A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Lakemba, Sydney, Australia
Born:
May 5, 1929
Died:
April 18, 1987
Kenneth Cook was an Australian journalist, television documentary maker, and novelist best known for his works Wake in Fright, which is still in print five decades after its first publication, and the humorous Killer Koala trilogy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Cook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Book:
1987 Gallagher's Travels
???? Fear Is the Rider
Novel:
1971 Wake in Fright
1987 Gallagher's Travels
???? Fear Is the Rider
Writer:
1971 Stockade
1971 Wake in Fright
1987 Gallagher's Travels
???? Fear Is the Rider
Novel:
2017 Wake in Fright
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.