A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Hollywood, California, USA
Debby Porter was born in Hollywood, California, the daughter of a professional race car driver, who also owned his own auto-body shop, building custom cars. She was influenced at an early age by many celebrities associated with her father's profession, including James Dean and Steve McQueen. She was introduced to many music and movie producers, directors, and stunt coordinators. Surprisingly, it was a stunt coordinator that gave Debby her first break, where she did stunt work for the movie, North Dallas Forty (1979). During her career as a stunt woman, she has doubled such stars as: Glenn Close, Beverly D'Angelo, Suzanne Somers, Barbara Eden and Cassandra Peterson (aka "Elvira").
Stunts:
1979 North Dallas Forty
1980 The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
1981 Heartbeeps
1981 Honky Tonk Freeway
1982 Split Image
1982 The Sender
1983 Get Crazy
1983 Heart Like a Wheel
1983 Sudden Impact
1983 Two of a Kind
1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street
1985 Appointment with Fear
1985 Jagged Edge
1985 Moving Violations
1985 Real Genius
1985 Year of the Dragon
1986 Assassin
1986 Witchboard
1987 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 Laguna Heat
1987 Return to Horror High
1988 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
1988 The Blob
1988 The Dead Pool
1989 Listen to Me
1989 Lost Angels
1990 Another 48 Hrs.
1990 Pacific Heights
1990 RoboCop 2
1991 Highway to Hell
1991 Pink Lightning
1991 True Identity
1992 Love Field
1993 Freaked
1996 Sweet Evil
1997 Dante's Peak
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.