A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Darlene "Ka-Mook" Ecoffey
Darlene 'Ka-Mook' Nichols
Darlene Nichols-Ecoffey
Ka-Mook (Banks) Nichols
KaMook Banks
Birthplace:
Scottsbluff, Nebraska, USA
Ka-Mook Nichols is a retired Oglala Sioux Native American casting agent for the film industry. She is an activist for Indigenous women and a former member of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Nichols began informing for the FBI following the 1975 murder of her friend Anna Mae Aquash, and ultimately testified against AIM members in three criminal trials.
Extras Casting:
1991 The Dark Wind
2004 A Thief Of Time
Extras Casting Assistant:
1990 Dances with Wolves
1991 The Dark Wind
2004 A Thief Of Time
Extras Casting Coordinator:
1990 Dances with Wolves
1991 The Dark Wind
1994 Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1995 Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
1996 Crazy Horse
2002 Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West
2002 Skins
2004 A Thief Of Time
Local Casting:
1990 Dances with Wolves
1991 The Dark Wind
1994 Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1995 Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
1996 Crazy Horse
2002 Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West
2002 Skins
2004 A Thief Of Time
Location Casting:
1990 Dances with Wolves
1991 The Dark Wind
1993 Geronimo: An American Legend
1994 Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1995 Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
1996 Crazy Horse
2002 Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West
2002 Skins
2004 A Thief Of Time
Extras Casting Assistant:
1991 Son of the Morning Star
Researcher:
1991 Son of the Morning Star
1995 500 Nations
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.