A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard
Birthplace:
Tilden, Nebraska, USA
Born:
March 13, 1911
Died:
January 24, 1986
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy stories, and the founder of the Church of Scientology. In 1950, Hubbard authored Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established a series of organizations to promote Dianetics. In 1952, Hubbard lost the rights to Dianetics in bankruptcy proceedings, and he subsequently founded Scientology. Thereafter Hubbard oversaw the growth of the Church of Scientology into a worldwide organization. Hubbard was cited by Smithsonian magazine as one of the 100 most significant Americans of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article L. Ron Hubbard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Book:
2010 The Problems of Work
2011 The Scientology Handbook: Tools for Life
2012 Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
Novel:
2000 Battlefield Earth
2010 The Problems of Work
2011 The Scientology Handbook: Tools for Life
2012 Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
Original Concept:
1992 Dianetics: A Visual Guidebook to the Mind
2000 Battlefield Earth
2010 The Problems of Work
2011 The Scientology Handbook: Tools for Life
2012 Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
Story:
1938 The Secret of Treasure Island
1992 Dianetics: A Visual Guidebook to the Mind
2000 Battlefield Earth
2010 The Problems of Work
2011 The Scientology Handbook: Tools for Life
2012 Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
Writer:
1938 The Secret of Treasure Island
1992 Dianetics: A Visual Guidebook to the Mind
1996 Orientation: A Scientology Information Film
2000 Battlefield Earth
2009 How to Use Dianetics
2009 The Way to Happiness
2010 The Problems of Work
2011 The Scientology Handbook: Tools for Life
2012 Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
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.