A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mark Randall
Birthplace:
Melbourne, Australia
Born:
October 29, 1951
Marcus Cole began his career in 1969 as a journalist on the Melbourne Herald. Later he worked as a freelance script writer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Crawford Productions, before being accepted into the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).
Director:
1988 Computer Ghosts
1992 Tracks of Glory
1995 A Season of Hope
1995 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1995 The Christmas Box
1996 Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
1996 Timepiece
1997 A Thousand Men and a Baby
1997 Childhood Sweetheart?
1999 A Song from the Heart
1999 Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
1999 Three Secrets
2000 Yesterday's Children
2002 Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues
2002 Guilty Hearts
Second Assistant Director:
1978 Cass
1988 Computer Ghosts
1992 Tracks of Glory
1995 A Season of Hope
1995 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1995 The Christmas Box
1996 Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
1996 Timepiece
1997 A Thousand Men and a Baby
1997 Childhood Sweetheart?
1999 A Song from the Heart
1999 Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
1999 Three Secrets
2000 Yesterday's Children
2002 Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues
2002 Guilty Hearts
Director:
1986 A Fortunate Life
1986 The Flying Doctors
1987 Rafferty's Rules
1989 Dolphin Cove
1994 The Man from Snowy River
1998 All Saints
2003 Snobs
2005 Blue Water High
2006 Monarch Cove
2007 City Homicide
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.