A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
David Thrasher
Birthplace:
Bristol, England, UK
Born:
December 15, 1962
David studied film at university and, as a dual national, started his career in the USA before joining the BBC. During his time at the BBC David worked on award winning music and arts, history, natural history and drama productions. He soon realised his passion lay in editing drama and left the BBC to pursue this. David has edited feature films including the award winning Swallows & Amazons and the acclaimed independent movie The Stolen along with many high profile TV dramas including Five Daughters, Witness for the Prosecution, Cider with Rosie and the Jimmy McGovern series Banished. David was asked to cut the first few BAFTA winning episodes of Call the Midwife and was pivotal to its structure. It has since gone on to be a global hit. David has also edited several short films including the Oscar shortlisted Love at First Sight (starring John Hurt and Phyllida Law) David is a member of BAFTA and has held editing Masterclasses for both BAFTA and the RTS. He has also sat on voting juries for both organisations.
Editor:
2001 Africa: The Leopards of Zanzibar
2010 Love at First Sight
2012 The Best of Men
2015 Cider with Rosie
2016 Swallows and Amazons
2017 The Stolen
Assistant Editor:
1987 The First Eden
Editor:
1987 The First Eden
1996 The Ultimate Guide
2008 Place of Execution
2010 Five Daughters
2011 Case Histories
2014 Jamaica Inn
2016 The Durrells
2021 Grace
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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.