A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
James Blanco Martin
Big Jim Martin
Big Sick Ugly Jim
Faith No More
James B. Martin
James Martin
Sir James Martin
The Behemoth
Birthplace:
Oakland, California, USA
Born:
July 21, 1961
James Blanco Martin (born July 21, 1961, in Hayward, California, a suburb of Oakland), professionally known as Big Jim Martin, is an American guitarist best known for his membership in the rock band Faith No More from 1983 to late 1993. He also played guitar with the groups Agents of Misfortune, The Behemoth, The Chickenfuckers, EZ-Street, Fang, Infectious Grooves, Pigs of Death, Recluse, Spastik Children, Vicious Hatred, and Voodoocult. He was known for his long hair, bushy beard, and trademark red-rimmed glasses that he wears alone or over another darker pair of glasses.
Art Direction:
1984 Splatter University
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.