Mike Benson

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Alias:
Michael A. Benson
Michael Alan Benson
Michael Benson

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"A" Camera Operator:
1991  Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Additional Photography:
1991  Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1999  The Bone Collector

Camera Operator:
1977  The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1979  The Champ
1985  Love Lives On
1985  Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1985  Vision Quest
1987  Beverly Hills Cop II
1987  No Way Out
1988  Alien Nation
1989  The Karate Kid Part III
1990  3 Men and a Little Lady
1990  Ghost
1991  Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991  White Fang
1992  White Men Can't Jump
1999  The Bone Collector

Director of Photography:
1977  The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1979  The Champ
1985  Love Lives On
1985  Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1985  Vision Quest
1987  Beverly Hills Cop II
1987  No Way Out
1988  Alien Nation
1989  The Karate Kid Part III
1990  3 Men and a Little Lady
1990  Ghost
1991  Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991  White Fang
1992  White Men Can't Jump
1999  The Bone Collector
1999  Universal Soldier: The Return

Drone Operator:
1977  The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1979  The Champ
1985  Love Lives On
1985  Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1985  Vision Quest
1987  Beverly Hills Cop II
1987  No Way Out
1988  Alien Nation
1989  The Karate Kid Part III
1990  3 Men and a Little Lady
1990  Ghost
1991  Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991  White Fang
1992  White Men Can't Jump
1999  The Bone Collector
1999  Universal Soldier: The Return
2015  I Pity the Tool

Second Unit Director of Photography:
1977  The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1979  The Champ
1985  Love Lives On
1985  Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1985  Vision Quest
1987  Beverly Hills Cop II
1987  No Way Out
1988  Alien Nation
1989  The Karate Kid Part III
1990  3 Men and a Little Lady
1990  Ghost
1991  Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991  White Fang
1992  White Men Can't Jump
1993  Beethoven's 2nd
1996  Broken Arrow
1996  Eraser
1998  Rush Hour
1999  The Bone Collector
1999  Universal Soldier: The Return
1999  Virus
2001  The Score
2015  I Pity the Tool

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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.