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Birthplace:
Arkansas, USA
Born:
July 12, 1952
Died:
April 7, 1979
Edward O. "Stoney" Robinson was born in Arkansas, one of three sons of Otto Robinson and Faye Alexander. He was a musician, singer and songwriter and starred as the lead singer ("Kevin Tucker") of a struggling R&B music band in the independent film "Stony Island," named after that tough inner-city neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. Filmed on location in Chicago during 1977 and released in 1978, it was well received by critics and audiences at the 14th Chicago Film Festival in 1978 and the Utah/US Film Festival (forerunner to the Sundance Film Festival). However, despite enthusiastic reviews from critics and audiences, the film suffered from limited theatrical distribution and had lost visibility until its release on DVD in May 2012. Not long after the film's 1978 theatrical release, Stoney Robinson was found dead at age 26 in his home at 739 W. Belmont Avenue in Chicago. He had been preparing to go on tour the following week. The cause of death was determined to be thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare disorder of the blood-coagulation system, causing extensive microscopic clots to form in the small blood vessels throughout the body. His funeral service was held at 8 p.m. Wednesday April 11, 1979 at the Halsted Memorial Chapel (aka Banks Funeral Home), 2035 E. 79th St., with burial the following day. His survivors included his mother, Mrs. Faye Jones; his father, Otto Robinson, two brothers, Stevie and Ricky; a half brother, Harvey Jones Jr.; two half sisters, Pamela and Deloise Jones; and his stepfather, Harvey Jones. Bio credit to Neal Underwood.
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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:
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.