A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Don Sparks
Donald L. Sparks
Birthplace:
Hollywood, California, USA
Born:
June 26, 1961
Assistant Director:
1996 Set It Off
2011 The Help
Associate Producer:
1996 Set It Off
2005 Rebound
2008 Soul Men
2009 Janky Promoters
2011 The Help
2015 Sicario
2017 Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2018 The Equalizer 2
2019 Velvet Buzzsaw
Co-Producer:
1996 Set It Off
2005 Rebound
2008 Soul Men
2009 Janky Promoters
2011 The Help
2015 Sicario
2017 Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2018 The Equalizer 2
2019 Velvet Buzzsaw
2020 Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2021 The Little Things
2024 The Bikeriders
First Assistant Director:
1996 Set It Off
2000 Next Friday
2002 Friday After Next
2005 Are We There Yet?
2005 Rebound
2006 Glory Road
2007 Are We Done Yet?
2007 Freedom Writers
2008 Soul Men
2008 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2009 Janky Promoters
2011 The Help
2013 Prisoners
2014 The Gambler
2015 Creed
2015 Sicario
2016 Arrival
2017 Blade Runner 2049
2017 Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2018 The Equalizer 2
2019 Guava Island
2019 Velvet Buzzsaw
2020 Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2021 The Little Things
2022 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2024 The Bikeriders
Second Assistant Director:
1994 The Chase
1996 Set It Off
1998 Doctor Dolittle
1999 The General's Daughter
2000 Next Friday
2002 Friday After Next
2005 Are We There Yet?
2005 Rebound
2006 Glory Road
2007 Are We Done Yet?
2007 Freedom Writers
2008 Soul Men
2008 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2009 Janky Promoters
2011 The Help
2013 Prisoners
2014 The Gambler
2015 Creed
2015 Sicario
2016 Arrival
2017 Blade Runner 2049
2017 Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2018 The Equalizer 2
2019 Guava Island
2019 Velvet Buzzsaw
2020 Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2021 The Little Things
2022 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2024 The Bikeriders
Second Second Assistant Director:
1991 House Party 2
1994 The Chase
1996 Set It Off
1998 Doctor Dolittle
1999 The General's Daughter
2000 Next Friday
2002 Friday After Next
2005 Are We There Yet?
2005 Rebound
2006 Glory Road
2007 Are We Done Yet?
2007 Freedom Writers
2008 Soul Men
2008 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2009 Janky Promoters
2011 The Help
2013 Prisoners
2014 The Gambler
2015 Creed
2015 Sicario
2016 Arrival
2017 Blade Runner 2049
2017 Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2018 The Equalizer 2
2019 Guava Island
2019 Velvet Buzzsaw
2020 Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2021 The Little Things
2022 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2024 The Bikeriders
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.