A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Born:
December 20, 1949
Died:
April 5, 2009
Director:
1983 Profile of a Writer: Borges
1986 Brick Is Beautiful
1987 Land
1987 The Magic Toyshop
1988 Starlings
1989 The Fifteen Streets
1990 The March
1991 Journey to Knock
1991 Prince
1992 Hostages
1994 Nobody's Children
1996 The Girl
1998 Imogen's Face
1999 The Mystery of Men
Idea:
1983 Profile of a Writer: Borges
1986 Brick Is Beautiful
1987 Land
1987 The Magic Toyshop
1988 Starlings
1989 The Fifteen Streets
1990 The March
1991 Journey to Knock
1991 Prince
1992 Hostages
1994 Nobody's Children
1996 The Girl
1997 King Leek
1998 Imogen's Face
1999 The Mystery of Men
Director:
1986 ScreenPlay
1996 Dalziel & Pascoe
1996 The Tide of Life
1997 The Rag Nymph
1997 The Wingless Bird
2000 Fat Friends
2000 Monsignor Renard
2000 Starhunter
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.