A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Bob Houston
Bobby Houston
Birthplace:
California
Born:
January 1, 1955
Robert "Bobby" Houston (born 1955) is an American filmmaker and actor. He made his acting debut in The Hills Have Eyes (1977) before becoming a film director and screenwriter. His films include Shogun Assassin (1980) and Bad Manners (1984). Later in his career, Houston became a successful documentarian. He won an Emmy Award for the film Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (2002) and an Academy Award for the film Mighty Times: The Children's March (2004) in 2005.
Director:
1980 Shogun Assassin
1984 Bad Manners
1989 Trust Me
1991 Caged Fear
1992 Playboy's Erotic Fantasies
1999 Little Secret
1999 Rock the Boat
2002 Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
2004 Mighty Times: The Children's March
Novel:
1980 Shogun Assassin
1984 Bad Manners
1985 A Killing Affair
1989 Trust Me
1991 Caged Fear
1992 Playboy's Erotic Fantasies
1999 Little Secret
1999 Rock the Boat
2002 Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
2004 Mighty Times: The Children's March
Screenplay:
1980 Shogun Assassin
1984 Bad Manners
1985 A Killing Affair
1989 Trust Me
1991 Caged Fear
1992 Playboy's Erotic Fantasies
1999 Little Secret
1999 Rock the Boat
2002 Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
2004 Mighty Times: The Children's March
Story:
1980 Shogun Assassin
1984 Bad Manners
1985 A Killing Affair
1989 Trust Me
1991 Caged Fear
1992 Playboy's Erotic Fantasies
1999 Little Secret
1999 Rock the Boat
2002 Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
2004 Mighty Times: The Children's March
Writer:
1980 Shogun Assassin
1984 Bad Manners
1985 A Killing Affair
1989 Trust Me
1991 Caged Fear
1992 Playboy's Erotic Fantasies
1999 Little Secret
1999 Rock the Boat
2002 Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
2004 Mighty Times: The Children's March
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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.