A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
John Simmonds
Johnny Simmons
Freelance film and television cameraman, director of photography, camera supervisor, and camera operator based in London.
Camera Operator:
1990 Faith No More: Live at the Brixton Academy
1993 Suede: Love & Poison
2008 What Is Brazil?
2010 Billy Connolly: Live in London 2010
2011 Matthew Bourne's Christmas
2012 National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2014 Billy Elliot: The Musical Live
2014 From Here To Eternity
2015 Gypsy
2016 Miss Saigon : 25th Anniversary Performance
2017 Elf: The Musical
2017 National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
2018 Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2019 The Cure - Anniversary 1978 - 2018 - Live In Hyde Park
Camera Supervisor:
1990 Faith No More: Live at the Brixton Academy
1993 Suede: Love & Poison
2008 What Is Brazil?
2010 Billy Connolly: Live in London 2010
2011 Matthew Bourne's Christmas
2012 National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2014 Billy Elliot: The Musical Live
2014 From Here To Eternity
2015 Gypsy
2016 Miss Saigon : 25th Anniversary Performance
2016 National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
2017 Elf: The Musical
2017 National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
2017 National Theatre Live: Obsession
2018 Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2019 Ruthless! The Musical
2019 The Cure - Anniversary 1978 - 2018 - Live In Hyde Park
Director of Photography:
1990 Faith No More: Live at the Brixton Academy
1993 Suede: Love & Poison
2001 Classic Albums - Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
2008 What Is Brazil?
2010 Billy Connolly: Live in London 2010
2011 Matthew Bourne's Christmas
2012 Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel - So
2012 National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2014 Billy Elliot: The Musical Live
2014 From Here To Eternity
2015 Gypsy
2016 Miss Saigon : 25th Anniversary Performance
2016 National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
2017 Elf: The Musical
2017 National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
2017 National Theatre Live: Obsession
2018 Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2019 Ruthless! The Musical
2019 The Cure - Anniversary 1978 - 2018 - Live In Hyde Park
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.