A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
فاروق الدمرداش
Birthplace:
Egypt
Born:
December 19, 1943
Died:
August 7, 2014
An Egyptian journalist, translator, actor and theater director. He studied for a while at the Faculty of Commerce, then left and joined the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts. He traveled on a scientific mission in France and Britain in the early sixties. During his work in Egypt, he presented a large number of international plays on state theaters. He also presented the works of British playwright William Shakespeare in Arabic on the British Broadcasting Corporation since the seventies. He is best known for acting in several Egyptian series, including: On the Sidelines of the Prophet's Biography, Seven Faces of Truth, Falling in Sabe' Well, and Qasim Amin. He passed away in early August 2014 at the age of 81.
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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.