A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
W. Faktarovitch
Willy
Willy Gricha
Birthplace:
Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Born:
October 3, 1888
Died:
May 9, 1960
Camera Operator:
1924 Mandrin
Cinematography:
1920 The Dead who Speak
1924 Mandrin
1928 In the Shadow of the Harem
1928 La valse de l'adieu
1940 The Well-Digger's Daughter
1948 The Pretty Miller Girl
1957 She's a girl from Paris
Director of Photography:
1920 The Dead who Speak
1924 Mandrin
1927 Destin
1927 The Chess Player
1928 In the Shadow of the Harem
1928 La Venenosa
1928 La valse de l'adieu
1929 The Tournament
1931 Round of Hours
1933 Mr Poirier's Son-in-Law
1934 Angele
1934 S. S. Tenacity
1934 Ways of Love
1935 Voyage d'agrément
1936 César
1937 Harvest
1938 Heartbeat
1939 Mon oncle et mon curé
1940 Cristobal's Gold
1940 Paris-New York
1940 The Well-Digger's Daughter
1943 A Dog's Life
1948 The Pretty Miller Girl
1952 Das weiße Abenteuer
1952 Les révoltés du Danaé
1952 Manon of the Spring
1953 Ugolin
1957 She's a girl from Paris
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.