Donald E. Thorin

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Camera Operator:
1971  Minnie and Moskowitz
1975  Report to the Commissioner
1975  Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
1976  Bound for Glory
1977  Annie Hall
1978  Coming Home
1978  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1979  Walking Through the Fire
1980  The Black Marble
1981  Cutter's Way

Director of Photography:
1971  Minnie and Moskowitz
1975  Report to the Commissioner
1975  Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
1976  Bound for Glory
1977  Annie Hall
1978  Coming Home
1978  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1979  Walking Through the Fire
1980  The Black Marble
1981  Cutter's Way
1981  Thief
1982  An Officer and a Gentleman
1983  Bad Boys
1984  Against All Odds
1984  Purple Rain
1985  Mischief
1986  American Anthem
1986  The Golden Child
1986  Wildcats
1988  Midnight Run
1988  The Couch Trip
1989  Collision Course
1989  Lock Up
1989  Tango & Cash
1989  Troop Beverly Hills
1991  The Marrying Man
1992  Out on a Limb
1992  Scent of a Woman
1993  Undercover Blues
1994  Little Big League
1995  Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995  Boys on the Side
1996  The First Wives Club
1997  Nothing to Lose
1999  Dudley Do-Right
1999  Mickey Blue Eyes
2000  Shaft
2003  Head of State

Second Unit Director:
1971  Minnie and Moskowitz
1975  Report to the Commissioner
1975  Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
1976  Bound for Glory
1977  Annie Hall
1978  Coming Home
1978  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1979  Walking Through the Fire
1980  The Black Marble
1981  Cutter's Way
1981  Thief
1982  An Officer and a Gentleman
1983  Bad Boys
1984  Against All Odds
1984  Purple Rain
1985  Mischief
1986  American Anthem
1986  The Golden Child
1986  Wildcats
1988  Midnight Run
1988  The Couch Trip
1989  Collision Course
1989  Lock Up
1989  Tango & Cash
1989  Troop Beverly Hills
1991  The Marrying Man
1992  Out on a Limb
1992  Scent of a Woman
1993  Undercover Blues
1994  Little Big League
1995  Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995  Boys on the Side
1996  The First Wives Club
1997  Nothing to Lose
1999  Dudley Do-Right
1999  Mickey Blue Eyes
2000  Shaft
2003  Head of State

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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:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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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.