A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Barry Allan Onody has always had a passion for acting and entertaining, he is a natural storyteller and jokester with an ability to make everyone feel at ease. Laughter is always in the air when Barry is in the room. It surfaced in his youth where he was raised in southern Alberta, Canada. People always looked forward to seeing Barry, his early years in 4H clubs he entertained with his endless repertoire of jokes. Later into his rodeo years with his Dad the natural entertainer shown through. So, of course, he was drawn like a moth to a flame when it came to theatre arts in high school. College and on into his professional life, the acting bug kept urging him to study the craft and pursue his interest in film and television. While in Calgary attending acting classes he met his wife and trained with Judy Kerr in Los Angeles. Barry went on to have a successful career in commercials in Canada while adding in small movie roles. His priority changed for a few years, to provide for his growing family, but his fingers were always in some sort of local theatre production. Acting finally leads him to Los Angeles where he now dedicates more time pursuing his acting passion. His latest role was the lead in National Geographic's "Locked Up Abroad" series titled "Vegas Mobster" where he portrayed real-life mobster "Frank Cullotta".
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.