A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Алан Платер
Алан Плятер
Birthplace:
Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Born:
April 15, 1935
Died:
June 25, 2010
Additional Dialogue:
1974 Juggernaut
In Memory Of:
1974 Juggernaut
2010 Joe Maddison's War
Screenplay:
1974 Juggernaut
1984 The Inside Man
1997 Keep the Aspidistra Flying
2004 Belonging
2010 Joe Maddison's War
Writer:
1970 Let There Be Light
1970 Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
1970 The Virgin and the Gypsy
1973 Land of Green Ginger
1974 Juggernaut
1976 It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
1976 Practical Experience
1977 Give Us a Kiss, Christabel
1977 Short Back and Sides
1978 Night People
1979 Sam's Song
1979 The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?
1980 On the Road with J.B. Priestley and The Good Companions
1981 Priest of Love
1983 Bewitched
1983 Feet Foremost
1983 The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
1983 The Intercessor
1984 The Inside Man
1985 Coming Through
1985 On Your Way, Riley!
1986 Death Is Part of the Process
1991 Misterioso
1994 Doggin' Around
1997 Keep the Aspidistra Flying
2000 The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2004 Belonging
2010 Joe Maddison's War
Adaptation:
1984 Sherlock Holmes
Creator:
1975 The Loner
1984 Sherlock Holmes
1989 Tales of Sherwood Forest
Dramaturgy:
1975 The Loner
1984 Sherlock Holmes
1989 Tales of Sherwood Forest
Screenplay:
1975 The Loner
1982 The Barchester Chronicles
1984 Sherlock Holmes
1987 Fortunes of War
1987 The Beiderbecke Tapes
1988 The Beiderbecke Connection
1989 Tales of Sherwood Forest
Writer:
1962 Z-Cars
1963 Crane
1966 Softly, Softly
1972 The Edwardians
1974 Bedtime Stories
1974 Shoulder to Shoulder
1975 The Loner
1975 The Stars Look Down
1979 Flambards
1980 Cribb
1980 The Good Companions
1981 Get Lost!
1982 The Barchester Chronicles
1984 Sherlock Holmes
1985 The Beiderbecke Affair
1987 Fortunes of War
1987 The Beiderbecke Tapes
1987 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1988 A Very British Coup
1988 The Beiderbecke Connection
1988 The Play on One
1989 Campion
1989 Tales of Sherwood Forest
1992 Maigret
1993 Frank Stubbs Promotes
1995 Oliver's Travels
1996 Dalziel & Pascoe
1997 Midsomer Murders
2007 Lewis
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.