A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Esmonde and Larbey
John Gilbert Esmonde
Birthplace:
Battersea, London, England, UK
Born:
March 21, 1937
Died:
August 10, 2008
Writer:
1971 Please Sir!
1978 A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts
Creator:
1968 Please Sir!
1971 The Fenn Street Gang
1973 Bowler
1975 Get Some In!
1975 The Good Life
1977 The Other One
1981 A Fine Romance
1984 Ever Decreasing Circles
1986 Brush Strokes
1990 On the Up
1992 Mulberry
1995 Down to Earth
Writer:
1968 Please Sir!
1971 The Fenn Street Gang
1973 Bowler
1975 Get Some In!
1975 The Good Life
1977 The Other One
1981 A Fine Romance
1984 Ever Decreasing Circles
1986 Brush Strokes
1990 On the Up
1991 Hope It Rains
1992 Mulberry
1995 Down to Earth
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.