A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Benjamin Schwartz
Μπεν Σουάρτζ
벤 슈와츠
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Born:
September 15, 1981
Ben Schwartz is an American comedian. A member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, he got his start in comedy by faxing jokes to Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update and the Late Show with David Letterman. He has portrayed characters in two NBC shows, Undercovers and Parks and Recreation, made guest appearances in comedy sketches for CollegeHumor, and starred in the 2011 film Peep World. He has also been hired to write a remake of the 1991 comedy Soapdish. In addition, Schwartz has penned two books. Schwartz was nominated for the 2009 Emmy for Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Special for coauthoring Hugh Jackman's opening number for the 81st Academy Awards. He lives in The Bronx, New York.
Director:
2007 Ysketball
2008 Job Interview
2016 The Earliest Show: Outtakes & Bloopers
2023 Live Read: Back to the Future
Executive Producer:
2007 Ysketball
2008 Job Interview
2013 House of Lies Live
2016 The Earliest Show: Outtakes & Bloopers
2020 Standing Up, Falling Down
2023 Live Read: Back to the Future
Screenplay:
2007 Ysketball
2008 Job Interview
2013 House of Lies Live
2016 The Earliest Show: Outtakes & Bloopers
2020 Standing Up, Falling Down
2023 Live Read: Back to the Future
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Writer:
2006 Cheating
2007 Robot Chicken's Half-Assed Christmas Special
2007 Teddy Saw
2007 Ysketball
2008 Job Interview
2013 House of Lies Live
2016 The Earliest Show: Outtakes & Bloopers
2020 Standing Up, Falling Down
2023 Live Read: Back to the Future
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Creator:
2016 The Earliest Show
2020 Middleditch & Schwartz
Director:
2016 The Earliest Show
2020 Middleditch & Schwartz
Writer:
2008 All-Nighters
2016 The Earliest Show
2020 Middleditch & Schwartz
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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.