A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Chris Patrick Simpson
Chris Simpson
Birthplace:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Born:
January 18, 1979
Chris was born in Canada but grew up Belfast. He began acting under the guidance of an inspirational drama teacher at secondary school who put him on the path to becoming a professional actor. On leaving school he successfully auditioned for the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, graduating in 2000. Since then he has continued to fulfill his ambition of collaborating with the best directors in film, television and theatre in projects such as the award-winning The Magdalene Sisters, (Momentum) The Boxer, (Universal) Fifty Dead Men Walking, (Brightlight Pictures) Good Vibrations, (Revolver Films) 71 (Warp Films), Shooting for Socrates (New Black Films), Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie (Universal Pictures) and most recently High Rise Directed by Ben Wheatley
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.