A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Born in Bolton, Lancashire to an Anglican vicar David at his public school, appeared in many school plays and produced many of them. He was directed by David Self who died in 2008. Whilst at school he wrote and directed a comedy film entitled 'The Weirdies'. He recorded many voice-overs for BBC radio as well as the narration of a Christmas story in 1973. In 1995 David successfully auditioned for a place at the prestigious Drama Studio London whose past students include Forrest Whittaker and Peter Howitt. He graduated with Distinction. Whilst at DSL David appeared as Timon in Timon of Athens on the Olivier Stage of the National Theatre in London. David's stage appearances include Higgins in Pygmalion, Gaston in Gigi and Andrew Wyke in Sleuth. His film credits include Sliding Doors and 12 in a Box. He is much in demand as both an actor and writer. He is also an accomplished after-dinner speaker. In 2000, David added the role of movie producer to his list of credits. He founded the film production company, Cracking Films, which has many movies on its slate. David is a voting member of BAFTA and a member of the English Speaking Union. David lives near London and travels extensively.
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.