A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Woking, England
Born:
June 1, 1947
Ron Dennis is a renowned figure in Formula 1, best known for transforming McLaren Racing into one of the sport's most successful teams. Dennis began his motorsport career as a mechanic and quickly moved up the ranks. In 1980, he merged his own team, Project Four Racing, with McLaren, eventually becoming McLaren's team principal and CEO. Under his leadership, McLaren saw incredible success, winning numerous Constructors' and Drivers' Championships with legends like Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, and later, Mika Häkkinen and Lewis Hamilton. Dennis is credited with modernizing the team, introducing innovative technology, and setting high standards for precision and professionalism in Formula 1. Beyond racing, Dennis also expanded McLaren into a successful luxury car brand. He stepped down from McLaren in 2017 but remains an influential figure in motorsports and the automotive industry.
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.