A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
William McLellan
Willie Smax
Willy Smax is the working-name of William McLellan. As a film maker, author, artist and musician Willy has directed over one hundred music videos, fifty commercials and fifteen hours of broadcast television. His written work includes numerous children's books, television programmes and a recently published memoir about the time he spent in a Spanish prison. Having gained a degree in fine art, he began a career as an illustrator. More recently Willy has shown in a number of sculpture exhibitions, and as a pensioner is about to release his first music video for the self-written track, Goodbye.
Director:
1988 Roger Waters: Radio K.A.O.S.
1995 Billy Connolly Live At Usher Hall
1997 500 Bus Stops
1998 Europigeon
2000 blur | The Best Of
2007 The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
Producer:
1988 Roger Waters: Radio K.A.O.S.
1991 Zappa's Universe
1995 Billy Connolly Live At Usher Hall
1997 500 Bus Stops
1998 Europigeon
2000 blur | The Best Of
2007 The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
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.