A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
New Zealand
John Laing is a director, producer, editor and writer from New Zealand. He directed his first feature film Beyond Reasonable Doubt in 1980. He has worked in both television and movies in New Zealand as well as in the United Kingdom and Canada.
Director:
1980 Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1983 The Lost Tribe
1984 Other Halves
1985 Dangerous Orphans
1993 Absent Without Leave
1994 Cody: Bad Love
1999 Greenstone
2000 The Shirt
2001 No One Can Hear You
2003 Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Lightning Strikers
2006 Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
2012 Safe House
2015 Abandoned
2015 Venus and Mars
2018 A War Story
Director of Photography:
1980 Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1983 The Lost Tribe
1984 Other Halves
1985 Dangerous Orphans
1993 Absent Without Leave
1994 Cody: Bad Love
1999 Greenstone
2000 The Shirt
2001 No One Can Hear You
2003 Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Lightning Strikers
2006 Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
2012 Safe House
2015 Abandoned
2015 Venus and Mars
2018 A War Story
Editor:
1976 No Way They Want to Slow Down
1980 Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1983 The Lost Tribe
1984 Other Halves
1985 Dangerous Orphans
1993 Absent Without Leave
1994 Cody: Bad Love
1999 Greenstone
2000 The Shirt
2001 No One Can Hear You
2003 Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Lightning Strikers
2006 Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
2012 Safe House
2015 Abandoned
2015 Venus and Mars
2018 A War Story
Executive Producer:
1976 No Way They Want to Slow Down
1980 Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1983 The Lost Tribe
1984 Other Halves
1985 Dangerous Orphans
1993 Absent Without Leave
1994 Cody: Bad Love
1999 Greenstone
2000 The Shirt
2001 No One Can Hear You
2003 Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Lightning Strikers
2006 Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
2012 Safe House
2013 Solo
2015 Abandoned
2015 Venus and Mars
2018 A War Story
2020 The Kid Detective
2020 The Rest of Us
2021 Castle in the Ground
2021 The Retreat
2023 My Animal
???? The Embers and the Stars
Writer:
1976 No Way They Want to Slow Down
1980 Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1983 The Lost Tribe
1984 Other Halves
1985 Dangerous Orphans
1993 Absent Without Leave
1994 Cody: Bad Love
1999 Greenstone
2000 The Shirt
2001 No One Can Hear You
2003 Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Lightning Strikers
2006 Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
2012 Safe House
2013 Solo
2015 Abandoned
2015 Venus and Mars
2018 A War Story
2020 The Kid Detective
2020 The Rest of Us
2021 Castle in the Ground
2021 The Retreat
2023 My Animal
???? The Embers and the Stars
Director:
1983 The Hitchhiker
1993 Power Rangers
1995 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
1995 Xena: Warrior Princess
2013 The Blue Rose
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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.