A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Colton, California, USA
Born:
January 15, 2010
Michael Eshaun York was born in Colton, California 2010 and began acting in early 2014 at age 3 when he accompanied Fatimah Hassan on a Luv's Diaper Commercial portraying her stage son. Michael began taking Martial Arts (Tae Kwon Do) Classes in 2015 at age 4. In 2016 at age 5 he begin taking Hip Hop Dance Classes with "Young Champions Dance America", and also Acting Classes with Actress/Acting Coach Betty A. Bridges whose list of clients (soon to become stars) included her oldest child, Jimmy Bridges, her daughter Verda Bridges, her son Todd Bridges , Nia Long (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Love Jones), Regina King (Jerry Maguire), Lamont Bentley (Moesha), and Aaron Meeks (Soul Food). In January of 2016 by the request of Michael's Management Company, he was sent to a TV Studio along with 3 other boys to be interviewed by Actress Regina King Director of TV show (Scandal). After meeting with her it was decided it's time for Michael to take acting classes. After researching who taught Regina King and other successful child actors, it was confirmed Betty A. Bridges Actress & Acting Coach had a high success rate in the industry with children.
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.