A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Erik Ludovicus Maria Van Looy
Birthplace:
Deurne, Belgium
Born:
April 26, 1962
Erik Van Looy was born on April 26, 1962 in Deurne, Flanders, Belgium as Erik Ludovicus Maria Van Looy. He is a director and a writer, known for the classic Belgian films, De Zaak Alzheimer/The Memory of a Killer (2003) and Loft (2008). He's also directed the US-remake of The Loft (2014). Between writing and directing movies, he is the host of De Slimste Mens Ter Wereld/The Smartest Person in the World, a hugely successful game show on Belgian TV.
Director:
1991 Yuppies
1993 Ad Fundum
1999 Shades
2003 The Memory of a Killer
2008 Loft
2014 The Loft
2016 The Prime Minister
Scenario Writer:
1991 Yuppies
1993 Ad Fundum
1999 Shades
2003 The Memory of a Killer
2008 Loft
2014 The Loft
2016 The Prime Minister
Screenplay:
1991 Yuppies
1993 Ad Fundum
1999 Shades
2003 The Memory of a Killer
2008 Loft
2009 Dossier K.
2014 The Loft
2016 The Prime Minister
Writer:
1991 Yuppies
1993 Ad Fundum
1999 Shades
2003 The Memory of a Killer
2008 Loft
2009 Dossier K.
2014 The Loft
2016 The Prime Minister
Creator:
2004 De zaak Alzheimer
2012 Dossier K.
Director:
1998 De Mol
2004 De zaak Alzheimer
2012 Dossier K.
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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.