A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Dennis Parker
Dennis Posa
Wade Parker
Birthplace:
Freeport, New York, USA
Born:
October 28, 1946
Died:
January 28, 1985
Dennis Posa was born in Manhattan in 1946 and grew up in Freeport, New York. After graduating in Furniture Design, he began studying acting, also in New York. In 1975 he made his first appearance in the gay porn "Boy-Napped", after which he landed several roles in straight porn productions, which he performed under the pseudonym Wade Nichols. With his other stage name, Dennis Parker, he recorded the disco album "Like an Eagle" in early 1979, which had great success in the homosexual dance scene and even charted internationally in some countries. During this time he also played the police chief Derek Mallory in the soap "Edge of the Night"; however, for health reasons he had to retire from the acting business in 1984. He died in January 1985 as a result of an AIDS-like illness.
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.