A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
E.M. Smedley Aston
M. Smedley-Aston
Smedley Aston
Birthplace:
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
Born:
August 25, 1912
Died:
January 23, 2006
Assistant Director:
1937 Double Exposures
1937 It's Never Too Late to Mend
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Associate Producer:
1937 Double Exposures
1937 It's Never Too Late to Mend
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1950 The Happiest Days of Your Life
1954 The Million Pound Note
1955 The Constant Husband
1963 The Wrong Arm of the Law
First Assistant Director:
1937 Double Exposures
1937 It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937 The Ticket of Leave Man
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1950 The Happiest Days of Your Life
1954 The Million Pound Note
1955 The Constant Husband
1963 The Wrong Arm of the Law
Producer:
1937 Double Exposures
1937 It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937 The Ticket of Leave Man
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1950 The Happiest Days of Your Life
1954 The Million Pound Note
1955 The Constant Husband
1957 Strangers' Meeting
1958 Another Time, Another Place
1960 Life Is a Circus
1960 Two Way Stretch
1961 Offbeat
1962 Two Letter Alibi
1963 The Wrong Arm of the Law
1964 Strictly for the Birds
1967 Theatre of Death
1969 Arthur? Arthur!
1972 Ooh... You Are Awful
Production Manager:
1937 Double Exposures
1937 It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937 The Ticket of Leave Man
1937 Under a Cloud
1938 John Halifax
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1947 Captain Boycott
1949 The Spider and the Fly
1950 The Happiest Days of Your Life
1954 The Million Pound Note
1955 The Constant Husband
1957 Strangers' Meeting
1958 Another Time, Another Place
1960 Life Is a Circus
1960 Two Way Stretch
1961 Offbeat
1962 Two Letter Alibi
1963 The Wrong Arm of the Law
1964 Strictly for the Birds
1967 Theatre of Death
1969 Arthur? Arthur!
1972 Ooh... You Are Awful
Production Supervisor:
1937 Double Exposures
1937 It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937 The Ticket of Leave Man
1937 Under a Cloud
1938 John Halifax
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1947 Captain Boycott
1949 The Spider and the Fly
1950 The Happiest Days of Your Life
1951 The Galloping Major
1952 So Little Time
1954 The Million Pound Note
1955 The Constant Husband
1957 Strangers' Meeting
1958 Another Time, Another Place
1960 Life Is a Circus
1960 Two Way Stretch
1961 Offbeat
1962 Two Letter Alibi
1963 The Wrong Arm of the Law
1964 Strictly for the Birds
1967 Theatre of Death
1969 Arthur? Arthur!
1972 Ooh... You Are Awful
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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:
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.