII (ITV); Vikings (VK Prods); The Tudors III (HS Prods); The Clinic (RTE); Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Heartbeat (YTV).
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.