A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Born:
July 29, 1959
Gary Springer is an entertainment publicist representing film, theatre and events. His company represents independent and foreign films at festivals in the US and abroad, and for release in NY and nationally as well as serving as sales, distribution and awards consultant. He has represented or consulted on multiple film festivals in the US and internationally. Gary has represented over 25 Broadway shows, and numerous off-Broadway productions and companies. Gary's first career was as an actor with film appearances including "Dog Day Afternoon," "Jaws 2," "Small Circle of Friends" and "Law and Disorder." Gary is the international press consultant to the Monaco based International Emerging Film Talent Association. He was a founding member of The Creative Coalition and is a voting member for the Academy Awards. Gary grew up in New York, a child of the entertainment business. His mother, June was a Broadway singer, and, as Monica Lane, was a headliner for many years at the famed Latin Quarter in NYC. His father, John, was one of the leading entertainment PR representatives in the world for many years. He represented a galaxy of film, theatre and television stars including Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Randall, Paul Newman, Louise Brooks, Lillian Gish, Montgomery Clift, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Preston, Bette Davis, Liv Ullmann, Yves Montand, Sir Michael Redgrave, Lana Turner, Warren Beatty, Julie Christy, Peter O'Toole, to name just a few. He represented such films as Bonnie & Clyde, Catch 22, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Midnight Cowboy, Z, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Marlene, Tess, and many others. There were numerous Broadway productions, Special events, Film Festivals, and much more.
Associate Producer:
2000 Aberdeen
Production Assistant:
1976 Taxi Driver
2000 Aberdeen
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.