A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Gary Rhodes OBE
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
Born:
April 22, 1960
Died:
November 26, 2019
Gary Rhodes (22 April 1960 – 26 November 2019) was an English restaurateur and television chef, known for his love of British cuisine and ingredients and for his distinctive spiked hair style. He hosted shows such as MasterChef UK, MasterChef USA, Hell's Kitchen, and his own series, Rhodes Around Britain. In 2006, he competed to represent the South of England in the BBC's Great British Menu. Rhodes went on to feature in the ITV1 program Saturday Cooks, as well as the UKTV Food show Local Food Hero. He owned four restaurants and had his own line of cookware and bread mixes. He was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on June 17, 2006. Sadly, Rhodes died at the age of 59 in Dubai, UAE, on November 26, 2019.
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.