A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Mandel is a film producer and director and television director from Oakland, California. He is best known for his film School Ties, which launched the careers of Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Cole Hauser and Chris O'Donnell. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Mandel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Director:
1980 Nights at O'Rears
1983 Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy
1983 Independence Day
1984 Welcome Home, Jellybean
1986 F/X
1986 Touch and Go
1987 Big Shots
1989 Perfect Witness
1991 The Haunted
1992 School Ties
1995 Kansas
1996 Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996 The Substitute
2000 Thin Air
2001 Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
2001 WW 3
2002 A Season on the Brink
2002 The Secret Life of Zoey
Producer:
1980 Nights at O'Rears
1983 Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy
1983 Independence Day
1984 Welcome Home, Jellybean
1986 F/X
1986 Touch and Go
1987 Big Shots
1989 Perfect Witness
1991 The Haunted
1992 School Ties
1995 Kansas
1996 Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996 The Substitute
2000 Thin Air
2001 Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
2001 WW 3
2002 A Season on the Brink
2002 The Secret Life of Zoey
Director:
1972 ABC Afterschool Special
1984 CBS Schoolbreak Special
1989 Hard Time on Planet Earth
1993 The X-Files
1996 Nash Bridges
1997 The Practice
2004 Lost
2005 Prison Break
2016 Game of Silence
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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.